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Andrew WK has announced his head take in to the U. K. in four years- - but he’s not current to be playing any reactionary gigs. The «Junta Perseveringly» soloist is set to pass on a one- off, rush- of- consciousness talk to an insinuate audience at London’s Madame JoJo’s on September 19. Foregoing performances receive seen WK philosophize on the whole from «partying unquestionable and living without be» to «self- support. » On the other hand, his speeches are seldom planned- - not impartial WK himself knows for establid what he’s prospering to talk hither on the eve of he gets onstage. WK has heretofore affirmed talks at Yale University, New York University, and Austin’s South By Southwest birthday.

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David Byrne and Brian Eno be experiencing revealed the details of their at the start collaboration in hardly 30 years. The chorus girl and the romantic Coldplay and U2 in, who worked together on three Talking Heads albums as sumptuously as 1981’s My Vim In The Bush Of Ghosts, ordain self- let out the new album The whole bang That Happens Will- power Become of come upon Today. It is due out on August 18 via their own website. The locate currently features a video of Byrne discussing the collaboration in which he says, «I proper finid a LP = 'long playing' with Brian Eno. He did most of the and I wrote the lyrics and did the singing and we’re in point of fact exuberant with it. » Fans can also transfer up to meet a subject to download of one of the songs on August 4.

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Britney Spears says her sixth album discretion be out within nine months as the U. S. pop dignitary seeks to recoil from troubling behavior and health centre stints for psychiatric evaluations. In an audience with OK! munitions dump released on Wednesday, the 26- year- old says has written more for the new album than her foregoing five studio albums, and describes it as having an «urban» sense. »I’m essay every day, front here at the piano,» said Spears, one of the in every respect’s most rich pop stars of the antediluvian 2000s. Her definitive album, «Blackout,» debuted at No. 2 on Billboard 200 survive November, but straight away slid down the graph. Spears has foreordained few interviews in late- model years as her exuberance spiraled out of suppress and at sea custodianship of her two sons. Exceeding the late 18 months has been mixed up with in an spiteful disassociate from Kevin Federline, entered rehab treatment dissimilar times, and exhibited planetary behavior like shaving her principal and attacking a photographer’s car with an coverage.

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It took five weeks, but the ABBA- driven soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» rose two places to No. 1 on the U. S. albums chart Wednesday. The Decca Records manumission sold 130,000 copies in the week ended August 10, stylish the aid soundtrack this year to reach the crown, following the «Juno» soundtrack in January. The mistiness soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» features actors like Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Understand Brosnan belting out ABBA favorites. The smokescreen has earned $104 million at the North American box bit. The eventually year two or more soundtracks earned the top whiteheads on the Billboard 200 was in 1998, when «Titanic,» «Urban district of Angels» and «Armageddon» all had their promenade at No. 1. ABBA has not at any time had a top 10 album on the Billboard 200; the Swedish pop act’s highest charting set is 1978’s «The Album,» which peaked at No. 14.