Jack White has announced details of this year's final releases in the Third Man Vault series - from both The Dead Weather and the Raconteurs.
The subscription-based Vault here package includes a 7-inch single from The Dead Weather and a live album from the Raconteurs.
The Dead Weather will release "Open Up (That's Enough)" b/w "Rough Detective". You can hear a preview below. The track is taken from the band's new album, which is due in 2015.
Cat Power, Sky Ferreira, the Low Anthem and DIIV's Zachary Cole Smith will play an Elliott Smith tribute at Brooklyn's Glasslands on October 21 - the 10-year anniversary of Smith's death.
Proceeds from the show will go to the Elliott Smith Memorial Fund, which benefits two charities: Portland's Outside In and Free Arts for Abused Children.
Linda Perhacs has announced her first ever European dates.
The singer songwriter will play seven dates in mainland Europe and one date in London.
Perhacs, who is working on a follow-up to her 1970 album, Parallelograms, called The Soul of All Natural Things, will play:
18 November, Berghain, Berlin
20 November, Moderna Museet, Malmö
22 November, Jazzhouse, Copenhagen
24 November, Voxhall, AARHUS
27 November, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
29 November, Le Guess Who? Festival, Utrecht
02 December, Divan du Monde, Paris
Something nice in the post this morning: a copy of Donald Fagen’s memoir, “Eminent Hipsters”. It’s not always the greatest idea to judge a book by its chapter titles (though I do always think that Clive James’ “A Prong In Peril” and “The Sound Of Mucus” are a good example of delivering what they promise), but definitely looking forward to “Henry Mancini’s Anomie Deluxe” and “The Cortico-Thalamic Pause: Growing Up Sci-Fi” Gonna have a wingding, or such like, at the weekend, and will report back.
The Velvet Underground are to reissue their second album, White Light/White Heat, according to a story on Rolling Stone.
The album, which celebrates its 45th anniversary this year, will reportedly be reissued as a three-disc deluxe edition on December 3 through Universal Music.
Paul McCartney has replied to two fans who first contacted him 50 years ago.
BBC News reports that McCartney wrote a reply to Barbara Bezant and Lyn Phillips decades after they recorded a message on to tape in 1963 and sent it to the Finsbury Park Astoria in London, where The Beatles were performing live. The tape was later found at a car boot sale with its buyer deciding to try and locate the two women.
Damon Albarn will make his radio presenting debut this Saturday (October 5).
The frontman will be covering for regular presenter Dermot O'Leary on his BBC Radio 2 show, which airs at 3pm. The BBC states that Albarn will be playing music "from all over world", and will also be joined by actor Idris Elba as well as Paul Simonon, Ken Dodd and a Pentecostal Choir.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have invited fans to attend a special London gig, which will be filmed for a new film about Cave, called 20,000 Days On Earth.
The band will play an intimate sow at London's Koko on November 3. Fans wishing to attend can register to purchase tickets via a ballot on the band's website by Monday, October 7 at 9am.
Peter Gabriel is to release a new single, "Courage" on November 4, 2013.
The track was originally part of the sessions for the singer's 1986 album, So. It was 'rediscovered' during the search for materials for the So 25th anniversary box set
“We weren’t concerned with reputation then, and I’m not concerned with it now,” writes Ian McLagan in the introduction to our new Ultimate Music Guide. “If you’re thinking seriously about your career, you’re not having any fun, and that transfers to the audience.”
