IceBergRadio reported that David Crosby and Graham Nash have announced a 17-date U.S. tour, following Crosby, Stills & Nash's February trek Down Under. Crosby & Nash will be belatedly touring behind their Highlights collection released last summer, which was a pared down version of their 2004 Crosby-Nash album.

David Crosby & Graham Nash tour dates (subject to change):
March 19 - Shawnee, OK - Firelake Casino
March 21 - Paducah, KY - Four Rivers Center
March 24 - Florence, IN - Belterra Casino Resort
March 25 - Cleveland, OH - Allen Theatre
March 27 - Hartford, CT - The Bushnell Center For Performing Arts
March 28 - Wilkes-Barre, PA - F.M. Kirby Center
March 30 - Kingston, NY - UPAC Broadway Theatre
March 31 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel & Casino
April 2 - Lancaster, PA - American Music Theatre
April 3 - Worcester, PA - Mechanics Hall
April 5 - Westbury, NY - North Fork Theatre at Westbury
April 6 - Morristown, NJ - Community Theatre
April 8 - Portland, ME - Merrill Auditorium
April 9 - Portsmouth, NH - The Music Hall
April 11 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theatre
April 12 - Wilmington, DE - Grand Opera House
April 14 - Schenectady, NY - Proctor's Theatre

Nash told us that since their first meeting in 1966, he and Crosby have shared a unique bond: "I've always been closer friends with David than I have with either Stephen (Stills) or Neil (Young). I mean, that's been obvious from the very beginning with me and David's relationship. As a musician he is one of the finest, most unique musicians in the world. I love him to death."

Crosby, Stills & Nash kick off their next series of dates on February 17th in Perth.

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Radiohead have started work again on their eagerly anticipated new album.

After a one-month hiatus, the band reconvened yesterday and according to Thom York, they had a “good day” which involved working on new track ’15 Step’ and rebuilding their studio in the wind.

In typical Yorke style, the singer urged readers of Radiohead’s Dead Air Space to sign a petition against the replacement of nuclear weapons.

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Bjork has drafted in Antony & the Johnsons frontman Antony Hegarty to appear on her upcoming new album.

The 2005 Mercury Music Prize winner sings on two tracks and is one of a series of guests appearing on the record.

On a post on Bjork’s official website, it says the Icelandic singer has teamed up with “numerous people from truly different backgrounds.”

Two album tracks are being produced by acclaimed Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z producer Timbalake.

The post on the website continued: “More work is being done in the next few weeks on the new record. It has not got a name. It’s scheduled for release in the late spring.”

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Archives box-set have surfaced today.

The anticipated release date of 'Archives, Volume 1' is September this year.

The collection will feature eight discs, including "Live At the Filmore" (released last November) and "Live At Massey Hall", a solo set from 1971 which is due out on March 26 .

Thirty-eight previously unreleased songs will feature on Archives, billed as a 'musical autobiography' of Neil Young. Tantalisingly, the eight CDs only cover the period from 1964 to 1971, suggesting it is only the beginning of a vast release campaign.

Allan Jones, Editor of Uncut says "This is incredible news for Neil Young fans, like myself, who seem to have been waiting the best part of our adult lives for the release of this archive material. Neil has been talking about it for years.When I interviewed him in 1989, he told me it was coming together and to expect it soon. Which is also what he told me when I interviewed him in 1993. It looks finally like it's s happening at last, though, incrediblly enough. On the evidence of the Live at The Filmore CD, it should be mind-blowing stuff."

We'll announce more details about Archives, Volume 1 on Uncut.co.uk as we get them.

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We saddened to hear that former Mamas & Papas singer Denny Doherty passed away (January 19).

The singer had been ill with kidney problems, and had been on dialysis following surgery last month. He was 66.

Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and started his musical career in Montreal with The Colonials, scoring a minor hit in the early '60s with
"The Man Who Wouldn't Sing Along With Mitch". Ironically, the band split in 1963 at a hotel named The Colonial.

By early 1965, Doherty had met and played with songwriter John Philips in his band The New Journeymen, and had also met Cass Elliot. With the disbanding of Phillips' band, the three of them formed The Magic Circle.

Signing a record deal with Dunhill Records only six months later, the group changed their name to The Mamas & The Papas and recorded debut album 'If You Can Believe Your Ears'.

The group had commercial hits around the worldwide with songs like 1966's classic summer anthem "California Dreamin'" and the beautiful, Grammy-winning Number One, "Monday, Monday".

Other songs made famous by one of the world's first mixed-sex groups, include "I Saw Her Again Last Night", "Go Where You Wanna Go", and "Dedicated To The One I Love".

The success of the band was compromised, however, when an affair between Doherty and Phillips' wife Michelle caused her to be kicked out of the band in June 1966. Demand from fans meant that Michelle's replacement Jill Gibson only lasted in the group for two months, and Michelle Phillips was re-instated in August 1966.

After the stresses, the group couldn't concentrate on their musical direction whilst attempting to make a fifth record together, and after Cass Elliot left the group, The Mamas & The Papas disbanded in 1968. The band briefly reunited in 1971 for the album 'People Like Us'. But dreams of a proper reunion ended when Cass Elliot died of a heart attack in 1964.

For his briefly successful solo career, Doherty was inducted in the Canadian Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and The Mamas & Papas were inducted into the US Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1998.

More recently, Doherty co-authored the off-Broadway Show 'Dream A Little Dream: The Mamas & Papas Musical' in 2003.

Michelle Phillips is now the only surviving member of the group as her former husband, John Phillips died in 2001 at the age of 65.

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