#Numan6Music - Now Playing @6Music tracklist September 2, 2011

Now Playing’s virtual guests this evening, Gary Numan and Ade Fenton, confirmed the release date of their brand new album. Dead Son Rising will be released on September 12, and Gary also revealed he’ll release a companion album, Splinter during 2012.



We had a couple of exclusive plays from Dead Son Rising, and were also glad to welcome back The Von Pip Musical Express and The Quietus.



Tracklist:



Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric



#Digital Digest

* Beyonce broke a Twitter record this week when she announced her pregnancy at MTV’s Video Music Awards – there were 8,868 tweets per second discussing the news.

* Karen O has announced details of her new opera Stop the Virgins, which are now up on Pitchfork.

* Metronomy have remixed Lady Gaga’sYou and I. (Listen here).

* M83 has released the first track from new double album Hurry Up We’re Dreaming. Appropriately called Intro and featuring Zola Jesus it is up on YouTube.



# Now Streaming – See the blog post

The Drums – How it Ended



#Blogging – The Von Pip Musical Express

Dum Dum Girls - Bedroom Eyes



#Gary Numan playlist

Gary Numan – M.E.

Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At

Depeche Mode – Walking in My Shoes

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy & William S. Burroughs – Words of Advice for Young People

The Foo Fighters – Down in the Park

Gary Numan – Noise Noise

Damon Albarn – We Have a Technical Problem

Ultravox – Slow Motion

Battles ft. Gary Numan – My Machines

South Central – Crawl

Ade Fenton – Slide Away

Gary Numan – When the Sky Bleeds, He Will Come



#Blogging – The Quietus

Zun Zun Egui - Fandango Fresh



#Now Viewing

* The most talked about event from the Reading and Leeds Festivals was Jarvis Cocker joining The Strokes on stage and performing Just What I Needed by Cars.

* Willie Nelson has done a rather lovely video of Coldplay’sThe Scientist which is now on YouTube.

* The Foo Fighters have released a North American tour preview, called Hot Buns, on YouTube.

* My Morning Jacket played their new album Circuita in full for KCRW which is up on NPR.

* And the official video for Joe Goddard’sGabriel is also up on Vimeo.



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