A campaign led by Billy Bragg has successfully seen prisoners in British jails allowed to use steel stringed guitars.
Musicians including Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway, Elbow's Guy Garvey, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Johnny Marr also supported the campaign to overturn the ban on steel-strung guitars in British prisons. The campaign was also led by Cardiff West MP Kevin Brennan, who has commented:
Roger Waters is preparing to reissue his 1992 solo album, Amused To Death.
The project contains brand new stereo and 5.1 mixes from Waters' long term collaborator, Pink Floyd’s sound engineer, James Guthrie, and will come with additional never before released content and new graphics.
The album will be reportedly released on both Super Audio CD and 200g vinyl.
Syd Barrett's back catalogue has been made available on Spotify.
The music streaming service is now hosting the two studio albums The Madcap Laughs (1970) and Barrett (1970), the rarities album Opel (1988), a 1970 John Peel Session and the 2010 An Introduction To Syd Barrett, which compiles Barrett material, solo and with Pink Floyd.
The release follows the launch of Pink Floyd’s entire catalogue on Spotify in June 2013.
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Pearl Jamhave announced details of a brand new studio album, Lightning Bolt, to be released in October.
The album will be the US band's tenth in total and their first since 2009's Backspacer. The first track to be taken from the album, "Mind Your Manners", can be heard above, now.
Speaking earlier this year, guitarist Mike McCready said the content of the album, which will again be produced by Brendan O'Brien, was inspired by Pink Floyd and punk rock, adding that the record is "experimental".
Warner Music Group has bought the Parlophone record label for £487 million.
Universal Music has sold the home of Blur, Coldplay and Pink Floyd to Warners, who have said that they will be paying in cash for the label, which used to be part of EMI Music.
Universal took over EMI in September of last year, but had to sell some of the company's assets in order to take care of concerns about competition, reports BBC News.
Roger Waters will take his live show of The Wall back on the road in Europe next year.
Waters will play London’s Wembley Stadium on 14 September 2013, plus 24 dates in Europe. The 2013 shows will all take place outside.
At a press conference in London today [November 15], Waters also spoke about the likelihood of his former Pink Floyd bandmates – specifically David Gilmour – appearing on stage during the new batch of dates. Waters was joined by Gilmour and Nick Mason last year at London’s O2.
The Flaming Lips have recorded a track-by-track cover version of King Crimson's classic 1969 debut In the Court of the Crimson King.
The new cover album, called Playing Hide And Seek With The Ghosts Of Dawn, follows on from their 2010 cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.
The album includes collaborations with New Fumes, Linear Downfall, Spaceface and Stardeath and White Dwarfs.
It's currently being streamed here: http://satelliteheartradio.com/
The Flaming Lips release a new studio album, The Terror, in the New Year.
