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Arctic Monkeys have shed a little more light on their upcoming fifth album, AM, announced yesterday and due out September 10 via Domino. For starters, the U.K. band's singer-guitarist Alex Turner said Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme's appearance on the album was both casual and potentially unusual. Homme produced half of Arctic Monkeys' 2009 album Humbug, and Turner lent backing vocals to QOTSA's recent ...Like Clockwork cut "If I Had a Tail." "The Josh thing was very much a case of one of us returning a back scratch to the other," Turner said in an interview last night with BBC Radio 1 's Zane Lowe (via NME). "He came down and sort of got us out of a little rut. It's just fun, it's friends, extended family now — came round, had a fun night. His contribution to our record is really exciting, it's probably my favorite. The 30 seconds that he's in there is just, I dunno, it's like something that I've never heard before." The happiest news for Arctic Monkeys fans, though, might be that Turner confirmed last year's bruising Record Store Day single "R U Mine?" was the catalyst for AM's direction (it's included on the track list). "The record sort of started with 'R U Mine?' really," Turner said. " discovered something through the recording of that tune that we thought was worth exploring." He added that latest single "Do I Wanna Know?" "was the first thing we found along that road." Arctic Monkeys 2013 tour dates: June 25 - Zagreb, Croatia @ Inmusic FestivalJune 28 - Somerset, England @ Glastonbury FestivalJuly 4 - Gdynia, Poland @ Open’er FestivalJuly 6 - Moscow, Russia @ Subbotnik FestivalJuly 10 - Rome, Italy @ Rock In RomaJuly 11 - Ferrara, Italy @ Piazza CastelloJuly 13 - Wiesen, Austria @ Harvest of Art FestivalJuly 15 - Carcassonne, France @ Festival de la CiteJuly 16 - Six Fours, France @ Les Voix Du GaouJuly 18 - Alcantara, Portugal @ Super Bock Super RockJuly 20 - Benicassim, Spain @ BenicassimJuly 22 - Vienne, France @ Arenes de VienneJuly 24 - Nyon, Switzerland @ Paleo FestivalAugust 30 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Zurich OpenairSeptember 1 - Stradbally, Ireland @ Electric Picnic FestivalSeptember 15 - Toronto, ON @ Kool HausSeptember 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center for Performing ArtsSeptember 21 - Atlanta, GA @ Music Midtown FestivalSeptember 23 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera TheaterSeptember 27 - Oakland, CA @ Fox TheaterSeptember 29-30 - Los Angeles, CA @ The WilternOctober 4 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits FestivalOctober 5 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Varsity TheatreOctober 7 - Chattanooga, TN @ Track 29October 8 - Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music WorksOctober 9 - Birmingham, AL @ Iron City BirminghamOctober 11 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival October 13 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Corona Capital FestivalNovember 7 - Paris, France @ ZenithNovember 9 - Brussels, Belgium @ The Forest NationalNovember 13 - Milan, Italy @ Mediolanum Forum

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