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25th-anniversary reissue of the rock giants’ ambitious fourth LP

A quick heads-up on the next free Uncut CD today, which Allan has compiled (with a few suggestions from me) to go with the new issue’s Velvet Underground cover story.

Lydia Lunch, Mark Lanegan, Raveonettes also complete Jeffrey Lee Pierce songs

His legendary performance, delivered in full on audio, and in part on DVD

Autobahn to Tour De France; Scientific principles elicit unscientific pleasures

Preview live collection of the Glitter and Doom tour now

I can’t pretend that we’ve been playing the Bob Dylan album that much, but a bit of interesting Dylan news did surface this week; that a previously unreleased song from the “Bringing It All Back Home” sessions called “California” is set to appear, with characteristic weirdness, on something entitled “NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Vol. 2”.

Major Tom returns with an additional disc of alternate mixes and session takes

Just in case you haven’t come across it yet, the first song to surface from Vampire Weekend’s forthcoming “Contra” album (due early January, I believe) turned up on their website yesterday.

Plus fans can enter a 'Cooper-Oke' contest to win cash!