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Beck has covered Prince's classic song "1999" during a live performance. Beck played a portion of the track during his show at last month's Montreal International Jazz Fest, reports Consequence Of Sound . Click below to watch fan-shot footage of the rendition, which follows the singer's cover of Arcade Fire's "Rebellion (Lies)" at Coachella Festival in April.

Neutral Milk Hotel have announced that they will reunite to play their first live shows since 1999. The band have been on hiatus since their last studio album – 1998's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and its subsequent tour. Aside from a 2001 live album and a 2002 album of Bulgarian music, the band have been keeping a low profile – although singer Jeff Mangum played a string of solo dates in 2010 and curated ATP at Butlins in Minehead in March last year (2012).

Cliche-free avant word-hop from the Bay Area's finest

Two punk outfits of varying quality anthologised

The 1970s Cockney Rebel behind one of the era's most enduring songs

A handy primer to the ever-expanding catalogue of the Aussie experimentalist

Their ornate third single marked a progression from their garage-band beginnings....