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Pink Floyd’s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon is celebrating its 50th anniversary in March, and a new book is being released to commemorate the occasion.

The album-sized book The Dark Side Of The Moon will feature 129 rare and unseen backstage and onstage photographs shot between 1972 and 1975, while the band was touring the album. Photographers contributing to the book include Storm Thorgerson, Jill Furmanovsky, Aubrey Powell, Storm Thorgerson and Peter Christopherson.

The book will also include U.K. rock writer Chris Charlesworth’s Melody Maker review of the band’s 1972 Wembley show, plus a complete list of Dark Side of the Moon tour dates. It will also delve into how the album’s iconic artwork was created.

Published by Thames and Hudson, the book is set to be released March 7 in the U.S., just a few days after the actual 50th anniversary of the album’s release. Fans can preorder it here.

Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon on March 1, 1973. It has gone on to be the band’s most commercially successful album, having been certified 15-times Platinum. In 2012 it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.

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The Chainsmokers‘ Alex Pall opened up about a toxic relationship that once made him question his sanity.

Speaking to the Call Her Daddy podcast, Alex recalled a time when he was seeing a girl who would start fights with him and then disappear for days.

“All of these fights kept happening that I didn’t really, like, understand why,” he explained without dropping any names. “I would just get a text while on tour, like, ‘You’re a f***king a**hole,’ and I’d be, like, ‘I don’t know what I could have possibly have just done.’ And it’d be like, ‘You know what you did.'”

He added he would ask what he did wrong, but would be met with radio silence. “She would, like, disappear for two days,” said Alex, adding that he now knows the relationship was unhealthy because it made him feel like he was losing his mind.

Even though his family and friends “didn’t like her at this point,” he admits he kept hanging on because he’s an optimist who kept hoping for the best.

Things changed when he began suspecting his girlfriend had bugged the house because she would confront him about conversations he had when she wasn’t there.

Alex realized his ex had been spying on him for seven months using a motion-sensor pet camera he got for his dog. “I get up close to it and she had blacked out the recording light with a marker and then covered it with an additional piece of electrical tape, perfectly cut out,” he described. 

Alex said he wanted “to be single and have fun” by that point, so he walked away from the relationship.

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Over a decade after he “Woke Up in a Car” with Something Corporate, Andrew McMahon is getting back behind the wheel for his latest Wilderness song.

The track is titled “Lying on the Hood of Your Car,” and you can listen to it now via digital outlets. Its accompanying video is streaming now on YouTube.

“For me, this song is pure nostalgia,” McMahon says. “I made a conscious decision when I was writing it to imagine a whole world of important figures in my life lying next to me on the hood of that imagined vehicle. In one breath it’s a song about young love and in another it’s about those nights out with friends.

McMahon has also revealed that the next Wilderness album, the follow-up to 2018’s Upside Down Flowers, is titled Tilt at the Wind No More and will drop March 31. Along with “Lying,” the record will feature the previously released songs “VHS,” “Built to Last,” “Stars” and “Skywriting.”

To celebrate the Tilt at the Wind No More release, McMahon will play shows in Anaheim, California, on March 30 and 31, and New York City on April 4. He’ll also launch a full Wilderness tour in May.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit AndrewMcMahon.com.

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Black Thought is preparing to release a new album alongside El Michels Affair, a “cinematic soul” band from New York. Glorious Game is slated to drop on April 14 and will feature the just-released lead single “Grateful.” 

According to a press release, Thought and El Michels Affair frontman Leon Michels met performing at charity concerts in the early 2000s. The Roots star contacted Michels during the pandemic for some new beats, and Glorious Game was eventually born.

The album will follow Black Thought’s Cheat Codes, the collaborative album he and Danger Mouse dropped back in August.

El Michels Affair’s last few albums include 2020’s Adult Themes and 2021’s Yeti Season. They previously put their spin on Bandana by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, who they’d backed in their 2019 NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

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This week’s news that John Lydon would be competing in the Eurovision Song Contest with his band Public Image Ltd. was certainly surprising. After all, something as flashy and elaborate as Eurovision doesn’t exactly scream punk rock, especially for someone who used to front the Sex Pistols under the name Johnny Rotten.

If you ask Lydon, though, that’s exactly what makes this endeavor punk rock.

“That’s the irony of it all!” Lydon tells Ireland’s RTE Radio 1. “Life throws out the unexpected at you occasionally.”

Still, that doesn’t mean Lydon has to be fan of Eurovision. In fact, Lydon is very much not a fan of Eurovision.

“It’s absolutely awful!” Lydon declares. “The songs, just the whole thing of it is disgusting, really, to me. I’m a songwriter, I perform live, and these shows, they just come off so dreadfully phony to me.”

He adds, “But look, here we go, we’re giving it a chance to break out of that mold.”

Lydon and PiL will compete to represent Ireland in Eurovision with their new song “Hawaii.” The track was written for Lydon’s wife, Nora, who is battling Alzheimer’s disease.

“It’s win, lose or draw, my wife gets the reward,” Lydon says. “It’s all about her for me.”

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Jack White has announced the final dates of his Supply Chain Issues tour.

The massive international outing, which first launched last April, will come to a close with two shows at the intimate Blue Room in White’s Third Man Records in Nashville, taking place January 16 and 17. Given the small size of the space, the shows are unsurprisingly already sold out.

Before the Nashville concerts, White will play Los Angeles this Friday. He’ll also perform at Colorado’s Palm Tree Music Festival in February.

The Supply Chain Issues tour supported White’s two 2022 solo albums, Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive.

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Lil Yachty is in search of people, specifically women, to join his band. The rapper shared an ad in an Instagram post, in which he issued a call for auditions.

“Yachty is putting a band together. I want an all-girls band,” he writes. He’s specifically working to find two or three background singers, a guitar player, a drummer, a bass player and a keyboard player.

“Tryouts for my band Thursday,” Yatchy continued. “Shall the most talented women please pull up… Let’s Meet! See U Soon Ladies!”

Auditions take place January 12 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at MDP Production in Georgia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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Childish Gambino teased fans when he made an appearance on Latto‘s “Sunshine” in 2022, but apparently there’s more music on the way.

While on the red carpet for the Golden Globe Awards Tuesday, he told E! News that he’s currently cooking some stuff up in the studio.

“I’m making music right now. I love it,” said Gambino. “I’m actually in the studio. I’ve been bringing people in, like secret people, working on little things. I’ve been just making it for fun right now. But soon something will happen. I promise.”

Childish Gambino is the stage name for Donald Glover, star of the FX series Atlanta. He once considered retiring the name and persona of his alter ego. 

“There’s nothing worst [sic] than like a third sequel, like a third movie and we’re like, ‘Again?'” he said to HuffPost in 2017. “You know, I like it when something’s good and when it comes back there’s a reason to come back, there’s a reason to do that.”

“Like I feel like there’s gotta be a reason to do things and I always had a reason to be punk,” he continued. “Being punk just always felt really good to me … and I feel like the direction I would go with Childish Gambino wouldn’t be punk anymore. As much as ‘Redbone’ is a punk song because it’s a gospel song that’s on the radio, I’m like there’s only so far you can go before you just are the radio.”

Glover has since changed his thoughts on his alter ego.

“That was out in the ethos,” he told E! News. “You don’t have to worry about that. He’ll be back. He’s here right now.”

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