World Class Rock Week-In-Review: 8/10/16

by Brad | Aug 10, 2016 | The WTTS Blog

U2

• U2 confirm release of new album, Songs of Experience, and world tour (CoS)
• Adele is reportedly in talks to headline the Super Bowl in 2017 (NME)
• Bob Weir announces new tour and solo album, Blue Mountain (UCR)
• Bon Iver will reportedly debut their new album live on Friday (Spin)
• Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock fell asleep driving and caused a 5-car pileup (A.V. Club)
• Gregg Allman cancels tour dates due to health issues (Paste)
• Vampire Weekend’s Rostam shares new song “Gwan” (Pitchfork)
• Hear Jeff Tweedy’s interpretation of Carl Sandburg poem (Rolling Stone)
• Blues Traveler’s John Popper undergoes emergency spine surgery (CoS)
• Alt-J’s Thom Sonny Green issues update on band’s third album (NME)
• Eric Clapton announces new concert recording, Live in San Diego (UCR)
• Deerhunter will be touring North America this October (Spin)
• Watch Chris Martin cover Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets Of Philadelphia” (Stereogum)
• Green Day to return with a “Bang, Bang” on Aug. 11 (Paste)
• War on Drugs’ Anthony LaMarca selling vintage Fender Jaguar for charity (Pitchfork)
• Pete Townshend preps 1986 live DVD featuring David Gilmour (Rolling Stone)
• Producer Butch Vig credits Dave Grohl’s drumming for Nevermind sound (CoS)
• Prince estate denies plans to sell his Paisley Park home (NME)
• Soundgarden just released an EDM remix of “Spoonman” (Spin)
• Ringo Starr says he voted in favor of Brexit (UCR)
• Conor Oberst announces new solo album (A.V. Club)
• David Bowie, Anohni, Radiohead among nominees for 2016 Mercury Prize (Paste)
• Watch Beach House’s interview and performance on Charlie Rose (Pitchfork)
• Sufjan Stevens covers Prince’s “Kiss” with Moses Sumney (CoS)
• Led Zeppelin cannot recoup their legal fees from “Stairway To Heaven” trial (NME)
• There’s a Ska version of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (Spin)
• Peter Gabriel combines and expands previously released Live DVDs (UCR)
• Watch Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis shred with Pearl Jam in Boston (Stereogum)
• Superduo Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam release single, “In a Black Out” (Paste)
• Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop share new song, Eurythmics cover (Pitchfork)
• Peter Hook pens massive New Order-era autobiography (Rolling Stone)
• Eddie Vedder covers The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” (CoS)
• The Strokes’ Nick Valensi is in a new band called CRX (Paste)
• Chvrches share interactive 360° studio tour (Pitchfork)
• Jerry Garcia Foundation donates artwork for birthday month (Rolling Stone)

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