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| Arctic Monkeys secret artwork revealed Arctic Monkeys's X-rated album artwork has finally been unveiled as their second LP 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' hits UK stores today (April 23). The album's front cover, which depicts flourescent colours gleaming through the windows of a deserted house, is a preview of a psychedelic, sexually explicit inlay (see picture). Juno, the design agency that also designed the first album, played tracks to Southampton-based spraycan artists De5ign 4, who spent a week decoraring the house in Garston in Liverpool. An eyewitness who saw the design being created told NME.COM it's "mad psychedelic shit, with lots of cocks. Lots of pink cocks. One of the rooms has got little sperms; they've got cocks for heads. There's a giant holding a severed cock". The street is due to be demolished later this year. Meanwhile experience the moment the band released their second album at a special homecoming event last night (April 22), which included the second of the band's sold-out dates at the Leadmill venue. All the action was caught by a special blog which was filed straight from Sheffield. Plus once you've heard the album, email us at news@nme.com with Arctic in subject line with your verdict on the album and we'll publish the best. |
Phil Spector trial: Day 22 A coroner's criminalist defended her evidence-gathering methods when she took the stand in the Phil Spector murder trial today (June 13). Jamie Lintemoot of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office said she did nothing wrong and did not comprise any evidence while working at the scene of the crime the morning after actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at Spector's Los Angeles mansion in February 2003. "I do not believe I compromised evidence," Lintemoot said. Linda Kenney Baden, one of Spector's lawyers, questioned the criminalist about the procedure she used involving acetate tape to lift evidence off of Clarkson's clothing. Kenney Baden implied that the bloodstains on the actress' dress may have been disturbed by the tape lift. If proven, this could be key to the defence's expected argument that the pattern and size of the bloodstains indicate Spector was too far from Clarkson to have shot her. This could help them make the case that the actress shot herself and was not murdered by Spector, as prosecutors allege. |
Arctic Monkeys frontman to record surprise album this month Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and The Rascals' Miles Kane are set to record an album together later this month. The pair became friends when Kane's first band The Little Flames supported Arctic Monkeys on their early tour. Kane contributed guitar to Arctic Monkeys' second album 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' and has joined the Sheffield band live frequently this summer to play '505' with them, including at the weekend's Old Trafford gigs (July 28-29). Now the pair are set to head to France to record an album together in mid-August. "We're there for two weeks and we're going to try to get the majority of it done," Kane told NME.COM. "James Ford is producing it and is going to play drums, he's a really boss drummer. Me and Al will do all the bass and guitar and vocals, and try to the get the bulk of it done in two weeks. We're going to record it quite live to tape I think. Then whenever we've got weekends off at the same time we'd like to get some strings on it and probably do all that back home. That's the plan anyway." The singer added that the pair were still trying to work out what their project will be called. "We were thinking Turner & Kane but everyone says it doesn't sound too serious," he explained. Kane is currently recording The Rascals debut EP in London - due out in October - with Blur and Elbow producer Ben Hiller. He expects the pair's album to come out in the first half of 2008, after The Rascals have released their debut album. "We want to have a bit of everything on there," said Kane of his own band's forthcoming album. "Some of the tunes do the same job, if you know what I mean, so we'll only have a couple of them on. So when we do it we will have everything." |
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