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Nirvana, Paul Weller and Oasis are among the artists who have contributed releases to Record Store Day 2014. Paul Weller will release new material on a seven-inch, with the single limited to just 2,500 copies. Meanwhile, Nirvana's 'Pennyroyal Tea' will be released on the same format and Oasis' debut single 'Supersonic' will be re-released on 12-inch. A full list of all of this year's releases can be found on the official Record Store Day website.

A letter from John Lennon to Phil Spector blaming The Who drummer Keith Moon and singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson for urinating on a console at an LA recording studio is up for auction in London tomorrow (March 21), with an estimated value of £6,000.

A campaign has been launched to raise money to turn Kurt Cobain's childhood home into a museum.

Paul Rodgers takes us through his career in albums in the new issue of Uncut, dated April 2014 and out now.

Kate Bush has announced she will play a series of live shows later this year. Bush will play 15 shows at London's Eventim Apollo Hammersmith starting on August 26. The title of the shows is Before The Dawn. Tickets will go on sale from 9.30am on Friday, March 28. These are Bush's first major live dates since 1979's Tour of Life, since when she has given only the occasional live performance. Tickets are available only from the following outlets: www.eventim.co.uk, www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk.

The Rolling Stones have rescheduled a series of shows in Australia and New Zealand for October, after they were postponed following the death of L'Wren Scott. A list of the dates affected by the postponement can be found below. Promoters Frontier Touring have urged fans with tickets to hold on to their tickets for the rescheduled shows, which they claim will come in October and November, though no specific dates have yet been announced.

Iggy Pop has cast doubt on the future of The Stooges following the death of Scott Asheton aged 64 earlier this week.

Neil Young has postponed the Record Store Day reissue of his long-out-of-print 1973 album, Time Fades Away. The album was scheduled for release as part of Young's Official Release Series Discs 5-8 Vinyl Box Set, alongside On The Beach, Tonight's The Night and Zuma.

With the release of his latest album, Beauty & Ruin, on June 3, Bob Mould is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular An Audience With… feature. So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask the legendary musician? What does he remember of the Minneapolis music scene during the late Seventies in the earliest days of Hüsker Dü? How did Sugar end up signing to Creation Records in the 1990s? What did he learn from his stint writing scripts for professional wrestling in the late 1990s?

REM will release two Unplugged concerts for Record Store Day 2014. The band will put out Unplugged: The Complete 1991 And 2001 Sessions on April 19, Rolling Stone reports.