David Bowie light-heartedly threatened to steal Arcade Fire's "Reflektor" for himself, according to band member Richard Reed Parry.
Bowie appears alongside the Canadian band on their new single, the first track to be taken from the forthcoming double album of the same name. Speaking to NME in a new interview in this week's issue, available digitally and on newsstands now, Parry lifted the lid on what it was like to be in the studio with Bowie.
The Rolling Stones have unveiled a trailer for their forthcoming live film, Sweet Summer Sun.
The film was recorded at London's Hyde Park on July 6 and 13. You can read our original reviews of the shows here (July 6) and here (July 13).
Television have announced a short, UK headline tour for November.
The band will play the Sage in Gateshead (15) and Manchester Academy 2 (17) before finishing up at London's Roundhouse (19) on the short, three-date jaunt.
Morrissey's autobiography, which appeared to have been pulled at the last minute last week following a "content dispute" between the singer and publisher Penguin Books, appears now to be back on the schedule - in the UK, at least.
The Byrds' Gene Clark is the subject of a new documentary, due for release in November.
The Byrd Who Flew Alone – The Triumphs And Tragedy Of Gene Clark includes new interviews with friends and former colleagues including David Crosby, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, alongside previously unseen archive footage.
The documentary will be released on November 1 through Four Sun Productions.
Ian Curtis' lyrics - and previously unpublished facsimile pages from his notebooks - are to be collected in a new book.
Published by Faber, So This Is Permanence: Lyrics And Notebooks, is edited by Jon Savage and comes accompanied with a foreword by Deborah Curtis.
So This Is Permanence will be published in Spring 2014.
Arcade Fire/ are to appear in their own concert special on American TV later this month.
The band are booked in as musical guests on the season premiere of NBC's Saturday Night Live on September 28, and straight after the episode ends the same network will broadcast a 30-minute Arcade Fire concert special, Consequence of Sound has confirmed. NBC's Arcade Fire special will celebrate the release of the band's forthcoming album Reflektor but at present no further details about the show are known.
Jackie Lomax has died aged 69 during a trip to a family wedding in the UK.
Lomax started out as a member of the Undertakers, a Merseybeat group who followed The Beatles to Hamburg and released four singles on Pye, only one of which - "Just A Little Bit" - made the charts.
Lomax' next band, The Lomax Alliance, were managed by Brian Epstein; after Epstein's death, he signed to Apple Records.
Arctic Monkeys have made Official UK Albums Chart history, as AM enters the chart at Number One.
The band's new album, AM, released by Domino Records, is the band's fifth consecutive Number One, making them the first indie-released act to achieve such a feat, reports the Official Charts Company.
