Laurie Anderson has described Lou Reed's final moments in a moving farewell written for Rolling Stone.
Anderson's tribute describes how the couple met and married, and details Reed's ill health over the past two years. It explains that Reed first became sick from treatments of interferon before developing liver cancer and advancing diabetes.
Arctic Monkeys have announced details of details of an American tour in January and February 2014.
The dates include their biggest headline show in the States so far - at New York's Madison Square Garden on February 8. Starting in Miami on January 30, the tour will visit 12 cities in total, ending in Minneapolis on February 14. Deerhunter will provide support for the New York and Boston dates.
The owner of a London record store has put his entire shop up for sale on eBay.
Listed with a 'Buy It Now' price of £300,000, the listing begins: "Live your dream and enter a rock’n’roll lifestyle – your chance to run a record shop!"
On The Beat Records was opened by Tim Derbyshire in 1979 on Hanway Street, near Tottenham Court Road. Almost 35 years later it sells a range of collectible vinyl from 1960s psychedelia to grunge with funk, soul, jazz, folk, country and library music.
Thurston Moore's new band, Thurston Moore UK, are set to support Lee Ranaldo and the Dust at London's Garage venue on November 21.
Lee Ranaldo and the Dust are made up of Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Alan Licht and Tim Luntzel. They released their new album Last Night On Earth last month. Following the London show, the band play All Tomorrow's Parties festival at Camber Sands Pontins on November 22.
The Who are opening a new pop-up shop and pinball arcade.
The shop will open from November 7 - 15 at 19 Fouberts Place, off Carnaby Street in London.
The pop-up shop will stock The Who and Tommy merchandise as well as original 1970s pinball machines, including a very rare Tommy machine.
The shop will also host a number of competitions. Whoever gets the highest score on the original Tommy pinball machine will win a special Fender Stratocaster signed by Pete Townshend.
Morrissey's collaborator Boz Boorer has said the singer has an 'arsenal' of new material.
Speaking to God Is In The TV, Boorer was asked about the 'music industry slump' and said that Morrissey has been unable to score a record deal, but has still been actively writing new material. He commented: "Not with regard to shows but Morrissey is unable to secure a record deal so we haven't made a record in a few years, despite having an arsenal of new material." Morrissey's last album, Years Of Refusal, was released in 2009 through Decca/Polydor.
A preview of the second volume of The Beatles<'strong>' Live At The BBC collection is being streamed online – listen to it below.
The original collection of recordings was released in 1994, hitting No 1 in the UK charts and selling more than five million copies worldwide within its first six weeks of release. Its follow-up, On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 will be released on Monday, November 11.
Patti Smith has written a tribute to the late Lou Reed, commenting on The Velvet Underground frontman's "kindness, sincerity and empathy".
Writing in The New Yorker, Smith recounts first meeting Reed in the 1970s when she was taken to see The Velvet Underground by a friend.
She also recalls seeing Reed with his wife, Laurie Anderson, recently and sensing that her friend was ill.
Neil Young has released a trailed for Live At The Cellar Door, the latest instalment of his Archives series.
You can watch the clip below.
Live At The Cellar Door - recorded during Young's six-show stand at Washington DC's Cellar Door between November 30, 1970 and December 2, 1970 - will be released on December 10, 2013.
Live At The Cellar Door track list:
Side One:
"Tell Me Why"
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
"After the Gold Rush"
"Expecting to Fly"
"Bad Fog of Loneliness"
"Old Man Birds"
Side Two:
The Replacements and Paul Westerberg are both due the vinyl reissue treatment.
The Replacements are to release their final album, 1990′s All Shook Down, on vinyl for the first time in America on Record Store Day’s Black Friday.
Meanwhile, Westerberg's second solo album, 1996′s Eventually, also will make its debut on vinyl early next year.
