The Last Shadow Puppets have confirmed details of their first major live performance. Arctic Monkeys ' star Alex Turner and Miles Kane from The Rascals are set to play the Reading and Leeds Festivals this summer, they have announced.
Here's a rundown of what's available online and in record stores this week. Click each album title to read Spin 's review: The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age of the Understatement : Arctic Monkeys whiz kid conducts a dramatic makeover. No Age, Nouns : Punk passion to the power of two. Matmos, Supreme Balloon : A killer set of sonic punch lines from blip-blop raconteurs.
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Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner is leading the nominations at the Mojo Magazine Awards - with his original band and his side project The Last Shadow Puppets receiving nods in two categories apiece.
ARCTIC MONKEYS frontman ALEX TURNER is leading the nominations at Britain's Mojo Magazine Awards - with his original band and his side project THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
What? : Channeling their mutual admiration for studio savant and lush orchestral pioneer Scott Walker, the two Brit sensations of the Last Shadow Puppets -- Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and the Rascals' Miles Kane -- hit France’s Black Box studio last year with Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford on production and drum duties.
The nominations were announced today (April 29) for the MOJO Honours List 2008 and Alex Turner has secured four nominations for both Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets reports XFM.co.uk.
Originally planned as just a vinyl and digital download but now seeing release as a CD, Momofuku stands apart from all recent Elvis Costello by not being a conceptual project but rather a collection of songs.