Scene and Heard

MUSIC NEWS:

Is it good news or bad news that the Pixies are releasing a new album in advance of their summer gigs in Cork and Dublin? Indie Cindy will be the group’s first studio album since 1991, and its official April 25 release will be preceded by special vinyl-only issue on Record Store Day on April 19. Let’s hope it’s a goodie, as the new record will probably take up a big part of the band’s summer sets. As ever, there are plenty more events planned for the international day of promotion for independent record stores, with Elbow releasing a new song on 7”, Green Day putting out a two-disc set of recent demos and Oasis issuing a 12” version of ‘Supersonic’.

Among the Irish shops taking part in the event are Plugd in Cork, Ben O’Neill’s in Dungarvan and Sound Cellar in Dublin. Other Voices returns to RTÉ Two on Sunday night at 10.30pm, with the opening show featuring the likes of The Gloaming, East India Youth and Hozier. The 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death is fast approaching, so check out these pages next Friday when we bring you the definitive account of Nirvana’s visit to Cork in 1991. And finally, we just didn’t listen when we were warned that getting a P.Diddy tattoo emblazoned across our chest would turn out to be a mistake. And so that day has come to pass, with the American mogul recently announcing that he has reverted to the Puff Daddy moniker. Time to get out the wirebrush.