Alan McGee says he is “seriously considering” bringing back his iconic Creation Records.

The pioneering label, whose rosta included Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, Felt and Super Furry Animals, was disbanded in 1999.

However, its boss Alan McGee says he is thinking about bringing it back: “Since spending the summer helping curate [the festival] Tokyo Rocks for next year it’s made me realise I do still love it! It was when I was flying back from Japan with the Primals that started me loving it again,” he said in a statement. He added:To be honest I am now seriously thinking about restarting Creation, or maybe Re-Creation if I can find the right people at a label to work with. Music needs a kick in the balls, and I have got the music buzz back.Creation Records was set up in 1983. McGee sold half the label to Sony in 1992, before dissolving it fully in 1999 to form his own label Poptones, which signed The Hives. Poptones wound down in 2007, with McGee citing financial reasons.

Last year. McGee said he was in talks about potential feature film about the label.

The Horrors frontman Faris Badwan and his Cat’s Eyes collaborator Rachel Zeffira have announced that they are setting up their own record label.

RAF Recordings’ first release will be Zeffira’s solo debut LP The Deserters, which will be released on December 10.

The Deserters was written and produced entirely by the Canadian multi-instrumentalist and features an all-star east London cast including krautrockers Toy and SCUM’s drummer Mel Rigby. You can listen to the first track to be taken from the album, ‘Break the Spell’, below.

Speaking NME, abut the album Zeffira said: “I wanted to stay true to myself. It’s my own album. I’m producing it. And I wanted it to be my own stuff… I just wanted this to be my own honest thing”.

She added: “I guess the closest artist I can reference is Nick Drake. Something like ‘River Man’. I’ve always really admired those string arrangements.”

Rachel Zeffira will play her debut solo show at St Andrew Church, Holborn on October 18.

Suede frontman Brett Anderson has said that the album he and the band are currently recording sounds like “a cross between bits of Dog Man Star and bits of Coming Up.”

Speaking to The Quietus, Anderson explained that their sixth album, “doesn’t sound anything like” their last LP, 2002’s A New Morning, but has more in common with their second album, released in 1994, and their third, which came out in 1996.

Of the record, he added: “Without wishing to be facetious, it sounds like Suede. We’re not trying to reinvent the sound of the band, that’d be a disastrous thing to do. I think that’s possibly where we went wrong on the last two albums.”

Anderson said that the band have been writing for the past year and recording “on and off”, with one session in May, and another set for this month at Sarm Studios in Notting Hill. He explained that though he’s ‘loving’ the recording process, it has been hard work. “Any album is brutally hard, and this one has been pretty hard,” he said.

He continued: “A lot of the writing process for me is throwing stuff away, because you’re finding out what you want to do. There was a lot of that, and we discarded quite a few songs. Early this year we started hitting on the sort of songs that we were aiming to write, and it’s sounding really good now.”

Suede debuted a new track called “For The Strangers” at the Hop Farm Music Festival in July. The band are working with producer Ed Buller, who worked on their first three LPs.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have revealed the track listing and release date for Psychedelic Pill, their second album of 2012 following Americana.

According to Rolling Stone, the album will be released on October 30 in double-CD and triple-LP formats.

“It’s us jamming and having lots of fun,” Crazy Horse guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro told Rolling Stone earlier this summer. “I think that [former Crazy Horse producer] David Briggs would be proud of it… Once he was gone, I felt like we lost our compass a bit. We had the sound and we had the big machine, and we could play anything and play pretty good, but we weren’t putting any great records together. I mean, Broken Arrow was OK. It wasn’t like Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere or Rust Never Sleeps or Ragged Glory.”

Speaking to Uncut earlier this year, Young said after Americana, “I realised I was in a groove. Right around the time of Americana was finished, I started writing again, so I just kept on going. Pretty soon I had enough songs for a second album.”

