TAS Interview: Isobel Campbell

In August, Scottish chanteuse and cellist Isobel Campbell released her third collaborative album, Hawk, with gruff, saturnine cohort Mark Lanegan, ex of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age. The two friends launch their first-ever North American tour tonight, October 13, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and they arrive in New York this weekend. Campbell chatted with The Alternate Side on Monday about her work with Lanegan, a future project with Victoria Williams and the sweet reunion she had last week with her former bandmates, Belle and Sebastian, in Los Angeles.

The Vaselines Are Headed To North America With A Tour And An Album

Elusive Scottish rock duo The Vaselines, a favorite of the late Kurt Cobain, will be releasing their sophomore album sex with an x on September 14, the band's follow up to their debut Dum Dum ... which came out twenty years ago. Bandmates Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee are also giving away a free MP3 of their first single off of the album, "I Hate The 80's."

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