Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are set to launch their new album, Push The Sky Away, with a special live show at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on February 10.
The band will be playing the album in full with strings and a choir. A short film by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard about the making of the album, which is out February 18, will also be screened at the event.
Similar events will be held in Paris at Trianon (February 11), Berlin Admiralspalast (February 13) and Los Angeles Fonda Theatre (February 21).
Tickets go on sale at Nickcave.com at 4pm (GMT) on January 17.
My Bloody Valentine are set to play a warm-up show for their 2013 tour at the 1,500 capacity Electric Brixton in London on January 27.
The show comes ahead of their Asian tour dates and before the band start their UK tour in March. Tickets for the show are on sale now.
My Bloody Valentine have also just have added a Birmingham date to their UK tour.
The next Uncut Ultimate Music Guide goes on sale on Thursday (January 17), hot on the heels of our special on The Kinks, and is dedicated this time to The Beatles. There’s the usual mix of brand new reviews of all The Beatles albums by our current team of writers alongside some truly remarkable interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, for which the description ‘mind-blowing’ seems barely adequate.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have unveiled a brand new song, called 'Jubilee Street'.
Scroll down to listen to the track and view the song's lyric video.
The downbeat "Jubilee Street" is the second song to be taken from the band's forthcoming new album Push The Sky Away, following the track "We No Who U R".
Push The Sky Away will be Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' 15th studio album and is set for release on February 19.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced that their new album Mosquito will be released on April 15, 2013.
Mosquito will be the band's fourth LP and the follow-up to 2009's It's Blitz. It sees the band again working with long-time producer David Sitek and Nick Launay, and was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, where 'It's Blitz' was recorded.
One track is produced by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy<.strong> and features Dr Octagon. The artwork was designed by Beomsik Shimbe Shim.
High street music, DVD and computer games retailer HMV has confirmed that it is going into administration.
A statement released to Music Week reads:
"It is proposed that Nick Edwards, Neville Kahn and Rob Harding, partners of Deloitte LLP, will be appointed as the administrators of the Company and certain of its subsidiaries. The Company's ordinary shares will be suspended from trading on the London Stock Exchange with immediate effect."
George Harrison's widow Olivia has halted a campaign to erect a statue of the late Beatle near his Oxfordshire home.
James Lambert, from Henley-on-Thames, where Harrisson lived until his death in 2001, wrote to Olivia Harrison about his campaign to erect a bronze statue in her late husband's honour. She replied stating that she would prefer a community project instead.