Track list for Psychedelic Pill:

Disc One:

4) Born in Ontario

Disc Two:

5) Psychedelic Pill (Alternate Mix)

A New York judge has rejected part of a lawsuit brought by the The Velvet Underground against the the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over the use of the iconic banana symbol from their 1967 album The Velvet Underground And Nico.

In January this year, the defunct 1960s band filed a lawsuit seeking to block its iconic Andy Warhol-designed banana being used on covers for iPads and iPhones after reports that they had agreed to license the design for a series of cases, sleeves and bags.

According to the lawsuit, the group claimed the banana design is synonymous with The Velvet Underground and demanded that Warhol’s foundation stop licensing the image and pay them for past licensing.

According to the Hollywood Reporter a judge has now ruled that the band do not have a valid copyright claim. However, they can continue pursuing the Foundation for trademark infringement – in which they would need to argue the case that the Foundation’s use of the banana causes “confusion as to … affiliation, approval or sponsorship” by the group.

The Warhol Foundation has responded by pointing to the fact that the Velvet Underground broke up in 1972 and that trademarks are only relevant if they are linked to an ongoing business.

In July, The Velvet underground announced that they would reissue the album as part of a six-disc package on October 1 to celebrate its 45th anniversary.

A long-lost demo of the Sex Pistols‘ controversial track “Belsen Was a Gas” has emerged online – watch it above.

The track, about the Nazi concentration camp, was written by Sid Vicious prior to him joining the band. With added input from Johnny Rotten, it became part of the band’s live set from 1977. However, only live versions and a post-Rotten 1978 recording with Ronnie Biggs on vocal had previously existed.

The band have since played the track on live shows – including at festival appearances throughout summer 2008 – where Lydon updated the track as a protest to the US and UK’s invasion of Iraq, renaming it “Baghdad Was A Blast”.

The demo was recorded at the Pistols Denmark Street rehearsal room by their soundman John ‘Boogie’ Tiberi on a TEAC four-track. “John decided to work on ‘Belsen’ with Sid, rearranging the lyrics while Steve and Paul worked on the track and I wired up Denmark Street to put it down to a four-track,” he remembers.

Tiberi added: “It really shouldn’t have to be said but that’s Sid on bass. It was very clumsy, no monitors, sound insulation was non-existent. I think they all enjoyed doing it outside of the Wessex environment, which had by then become quite oppressive. When I played it to [Pistols producer] Chris Thomas he probably thought I was barmy and couldn’t understand the reverb vocal, but that’s the way John wanted it. I thought it was good as a kind of sketch idea.”

The demo was through lost but has now been restored and will feature on the box set deluxe reissue of the band’s seminal album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols on September 24 to celebrate its 35th anniversary.

Led Zeppelin have posted a video teaser ahead of the expected announcement that they will be releasing a DVD of their 2007 reunion concert at the O2 Arena. Scroll down to watch the video.

The band reunited to play the Ahmet Ertegun concert in December 2007 at the O2 arena in London, but a DVD of the much sought after gig has never been released.

The video reveals very little and simply features the band’s four runes logo with the noise of cheering crowd in the background.

It is expected that the DVD will be out in time for Christmas, and, according to a source in today’s copy of The Sun, Jimmy Page has spent the last few months working on the DVD.

A source told the tabloid: “Jimmy Page has been in the studio making sure everything is perfect. The band want it to remain true to their exceptionally high standards. It’s coming out on November 22 as part of a simultaneous global release.”

Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has previously ruled out another reunion of the band, saying in a 2011 interview with Rolling Stone: “I’ve gone so far somewhere else that I almost can’t relate to it… It’s a bit of a pain in the pisser to be honest. Who cares? I know people care, but think about it from my angle – soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXIU4nW-ZUc

Three people have been killed and a number of others seriously injured after a coach returning from Bestival overturned after crashing into a tree last night (September 10).

