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Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore played his first gig with new band Chelsea Light Moving last week. The four-piece, which consists of Moore along with Keith Wood on guitar, Samara Lubelski on bass and John Moloney on drums, played their debut show at Brooklyn's 285 Kent, Spin reports. They played an eight-song set, presumably made up of tracks from their forthcoming album, which they are currently recording and will be released on Matador.

Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash has spoken about his recent revelation that he once discovered his mother naked with David Bowie. The legendary axeman, who released his second solo album Apocalyptic Love in May, revealed to Australian radio station Triple M that he walked in on his costume-designer mother Ola Hudson and Bowie in the nude together when he was just eight years old. The anecdote was widely reported, something that the guitarist now says he was "embarrassed" about and that the whole revelation was "very awkward".

Matt Helders' mum has confirmed that Arctic Monkeys are in the desert recording the follow-up to Suck It And See. Responding to internet rumours suggesting that Arctic Monkeys are set to enter the studio for their fifth album soon and have already chosen the recording location, the drummer's mum - Jill Helders tweeted: "I don't know if it helps to clear things up but lads are in the desert!" She added: "And now we start on 5th album titles!".

Ryan Adams has revealed that he will be drumming on and producing the next album from The Lemonheads. Adams took to Twitter to break the news, writing: Playing drums on the Lemonheads records too. Dream come true... Back to the punker sounds As well as drumming, he will also be producing the record, which will feature Evan Dando alongside The Lemonheads' founding member Ben Deily – who left the band in 1989 - and the band's former bassist, Juliana Hatfield, who appeared on 1992's It's A Shame About Ray.

The unhinged story of Siouxsie & The Banshees’ A Kiss In The Dreamhouse album is told in the new issue of Uncut (dated November 2012), out this Friday (September 21).

A weirdly deserted Uncut office today, so it falls on me to break off from my usual arduous routine - tooling around on Twitter, listening to Hiss Golden Messenger bootlegs, wondering what time the cricket starts – and write this week’s newsletter blog.

The tumultuous making of The Byrds’ The Notorious Byrd Brothers is examined in the new issue of Uncut (November 2012), out on Friday (September 21). David Crosby, Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn are all interviewed about this pivotal period, 1967-68, in the band’s history, which left only Hillman and McGuinn remaining from the original five-piece. Talking about being sacked during the sessions, Crosby tells Uncut: “As for Notorious, it was, for me, obviously much better that I left.

As he releases his new soundtrack, for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film The Master, Jonny Greenwood is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature. So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask him? How does composing soundtracks differ from his work in Radiohead? Any plans for a follow-up to the brilliant dub reggae comp, Jonny Greenwood Is Controller? As a fan of the ondes Martenot, has he bought any interesting new musical instruments lately?

Manic Street Preachers have confirmed full details of plans to re-issue their 1992 debut Generation Terrorists. The 18 track LP is being re-released on November 5 to celebrate the record's 20th anniversary. It will come in five different formats including a re-mastered single CD, a download version, plus two different special edition versions featuring unheard exclusive songs and demos, unseen film footage, home movies and unique artwork.

AC/DC have announced that they will be releasing their first live album in 20 years in November. The album, which is titled AC/DC Live At River Plate, was recorded in Argentina at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires' in December 2009. The band played to nearly 200,000 people over the course of the three nights they played at the stadium.