With a new album on the way, former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland is mighty happy with his new project Black Light Burns. He's left Limp Bizkit in the dust.

"I have no plans on working with Limp again," Borland tells Spinner. "It's better for me for sure. I'm having a great time doing."

While Borland is in the studio recording a new album, he is pushing his band's covers collection 'Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey,' a combination CD/DVD package due in stores Aug. 5.

Packed with reinterpreted songs of bands including Duran Duran ('Hungry Like the Wolf'), the Jesus Lizard ('The Art of Self Defense'), Sisters of Mercy ('Lucretia My Reflection') and PJ Harvey ('Rid of Me'), 'Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey' could have been two albums, Borland says.

"It was probably the most fun I've ever had making a record," Borland, who drew the line at 10 covers, says. "The hard part was done. The songs were written. So it was just having our take on the songs, having our way with the songs and having fun with it."

Having fun for Borland means not only interpreting others' songs, but writing his own for Black Light Burns, which allows Borland to explore his musical and vocal side, something he was unable to do in Limp Bizkit. "I can write a song and know what it's about and tailor the music," he says. "It all makes sense together, instead of random lyrics on top of music that sounds cool."

'Dry'
--PJ Harvey (1993)

The Kiss-Off: "You leave me dry"

Fellas, just be glad she didn't tell us what she really thinks.





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"She's hot and mysterious ... I like to think of her as Amy Winehouse's mother."
--Dave Attell

The insightful 'Insomniac' comedian revealed his PJ Harvey crush to the AV Club.

Hot on the heels of her latest album, 'White Chalk,' PJ Harvey will enter the studio with multi-instrumentalist John Parish for a collaborative album -- the follow-up to their beloved 1996 effort, 'Dance Hall at Louse Point.' Joining the two are frequent Harvey collaborator Eric Drew Feldman, Autolux's Carla Azar and Giovanni Ferrario.

Following the studio sessions, Harvey will launch a brief tour of New Zealand and Australia in February, as well as a one-off date in Rome on March 9.

The as-yet-untitled Harvey-Parish album is due later this year.

PJ Harvey recently announced another one-off tour date behind her latest album, 'White Chalk.' The elusive singer-songwriter will play Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome on March 9. The performance follows a string of scheduled dates in New Zealand and Australia, beginning February 13 Auckland, and wrapping on February 22 in Perth, Aus. To gear up for her shows Down Under, here's a video of Harvey performing 'Rid of Me,' from 2001's Big Day Out festival.

Just one day after playing the first of her only two U.S. shows this year, at New York's Beacon Theatre, PJ Harvey, who just released her latest album, the piano-based 'White Chalk,' stopped by our Manhattan studio for a four-song performance and interview. Donning a raven Victorian dress, Harvey needed little decoration for her tunes, as her solo set, much like the new album, relied heavily on only two things: a percussive, haunting piano -- a new instrument in Harvey's musical palette -- and a voice that has found no boundaries over the course of her 15-year career.

"Initially, I was [intimidated by the piano], actually," Harvey told Spinner. "I found myself avoiding playing it for about three months after I first had it. I had never had a piano before. I was nervous about approaching it for a long time, and then as soon as I got over that, it just became this wealth of inspiration, really, because I didn't know what I was doing. I've never really been a player that knows much about the theory side of music -- even to do with guitar. But I've gotten so familiar with shapes on the guitar, and I would know what shapes would work together. But with piano I knew nothing."

Watch the full performance and interview, in which Harvey discusses which of her albums she favors, what she was like as a child and why she'd like to sit down with Bjork and Tori Amos once more.

Much like the song, the video for 'When Under Ether' -- PJ Harvey's first single from her latest album, 'White Chalk' -- is bare-bones at best, with longtime collaborator Maria Mochnacz capturing the ever-elusive Harvey in her natural environment: the studio. Listen closely for the T.S. Eliot reference(s).