The 51-seater coach was going north on the A3 road in Surrey when the crash happened near the Hindhead Tunnel at 11.50pm (BST) last night. According to BBC News, the coach veered off the carriageway between the tunnel and the Thursley exit and hit a tree. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

Three people were declared dead at the scene, while a number of passengers have been taken to hospital for treatment. One had to be airlifted to Southampton General Hospital with “life-changing injuries”, said police.

Speaking about the incident, investigating officer Inspector Richard Mallett said: “I understand the road was dry. We cannot see any reason that the road conditions would have had any effect on what occurred.”

Surrey Police Assistant Chief Constable Jerry Kirkby added: “This has been declared a major incident and we are working with our colleagues from the other emergency services and other partner agencies to provide a co-ordinated response in line with agreed protocols. Our thoughts remain with the relatives of the dead and the injured at this time and we are working very hard to notify their next of kin.”

The coach was owned by Merseyside Travel, whose owner Dave Hannel said that the coach left Aintree on Wednesday to travel to Bestival on the Isle of Wight and would have been returning home.

Bestival took place this weekend and featured headline sets from New Order, Florence And The Machine and Stevie Wonder.

Elbow have extended their UK arena tour, which is set to take place in November.

The band have now added a gig at London’s Wembley Arena to their run of shows, which already included five other UK shows.

The tour kicks off at Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena on November 26, the band will then play Wembley Arena on November 27 before they head to Birmingham NIA on November 28 and then Liverpool’s Echo Area on November 29, before heading to their Manchester hometown on December 1. They will finish up at London’s The O2 on December 2.

Last month , Elbow released a B-sides compilation titled Dead In The Boot, featuring 13 B-sides and non-album tracks which have been selected by the band as favourites from their 15-year career.

In a statement on the band’s website, singer Guy Garvey said: “None of our B-sides are album rejects. It’s a different space, usually just post finishing an album when all the members of Elbow are chiming and feeling very creative. This gives Dead In The Boot a real late night vibe.”

Elbow will play:

Nottingham Capital FM Arena (November 26)

London O2 Arena (2)

Sigur Ros have announced a full UK tour for March next year.

The Icelandic band, who released their new album Valtari in May, will play five shows on the tour.

The dates begin at Glasgow SECC on March 2 and end on March 8, when the band play the second of two dates at London’s O2 Academy Brixton. They will also play gigs at Manchester’s O2 Apollo and Wolverhampton Civic Hall.

‘Valtari’ is the sixth release from the Icelandic band and the follow up to 2008’s ‘Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust’, marking an end to their short-lived “indefinite hiatus”.

The run of UK dates is part of a full European tour which will also see the band visit Portugal, Italy, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and France. The band are also booked to tour Australia later this year.

Sigur Ros will play:

Glasgow SECC (March 2)

O2 Academy Brixton (7, 8)

At an auction in Stockport, near Manchester on Saturday (September 8), a Bible which was given to Elvis Presley by his uncle Vester and aunt Clettes for his first Christmas at Graceland in 1957, fetched £59,000 after being sold to an unnamed American man based in the UK. The book was only expected to make £25,000.

Karen Fairweather of Omega Auctions said of the selling the bible, which was annotated by Elvis: “It was a really exciting atmosphere in the room, we had 300 people and there was bidding online and on the telephone across the world. You could hear a pin drop when it sold for that price… There was a round of applause when the hammer went down. It was incredible.”

At the same auction, a pair of stained underpants owned and worn by Presley failed to sell.

The pants, which were worn by Presley underneath one of his jumpsuits during a performance in 1977, hadn’t been washed since Elvis took them off, and featured a suspicious yellow stain on the front of the crotch.

Though bids for the item reached £5,000, the underwear did not sell as the reserve price of £7,000 was not reached, reports BBC News.

This year’s London Film Festival opens for business in October.

As to be expected, the quality appears extremely high – we are to be spoilt with new films from Michael Haneke, Jaques Audiard and Michael Winterbottom, as well as documentaries on the Stones, Ginger Baker amd artist Ralph Steadman.

