Trent Reznor has released a free 5-song album sampler for the forthcoming soundtrack to The Social Network.

Available to download from Reznor's record label website - NullCo.com, the score was also worked on by How To Destroy Angels bandmate Atticus Ross.

Meanwhile, the full album is released digitally on September 28, with CD, HD Blu-Ray Audio and vinyl versions due out in October.

To download the album sampler and for more information, visit NullCo.com.

The tracklisting for 'The Social Network: Five Track Sampler' is as follows:

'Pieces Form The Whole'
'Eventually We Find Our Way'
'On We March'
'The Gentle Hum Of Anxiety'
'Soft Trees Break The Fall'

The tracklisting for 'The Social Network' is as follows:

'Hand Covers Bruise'
'In Motion'
'A Familiar Taste'
'It Catches Up With You'
'Intriguing Possibilities'
'Painted Sun In Abstract'
'3:14 Every Night'
'Pieces Form The Whole'
'Carbon Prevails'
'Eventually We Find Our Way'
'Penetration'
'In The Hall Of The Mountain King'
'On We March'
'Magnetic'
'Almost Home'
'Hand Covers Bruise, Reprise'
'Complication With Optimistic Outcome'
'The Gentle Hum Of Anxiety'
'Soft Trees Break The Fall'

Source NME

Ali G and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is to play Freddie Mercury in a film about Queen, the rock band's guitarist Brian May has confirmed to the BBC.

"We have Sacha Baron Cohen, which will probably be a shock to a lot of people, but he's been talking with us for a long time," May told the HARDtalk show.

Frost/Nixon scribe Peter Morgan is writing the screenplay, he added.

The film, which will focus on the period leading up to Live Aid in 1985, will begin shooting next year.

"I think we'll try and keep ourselves out of it as much as we can," May said.

Baron Cohen had been "on this project since we started talking about it seriously with Peter Morgan a couple of years ago," he added.

May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor will oversee music featured in the film, which will include songs by the band and by Mercury as a solo performer.

Graham King, of GK Films, which is co-producing the movie along with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's production company Tribeca, said Queen was "a music brand all unto itself".

"Freddie Mercury was an awe-inspiring performer so with Sacha in the starring role, coupled with Peter's screenplay and the support of Queen, we have the perfect combination to tell the real story behind their success."

Morgan, whose previous works include the Oscar-nominated screenplays for The Queen and Frost/Nixon, is already working on the script for the as-yet-untitled project.

Queen's 21-minute appearance at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium featured Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are The Champions and Radio Ga Ga. It is considered to be one of the classic rock performances.

The HARDtalk interview with Brian May will be broadcast on BBC World News on Thursday 23 September and the BBC News Channel on Friday 24 September.

Source BBC News

The 49-year-old devout Catholic fulfilled a lifelong dream by performing for Pope Benedict XVI ' the head of the Catholic Church -in an open-air ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, on September 16, 2010.

An excited Susan fainted 24 hours earlier when told she would be singing for the pontiff.

But when it came to the performance, the singer ' who shot to global fame after appearing on TV talent show 'Britain's Got Talent' - turned in a flawless display with a rendition of her most famous track 'I Dreamed a Dream' from the musical 'Les Miserables'.

She then performed a stirring rendition of hymn 'How Great Thou Art' and finished with 'Make Me a Channel of Your Peace'.

Susan ' who sang before and after the Papal Mass - said: "It's something I've always dreamed of, it's something I've always wanted to do, and here I am, finally getting the chance."

The 65,000 crowd were enthusiastic about her appearance.

Marie-Alice Quigley, 60 - who travelled from Gorebridge, Midlothian, to see the pope - said: "I thought she was marvellous. She was every bit as good as she's made out to be."

Susan has previously admitted she was "humbled" to be asked to sing for the pope during his four-day visit to the UK.

She said: "The pope's visit is a very big event for Scottish Catholics. My own faith is the backbone of my life, I pray and say the rosary each day and am very close to my religion.'

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Bad news for Coldplay fans is good news for non-fans. Although members of the band were promising to have a new album in stores by the end of 2010, it's now looking as though Chris Martin and co will be toiling away on their next release until sometime in 2011.

During a fan meet-and-greet event in London yesterday, Martin said that much work lay ahead of the group. According to the fansite Coldplaying.com, "Chris said that although they are close to finishing lots of songs, they have not actually finished anything at all yet." (This apparently includes the song Wedding Bells, which Martin recently played at an Apple Computer event.)

Coldplay's former manager Phil Harvey had even more rotten news for the group's fans.The man described as 'the fifth member of the band' said that, although the group's tour for their previous album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends began immediately after the record's release, Coldplay will take a little more time between the release of the unnamed fifth album and the start of their next tour. Although no specific dates were mentioned, there is a possibility Coldplay won't hit the road until 2012.

All of which isn't music to the ears of EMI, currently struggling with massive debts. The label's owner, Terra Firma, was counting on a 2010 release from Coldplay to ease their cash flow problems.

Source musicradar

Love Weezer's first record (aka The Blue Album)? Love their second disc, Pinkerton? Well, you're about to be in hog heaven, because Rivers Cuomo and co are planning what's being called a 'Blinkerton' tour later this year, during which the band will play both albums in back-to-back shows in select cities.

As of this writing, there are no confirmed dates, but an official announcement states that Weeer will perform two concerts in each market, and that "on the first night Weezer will play 'The Blue Album' in its entirety, and the second night they will play 'Pinkerton' in its entirety."

This all comes as a bit of a surprise, seeing as the group has just released Hurley, their first album for Epitaph Records. Being the maverick kind of guy that he is, though, Rivers Cuomo is already looking ahead to his next CD. During an interview with the A.V. Club, Cuomo said that the newest record - meaning the one he's already making - will be a stark contrast to the somber vibe on Hurley.

"I was talking to the producer and he was saying, 'These songs sound totally different from Hurley,'" said Cuomo. "'Hurley was kind of dark, and the new songs sound like you're 16, riding your bicycle to get a Slurpee.' As a writer, I had no idea -I wasn't shooting for anything different. That's just what happened to come up."

Source musicradar

Mavis Staples will play her only UK gig of the year at London's Jazz Cafe on November 17.

The gospel legend's new album You Are Not Alone was produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and was released this week. The record includes reinterpretations of tracks by the likes of Randy Newman, Allen Toussaint, John Fogerty, Rev. Gary Davis, Little Milton and Mavis's father, the legendary Pops Staples. Receiving four stars in the current issue of the magazine, the record is made up of "country soul reworkings of the gospel and blues songbook" with MOJO's Lois Wilson calling Mavis' vocal performances "intense, deep... and quite simply jaw-dropping".

You Are Not Alone follows Staples' last studio album, 2007's Ry Cooder-produced We'll Never Turn Back.

Tickets for the Jazz Cafe show cost £25 and are on sale now.

Source MOJO