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British trio Keane have confirmed work on their new record is now finished, and have announced a special one-off gig for March when several new tracks are set to be aired.

Keane have announced they will be joining in the celebrations at the 40th anniversary of Glastonbury this month after confirming they will appear at the festival just over two weeks before this year’s event is due to get under way.

The re-issued version of The Rolling Stones’ seminal 1972 release ‘Exile On Main St.‘ has won the race to top this week’s Album Chart, beating Faithless to the no.1 position, and in the process handing the veteran band their first chart-topper since 1994. German covers band The Baseballs have entered at no.4 with their record ‘Strike‘, and LCD Soundsystem’s well received third studio LP ‘This Is Happening‘ debuts at #7. Last week’s no.1, Keane‘s 8-track EP ‘Night Train‘, drops to number six. Elsewhere, Band Of Horses’ new album ‘Infinite Arms’ has landed at #21, and blues duo The Black Keys‘ ‘Brothers‘ enters at #29.

R n B artist B.o.B has ended rap collective Roll Deep’s three week stay at the top of the Singles Chart.

Keane’s first EP, the 8-track ‘Night Train‘, is this week’s UK no.1 album, beating off competition from Lady Gaga’s compilation ‘The Remix‘ which enters at #3. The National’s excellent fifth studio record ‘High Violet‘ enters at a very respectable #5, and Foals second LP ‘Total Life Forever‘ debuts at no.8. Outside the top 10, Paolo Nutini’s long stay in the top 10 finally comes to an end, with his second album ‘Sunny Side Up‘ dropping nine places to #18 and Jack White’s rock supergroup The Dead Weather enter at #32 with ‘Sea Of Cowards‘.

Rap collective Roll Deep hold on to the top spot in the Singles Chart for a third week.

Celebrated UK trio Keane will embark on a headlining US tour this summer in support of their new album Night Train, out tomorrow on Cherrytree/Interscope Records. The tour kicks off July 20th in Oakland, CA and sees the band traveling across the country, wrapping up August 11th in Minneapolis. Tickets go on sale May 14th. Tour dates below. Supporting the tour will be Travis frontman Fran Healy and Ingrid Michaelson.

Keane frontman Tom Chaplin has revealed he took inspiration from Alice Cooper to help him beat his drink and drug addictions, saying he took up Golf after he checked into The Priory in 2006. “I am actually quite obsessed with it,” he told The Sun. “When Alice Cooper needed to give up booze he said ‘What the hell am I going to do if I can’t drink?’, so he started playing golf and became completely obsessed with it – and that’s kind of the same as what happened to me. Alice’s whole tour schedule is built around playing golf. I don’t know if the same thing is going to happen for Keane, but it certainly gives me some relief.”

Following the worldwide success of their first three albums, the members of Keane announce today the release date of Night Train to be released on Cherrytree/Interscope Records in the U.S. on May 11. The band who has had three consecutive #1 albums in their native UK and have played sold out shows throughout the US will also soon announce tour dates in North America for this coming Spring.

This week’s Photo feature: Keane is an English piano rock band from Battle, East Sussex ,UK. New York photographer Alyssa Scheinson made some of her archive photos of Keane’s recording session at Chung King Studios, NYC, (2006) available to us. Alyssa had access to the band for an Amplifier Magazine story….Click on the big photo frame to view a larger version.

Following the worldwide success of their third consecutive Number One album, Perfect Symmetry, Keane are pleased to announce details of a new eight-song EP and a tour of English forests.

The Night Train EP will be released on 8th May 2010. It features eight powerful new tracks which were written and recorded during the Perfect Symmetry world tour that saw the band playing to packed arenas in 28 countries, from Australia to Norway, Colombia to China and Lebanon to Switzerland. The EP takes its title from the band’s favoured mode of transport during the tour.