New U2 album leaks

'No Line On The Horizon' the new album from U2 leaked out into the blogsphere today.
Most links were very quickly removed but it is still available in a torrent of places, if you know where to look!

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Ed Kuepper joins The Bad Seeds

Ed Kuepper-ATP Mt Buller
(Photo by TimN)

Press Release:
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS announce the first of a string of summer festival appearances.
The band, featuring Ed Kuepper on guitar, will headline at German festivals Southside (Neuhausen Ob Eck) and Hurricane (Scheesel) in June, and at Oxegen Festival in Ireland on 11th July 2009.
Kuepper, formerly of Australian bands The Saints and Laughing Clowns, completes the current Bad Seeds live line up of Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Conway Savage.
Kuepper has been, and continues to be, a significant influence on contemporary Australian music. He formed the original version of the proto punk band The Saints in 1973 whilst in high school and when the original Saints split he formed what, in the eyes of many, was an even bolder enterprise - Laughing Clowns.
The Clowns broke up in 1984 and Kuepper launched a prolific solo career which has seen the release of more than 20 albums and several film and soundtrack projects. His latest studio recording was 'Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog' in 2007
This full schedule of festival dates promises to include some of the best and most exciting festivals that Europe and the British Isles have to offer. More very soon.

More from 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' here.

Leonard Cohen 'Live In London' O2 Arena: July 17, 2008 CD/DVD

Photograph: Domenech Castello/EPA

Live in London:

Disc one:

01 Dance Me to the End of Love
02 The Future
03 Ain't No Cure for Love
04 Bird on the Wire
05 Everybody Knows
06 In My Secret Life
07 Who By Fire
08 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
09 Anthem
10 Introduction
11 Tower Of Song
12 Suzanne
13 The Gypsy's Wife

Disc two:

01 Boogie Street
02 Hallelujah
03 Democracy
04 I'm Your Man
05 Recitation w/ N.L.
06 Take This Waltz
07 So Long, Marianne
08 First We Take Manhattan
09 Sisters of Mercy
10 If It Be Your Will
11 Closing Time
12 I Tried to Leave You
13 Wither Thou Goest

Details from 'Pitchfork' here.
'Uncut' review of the gig here.
'Suzanne' - 'Amazon' exclusive video here.

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For Fucoid.
'Lullaby Bear'

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Not so subliminal sex

Subliminal 'Silence of the Lambs'

Dali skulls

My/our Wilco 'T' shirt(s) - a skull segue

Available here.
(So good that all members of my clan have one.
Though son # 1 bought his over in Scotland when Wilco and him found themselves in Glasgow at the same time. The rest of us had to wait until Wilco played in Melbourne last year)

Bye bye apocalypse!

From the 'creativeboysclub' @ Flckr here.
(Via 'thisisn'thappiness'.)

Emmylou Harris & Elvis Costello - Love Hurts (Live Letterman Show)

Go here to watch video of 'Sin City' performed by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris live in 1973.

Previously:
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - 'Streets of Baltimore' live 1973 here. (Video)
Keith Richards & Norah Jones - 'Love Hurts' here. (Video)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - 'Christine's Tune' here. (Video)

The Flying Burrito Brothers - 'Live at The Palomino 1969' here. (Audio)

For Grazyna & Tricia.
Check comments for extra special, special bonus.

Some very thirsty koalas out there

Bear in mind (sorry) that koalas normally get all the liquid they need from the eating of eucalyptus leaves.

Bill Laswell/Axiom Sound System - Musical Freezone

(Thanx to Sinziana)

émission soundstage, 13/07/2006

Bill Laswell, bass
Zakir Hussain, tablas
Ustad Sultan Khan, vocals, sarangui
DJ disk
Karsh Kale, drums
Nils Petter Molvaer, trumpet
???, keyboards