REM are apparently keen to put out their rare, fan club-only single releases as a charity boxset.
Peter Buck has told BBC News that he would like to put out the band's special releases. REM produced a limited edition two-track single every year from 1988 - 2011. Only 6,000 of each were pressed, and they were given away to members of the band's fan club.
Bruce Springsteen is to re-release his landmark four disc box set, Tracks, on September 30.
The box set, which has been unavailable for five years, contains unreleased songs, outtakes, demos and alternative versions taken from throughout his career.
Tracks was originally released in 1998, and will be re-issued as a DVD-sized bookset through Sony Music/Legacy Recording. The tracks have been digitally remixed and remastered, and this repackaged set comes with a 56 page colour booklet of photos, lyrics and complete session information.
The Rolling Stones apparently played the loudest gig ever to take place in London's Hyde Park, according to Jim King of concert promoters AEG.
King added that despite this, only one complaint about the noise was recorded. Speaking to Music Week, King commented: "The Rolling Stones played the loudest anybody's ever played in Hyde Park before and we had one complaint. The music could have been off and we'd have still had that complaint anyway."
Johnny Marr has said that people who are obsessed with The Smiths reforming "need to go and find a hobby".
The guitarist, who released his first solo album The Messenger in February of this year, has repeatedly been asked to comment on reports that the band he formed with Morrissey will ever get back together. At the NME Awards in 2012, he joked that the band would reform when the current Government steps down, but he has since insisted that fans of the group need to accept that there won't be some "big happy ending" for the group.
Arctic Monkeys have unveiled a video for their new single "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" – you can watch the promo at the end of the page.
The video, directed by Nabil, is the latest single to be taken from the band's fifth studio album AM, which will be released on September 9 and also features the tracks "R U Mine?" and "Do I Wanna Know?". Guests on the album include Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and former member of The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones.
The National were joined onstage by Grateful Dead's Bob Weir at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco – you can watch footage below.
The band performed the track, which appeared on their High Violet album, with Weir on Friday (August 9). Last year, Weir covered Cass McCombs' "Love Thine Enemy" with members of the band during a 'Bridge Sessions webcast.
For all his flailing locks and dazed expression, Ty Segall does not make a particularly convincing slacker. In a short promotional clip for his new album, released on Youtube back in May, he pretends to be asleep in bed, on his couch, in a garden and then, preposterously, up a tree and at the wheel of a moving van.
Following last night's breaking news that Neil Young & Crazy Horse have cancelled the remaining dates on their European tour, a source has now confirmed the reasons behind the cancellation.
According to a report on Rolling Stone, a source close to the Young camp has explained that Crazy Horse guitarist Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro has broken his hand.