Here, anyway, are half a dozen films I’m looking forward to seeing. The festival runs from October 10 – 21, and you can find a full programme here.

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

Drew DeNicola

Following on from the Big Star Third shows at the Barbican in May, Drew DeNicola’s Kickstarter funded film tells the band’s story, with recollections from Jody Stephens, REM’s Mike Mills, Evan Dando and more.

Seven Psychopaths

Director: Martin McDonagh

Great title. Unconstructed crime caper from In Bruges’ McDonagh, reunited here with Colin Farrell. Also stars Sam Rockwell, Wood Harrelson, Christopher Walken and Tom Waits. Of considerable interest.

Amour

Michael Haneke

Austrian filmmaker Haneke’s latest intelligent and insightful drama, about a retired music teacher tending his stroke-damaged wife in their Paris apartment.

Crossfire Hurricane

Director: Brett Morgen

It’s that 50th anniversary Stones’ doc. Director Brett Morgen – who made The Kid Stays In The Picture documentary about film producer Robert Evans – has been given full access to the Stones archive, and conducted fresh interviews with the band.

Argo

Director: Ben Affleck

Affleck also stars as an “exfiltration” operative, charged with rescuing six Americans from revolutionary Iran in 1980. His cover? As a movie producer, scouting desert locations for a cheap Star Wars knock-off.

Good Vibrations

Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn

The story of Terri Hooley, the godfather of Belfast punk, and his Good Vibrations label and record shop, against the backdrop of, and in response to, sectarian violence. David Holmes provides the soundtrack.

Jay-Z has hit out at the Occupy Wall Street Movement, accusing protestors of not being clear about what they want.

When asked about last year’s activity at Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, where activists set up camp as the campaign went global in more than 80 countries last year, he told the New York Times: “What’s the thing on the wall, what are you fighting for?”

He also says he told rap mogul and prominent Occupy supporter Russell Simmons the same: “I’m not going to a park and picnic, I have no idea what to do, I don’t know what the fight is about. What do we want, do you know?”

He added: “I think all those things need to really declare themselves a bit more clearly. Because when you just say that ‘the one per cent is that,’ that’s not true. Yeah, the one per cent that’s robbing people, and deceiving people, these fixed mortgages and all these things, and then taking their home away from them, that’s criminal, that’s bad. Not being an entrepreneur. This is free enterprise. This is what America is built on.”

Last year the rapper , who is worth an estimated $450m, was branded a “bloodsucker” by the Occupy Wall Street movement after his clothing company Rocawear produced a t-shirt that bears the slogan ‘Occupy Wall Street’, but did not offer to give the movement any of the profits.

Muse and their record label Warner Music are facing a $3.5 million (£2.2 million) lawsuit from a man who claims that they “ripped off” their 2009 track Exogenesis from his sci-fi rock opera of the same name.

Charles Bolfrass filed the lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan last week and has accused the band of stealing his “cinematic science-fiction rock opera” called ‘Exogenesis’, reports Courthouse News.

Bolfrass alleges that he contacted the Devon trio and two other bands in 2005 with the idea to write a sci-fi rock opera about space travel after the demise of the planet Earth.

He then says that Muse rejected his idea in the following year, but then alleges that the band chose to copy his idea on three tracks on their 2009 album The Resistance’. The tracks are titled “Exogenesis I”, “Exogenesis II” and “Exogenesis III”.

Bollfrass also claims the cover of The Resistance has an image that the band stole from the storyboards of his rock opera. He is suing Warner Music for copyright infringement, unfair trade practices and unfair competition.

Muse release their new album The 2nd Law on October 1 and will undertake a short UK arena tour in the same month.

The Devon trio will tour the UK in October, playing five shows. The gigs begin at Glasgow’s SECC on October 24, before the band move onto London’s O2 Arena for two shows on October 26 and 27. They then play Birmingham LG Arena on October 30 before finishing up at Manchester Arena on November 1.

