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Freebass, a collaboration between New Order bassist Peter Hook, Primal Scream/Stone Roses bassist Mani, and Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, has had an album in the works since late 2005. But Hook swears they will put out an album by March, or he'll guarantee its presence on the marketplace by killing himself. "It's going to be out next March or I am going to fucking top myself," he told Billboard, "I'm fucking sick of talking about it. I just want to give someone some music. I said to Mani and Andy Rourke: 'It's coming out and I don't care how rough it is. Fuck it—let's do some gigs.'" The album contains tons of alt-rock guest stars, including Mani's once and former bandmates Ian Brown and Bobby Gillespie. Morrissey and Bernard Sumner, however, may not have even been called.
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After the glam band Faster Pussycat resolved its dispute over which members had naming rights, there was a void in the "claim to name" sphere that afflicts so many vintage outfits in these reunion-crazy times. Which band would be next to engage in an ugly war of words about who really deserves to have ownership of the name? From a posting on his MySpace blog over the weekend, it would seem that former New Order bassist Peter Hook, who's irritated by recent statements by his ex-bandmates indicating that they're going to carry on using the name without him, is ready to heed the sirens' call: More »