A super deluxe boxset of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols album is set to be released in order to celebrate it's 35th anniversary.
The boxset will be available from September 24 through Universal Music UK and will feature music, footage, interviews, pictures and other artefacts.
Happy Mondays are planning a new album, they have confirmed.
The Manchester band's management told NME that they are working on a new record, which will be the first time all the original line-up of the band recorded new material album of new material since 1992's Yes Please!.
One terrible absence from this week’s playlist is, of course, Bob Dylan’s “Tempest”, which Allan heard a while back. If you haven’t read his preview yet, please check it out here. Some fairly lively discussion in the comments thread, too.
The Velvet Underground's classic debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is set to be re-released as a six disc package on October 1.
The 1967 album will be re-released in order to celebrate its 45th anniversary. The six discs will include the original stereo and mono versions of the album, as well as Nico's Chelsea Girl album and two live discs taken from a show at the Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.
Dinosaur Jr's new album features a funk influence and a song about vampires.
The band are set to release their tenth studio album I Bet On The Sky on September 17.
"There's a couple of songs with more of a groove, a little bit mellower, but there’s some heavier stuff on it too," singer J Mascis told NME. "It's funky for us, but not that funky. I like the first song 'Don't Pretend You Didn't Know' the best, that’s one of the funkier numbers, it seemed to come together in a good way."
Don’t spread it about, but, yes, I’ve heard the new Dylan album. And four or five tracks in, what I was thinking was: how much better is this thing going to get?
One encouraging thread in movies this year has been the return of filmmakers of a Nineties vintage. Wes Anderson, Whit Stillman and Todd Solondz have all returned, successfully, from their various sabbaticals.
Potentially topping them all, we now have sight of the imminent return of Paul Thomas Anderson, with his first film since 2007's There Will Be Blood, called The Master.
Lou Reed is set to play a one-off London show as part of the Antony-curated Meltdown festival this August.
The former Velvet Underground frontman will play at London's Royal Festival Hall on August 10, as part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World with MasterCard.
We have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky winner to see Reed's Meltdown show, as well as a signed self portrait photo, and Meantime ale to drink throughout the night for free.
