Miracles still happen, especially - if not only - in music land. Ralf Hütter has confirmed Billboard that Kraftwerk is working on a new album. Not that they have completed anything yet: "There's still time to go but in the winter it's pretty gray here, so it's a good situation to go into the studio. It's still very early. It's still in its embryonic stage." Plans exist to tour the new material once the new album is released. It will be the band's first new album since 2003's "Tour De France". The new Kraftwerk album will also be the very first without co-founder Florian Schneider. Schneider left Kraftwerk last November as we reported

Out on October 26th is Ikon's "Love, Hate and Sorrow". The release marks the band's return to German Label Apollyon with whom they first signed, back in 1994. The first limited edition of the album will be released as a double-CD in a deluxe 8-panel digipak with special varnish print. CD1 features the 'official' album with 12 new tracks, while CD2 contains an all 'unplugged/acoustic' session with a total of 10 tracks. Ikon also plans to re-issue its first two albums, "In the Shadow of the Angel" and "Flowers for the Gathering", in 2010, in remastered and expanded format.







Track listing:





CD1

1.A Line on a Dark Day

2.Before the Dawn

3.Torn Apart

4.Memoirs of a Butterfly

5.Winter Mourning

6.Beautiful Sadness

7.Amongst the Runes

8.Love, Hate and Sorrow

9.Dead Man Tomorrow

10.All Depths of Despair

11.Point of No Return

12.Driftwood



CD2 (Sessions de-mixed)



1.Hindsight

2.Amongst the Runes

3.Driftwood

4.Broken Windows

5.Calm Before the Storm

6.Memoirs of a Butterfly

7.Torn Apart

8.Beautiful Sadness

9.Stalag 13

10.Love, Hate and Sorrow

A proposed fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie has a title—P of C: On Stranger Tides—and a vague release date—summer 2011—but there's also a lot of questions about whether it'll actually get made.









For one thing, Johnny Depp told the Los Angeles Times that his enthusiasm for a fourth outing as Captain Jack Sparrow had waned now that his longtime Disney ally, former chairman Dick Cook, has been booted out.













Bill Nighy

Now comes word from Bill Nighy—that's the squid-faced Davy Jones to you lot—says that any announcement about a sequel is premature.





"I understand that there was an announcement that there was going to be a fourth, and now I've been told since that that was not a reliable announcement," Nighy told a group of reporters last week while promoting the animated film Astro Boy.





A fourth movie depends a lot on whether Depp signs on, and it would behoove new Disney studio chair Rich Ross to make him happy.





The series' producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, meanwhile, has been serious enough about a fourth film to approach director Rob Marshall (Chicago) to take over from Gore Verbinski, who directed the previous three installments.





But Nighy doesn't think Bruckheimer's in any hurry, either. "Jerry at one point said we have to wait until the world is pirate-hungry again," Nighy said. "I think I'm getting a taste in my mouth."





Still, Nighy's not writing a fourth installment off. "I'm pretty sure that there will be [a fourth]," Nighy said. "I would be amazed if there weren't, given the success of the first three."





As for whether Davy Jones will make an appearance if a fourth movie moves ahead? "I would love to be in it, because I had a wonderful time with those," Nighy said. "They were great people, and those films are beloved, so it would be great to be in a fourth one."





Nighy is just holding out for some cool Davy Jones-themed merch. "This time maybe they'll make some pajamas," he said.

Fabulous Clockwork Quartet





On Friday, we went to witness a full on Steampunk musical creations&hellip; Clockwork Quartet at the <st1><st1>Horse <st1>Hospital. There were so many details put into the room, the bands, even all the background and set, all old suitcases, gadgets, drinks, even down to the table lamp.



The place was made like a railway platform, we were very early so grabbed a lovely front table and participate with great pleasure in the bar&hellip; port, wine, absinthe, chartreuse; and for once affordable £2 and in crystal glasses. They had 'cigarette girls' with trays full of handmade truffles, with crazy flavours to suit your drinks - everything from mascapone, dark cherry to soy sauce and mushroom . I discover that chatreuse with water and sugar is so so nice&hellip;.even the bar was full of mad steampunk gadgetry. Also catch up with a few faces from the Asylum weekend&hellip;



It was a mix of weird instruments, cabaret and Victorian musical&hellip;all had little theme songs, all different style, all seemed to play so many instruments even a saw&hellip;totally different and awesome.

Fantastic evening .













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AROOOO!! Exciting news today... there will be new special effects in series two, as well as modifications to the existing ones to make them uglier, scarier and more realistic.



Not only that, but these modifications are being made as we speak. And to prove it, we caught up with special effects supremo Rob Meyer who let us take a peek inside the workshop where all the monster magic happens.