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Queens of the Stone Age have finished recording their new album

New Queens of the Stone Age album due in June

The band presented one of their new songs "My God is the Sun" to the public at the Lollapalooza Brazil festival in Sao Paulo. ...Like Clockwork will be Queens of the Stone Age's sixth studio album. Although Dave Grohl took over on drums during the recording of the album, the band's future shows will feature drummer John Theodore of The Mars Volta. Queens of the Stone Age's previous album, Era Vulgaris, was released in 2007.

Manic Street Preachers are recording their new album in Berlin

According to the band, they have just recorded another song titled "Four Lonely Roads" featuring Kate Le Bon, a singer from Manic Street Preachers' home of Wales. "Berlin inspires us," the message also says. The band began work on the album in September last year. The new, eleventh Manic Street Preachers album is due out in November.

Paul McCartney Reveals He Wanted To Arrange "Yesterday" With Electronic Instruments

According to McCartney, he decided to record an electronic instrumentation part for his new song, and turned to Delia Derbyshire from the Radiophonic Workshop of the BBC radio station. “I found out where Miss Derbyshire lives and came to visit her. We went down to her small garden, and went into a small house. It was filled with tape recorders and very funny electronic instruments. Back then we had already recorded the song with a string quartet, but I wanted to add some electronic instruments to it in the background. I was amazed and still am amazed by everything that was connected with the "Radiophonic Workshop". I was just fascinated by it,” said Paul McCartney. Delia Derbyshire, one of the pioneers of electronic music, was already considered a cult figure back then. She left the world in 2001.

John Lennon's letter to Paul and Linda McCartney to be auctioned

The letter, written by John Lennon in 1971, some time after the breakup of The Beatles, will be part of an online auction on May 30. The initial price of the lot will be about $60,000. To date, there are no details about the contents of the letter.

Zemfira and Yuri Shevchuk will give a big joint concert for the first time

The concert will take place on June 12 in the city of Ufa, on the birthday of the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The performance, lasting at least three hours, will take place at the Akbuzat hippodrome. “Zemfira and I agreed to do a joint concert on the birthday of our city. Everything will be very serious. The technical equipment of the concert will be unprecedented for Ufa, we are dragging 70 tons of equipment there. This is our gift to all residents of the city. We will try to make tickets for the concert as cheap as possible,” said Yuri Shevchuk. The initial cost of tickets for the concert, which will end with fireworks, will be 600 rubles. Part of the proceeds will be transferred to the account of the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital.

Oleg Skrypka will become the host of his own program on Ukrainian television

The leader of the “Vopli Vidoplyasova” group is going to invite a variety of people to visit him, and, of course, he will ask them a variety of questions, including the most uncomfortable ones. It is not yet known on which TV channel the author's program of the musician will be released, but he himself has already begun work on its first release.