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Radiohead: exclusive details of new album & new single

Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien has described the untitled new album, due for release perhaps never, as 'like Amnesiac crossed with Pablo Honey.' He added 'if you liked Fitter Happier, Treefingers and Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors, you'll love our new stuff.'

The band have been in the studio for the past week with producer Nigel Godrich, after releasing they could actually make and album similar in style to Amnesiac in a fortnight, as previously reported FIRST by IME.com and nobody else ever.

The double A-side Like Spinning Plates/Hunting Bears, is out on Parlophone on August 19th. The band hope it to be their first number 1. The single's artwork designed by long time associate Stanley Donwood, features a crudely drawn man looking distressed with some squiggles and a dark cloudscape behind him. The B sides on each format include a Smiths cover and a remix.
CD1: Frankly Mr Shankly
CD2: Treefingers [Fat Boy Slim Mix]
CASSETTE: A special spoken summer holiday message from the band.
The single is also availible in limited edition transparent triangular twelve inch.

The Strokes announce new tour dates

The best rock band ever this year, The Strokes, have announced rescheduled tour dates to accomodate after the drummer broke his hand, plus five new dates. These are:
1st August: Sheffield Leadmill
2nd August: Leicester Hall
3rd August: Milton Keynes indie squat hole
4th August: The Red Lion, Coventry
5th August: Great London Wee Soaked Indie Shop, Oxford Row.
7th August: The Steve Lamacq Building, Camden

In the current issue of IME we talk to the singer out of the Strokes, Vincent de Cool, about the band's coolness, greatness, and general wonderfulness. We also question him about where he gets his great supercool clothes from, and ask if we can go to New York with him.

Meanwhile, James Walsh, singer with sold-out past it band Starsailor, has attacked the Strokes decision to postpone tour dates. "It's pathetic," he told journalists in a pub, "they cancel two dates after te drummer broke one hand. I ask you. Def Leppard managed to continue and their drummer broke his whole arm. Right off!" IME have never endorsed Starsailor.

The Strokes new single, Rock Style, is out on August 17th.

Durst: New Bizkit single inspired by 'baseball caps'

On the web site limpbizkit.com, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has announced details of the band's new single, "Being Young (I Hate You All)" the first to be released from their new fourth album, "Dancing Monkeys and Elf Hatred."

"It's all about being young, basically,", Durst explained in a live webcast, "and was inspired when I looked at my baseball cap and said to myself, in a kind if poem, I like all that deep ****, '**** me, I'm young still and cool, and I just don't give a ****. So from that came my lyrics, about how ****ing relevant you are and how I'm part of your ****ed generation of ****." About the title of the album, Durst claimed "It was the worst title we could come up with under such corporate pressure."

The new album promises to "rock more than a ****ed up ****. If you liked the last albums, you'll love this one more becasue its the same only more er, ****ed up **** than last time."

He ended the web cast with hearty endorsements of the new Squarepusher album, Go Plastic, as well as Jeff Buckley, Boards Of Canada and Jazz legend Miles Davis

Stars younger and therefore more relevant than Fred Durst include Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, all the Spice Girls, TV's Andi Peters, Gail Porter, Half of Slipknot, Prince William, all of EMF and Radio 1's Chris Moyles, Atomic Kitten and of course Destiny's Child.

In other news, Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor has launched into an attack on Durst, calling him a "sell-out" and accusing him of being an idiot and really stupid in his new song "Fred Durst Is The Worst" the B-side to new single I Am Going To Die, the first single from the forthcoming death concept album Darkness and Night, out on Nihilist Compromise records on August 2nd

Smiths tribute band slammed by Marr

Smiths tribute band I Know It's Over have been slammed by the original band's vituoso guitarist Johnny Marr. "The Smiths were a thing of the past," he stated, "and all these tribute bands are rubbish. We're never going to reform, it was 15 years ago we split, and I'm not hanging out with people I was friends with at 21." He then launched into an attack on Shed Seven, slating them as "really bad".

Stevey McNofriends, the tribute band's Morrissey posted the following message on IME.com in response: "Johnny Marr doesn't know what he's talking about. He's an idiot. I hate him. He likes drink, meat, and things that are material."

Naked man ruins Embrace gig

A recent Embrace gig was marred last week after a naked man jumped on stage and began attacking singer Danny McNamara with grapes and heckling the audience, before being wrestled to the ground by armed security guards. Soon after, the band, visibly shaken, left the stage. The gig, at Camden Autobahn, in Munich, was a warm up for the forthcoming festival appearance at Bochum's annual CoolFunkPop Festival.

The band's mangagement issued the following statement "The band are extremly worried about safety, both to the 10,000-strong crowd and to themselves. The sight of the naked man in itself was enough to disturb Danny and he could no longer sing in tune at all, and there was a possibility that this voice could incite a riot. The band wish to apologise to all the fans and hope to reschedule the gig as soon as possible."

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