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Electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin will re-emerge from a two-year, self-imposed retirement this autumn, when he releases a sprawling two-disc set to be titled Drukqz. Due in October on the Warp Records label, the album – which hasn’t been given an official release date yet – boasts thirty tracks of new material. The epic release marks the first full-length recording from Aphex Twin since 1996’s acclaimed acid jungle exercise, Richard D. James Album, a set titled after his birth name. Mastered in London last week, the hotly anticipated project marks the return of a man that many credit for expanding… Read more »

Jane’s Addiction are finalizing plans for a summer reunion tour, which looks to be part of a roving festival frontman Perry Farrell is organizing. “We’re going to be taking out a show. It’s probably going to have different influences coming together and creating an ensemble,” Jane’s guitarist Dave Navarro said, “more like a traveling circus – whereas in most circuses there isn’t much of a headliner, but there’s a lot of things. Some people like the trapeze. Some people like the clowns.” Management for Jane’s Addiction said the band might also tour separately from the festival, which has taken on… Read more »

Following much hemming and boatload of hawing, all is set in stone for Weezer’s many-moons-in-the-making third album. Produced by Ric Ocasek, The Green Album will drop as planned on May 15th, it’s cover art closely resembling that of the band’s eponymous debut (lovingly called “The Blue Album”) – a picture of the foursome against a solid backdrop. The nod to their 1994 nerd-core breakthrough is no doubt intentional, a clear signal that Rivers Cuomo and Co. have returned, at least in part, to the signature neo-New Wave sound somewhat absent from 1996’s poorer-selling second album, Pinkerton. According to a posting… Read more »