They are also confirmed for the iTunes Festival and will headline London’s Roundhouse on September 30.

Thom Yorke unveiled new tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in Long Island, US, last night at the PS1 Warm Up summer concert series.

Taking to the stage with producer Nigel Godrich, the duo performed new material, which you can watch videos for below, as well as sampling tracks including Azealia Banks’ “212” and Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime”, according Consequence of Sound.

Last week, Atoms for Peace unveiled the first single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album, which is due in 2013.

Thom Yorke features in the group alongside longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Flea as well as drummer Joey Waronker and percussionist Mauro Refosco.

Yorke said in a statement: “You may have heard that I have a new project called Atoms For Peace. The name comes from some shows of The Eraser that happened a couple of years ago with Mauro, Joey, Nigel and Flea.”

He added: “We got a big buzz from them and discovered loads of energy from transforming the music from electronic to live, and so afterwards, we carried on for a few days in the studio and decided to make it a loose, on-going thing. Immersed in the area between the two… electronic and live.”

Paul McCartney joined Damon Albarn on stage at the Africa Express show in London on Saturday night [September 8].

Appearing as a surprise special guest, the former Beatle first appeared playing bass on Rokia Traore’s “Dounia”, with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones on mandolin, before playing Wings’ “Coming Up” and “Goodnight Tonight” with the Blur front man, Tony Allen and Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals among others.

Other highlights of the 5-hour show included Kano and Bashy joining John Paul Jones for Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”, Spoek Mathambo’s reworking of Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control” and Damon and Rokia Traore’s spellbinding duet on Gorillaz’s “On Melancholy Hill”.

The gig was the final stop for the Africa Express; a collective of musicians, including former Libertine Carl Barat and Jon McClure, who travelled to Middlesbrough, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff and Bristol on a chartered train to play special shows.

Earlier in the day, McCartney was awarded the French Legion of Honour – the highest public distinction a French President can bestow upon a member of the public – at a ceremony in Paris.

The singer was decorated by French President Francois Hollande during the ceremony at the Eylsse Palace, and joins actor Clint Eastwood and singer Barbara Streisand as an officer of the Legion of Honour.

After receiving his award, McCartney then boarded a Eurostar to London to perform at the gig in Granary Square. The former Beatle was greeted by Damon Albarn when he arrived at King’s Cross station.

Leonard Cohen played two shows at London’s Wembley Arena over this last weekend [September 8 and 9].

On Saturday, the singer songwriter played an epic set of over three hours, taking to the stage just before 8pm (BST) and finishing up around 11.30pm, with a short interval in the middle of the show.

The 77 year old played a host of classic tracks, as well as material from his latest album, Old Ideas – which was released at the start of this year – including the tracks “Darkness”, “Going Home” and “Amen”. Cohen cut a lively figure during the gig, performing many songs on bended knee and skipping on and off the stage when he returned for two encores and for the intermission.

Cohen apologised to his fans for the late venue change for the weekend’s shows, which were initially supposed to take place at Hop Farm in Kent, site of the annual Hop Farm Festival. After the evening’s opening song, “Dance Me To The End Of Love”, he said sorry for any inconvenience caused and added: “I want you to know I learned about it [the venue switch] the same time you did. There are unseen hands that manipulate the marketplace. Hands that I never get to see…or crush.”

Accompanied by backing vocalists The Webb Sisters and Sharon Robinson as well as a global band, Cohen’s 30 song set saw him perform his 1984 track “Hallelujah”, as well as “So Long Marianne”, which started a mass singalong from the crowd that led to Cohen telling the audience: “you sing so sweet”.

From his 1967 debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen he also played “Suzanne” and “Sisters Of Mercy” and from his 1969 album Songs From A Room he performed “The Partisan” and “Bird On The Wire”. He received a number of standing ovations throughout the set.

Leonard Cohen played:

‘Dance Me To The End Of Love’

‘Save The Last Dance For Me’