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Arctic Monkeys could be set to play at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony tonight. Last month, a leaked document reportedly showed that Arctic Monkeys were set to feature in tomorrow's spectacle. Other names on the list were Muse, Happy Mondays, M.I.A and Adele.

The first professionally-shot live footage of The Stone Roses in 16 years has appeared online - scroll down to watch it. The five-minute video shows the band performing "I Wanna Be Adored" at Benicassim on July 14. The song was the opening number of the band's 16-song set at the Spanish festival. Frontman Ian Brown kicks off with a few words of Spanish before grabbing a glowstick as the band begins to play. However, professionally-shot footage of other songs from the performance have yet to appear online.

Martha Wainwright is set to release her brand new album, Come Home To Mama, on October 15. The album was recorded at Sean Lennon's home studio in New York City and was produced was Yuka C Honda of Cibo Matto and features guest musicians Nels Cline of Wilco on guitar, Thomas Bartlett on keys, Brad Albetta – Wainwright's husband - on bass and Jim White on drums.

The Flaming Lips answer your questions in the new issue of Uncut, out tomorrow. Wayne Coyne takes your queries, as well as those from famous fans, on subjects including David Bowie, Oklahoma City and his favourite bugs. Asked how he came to meet William Burroughs, Coyne explained that the band spent time hanging out with the Beat icon in Lawrence, Kansas, not far from Oklahoma. “We ended up spending this extraordinary day with William and his friends, shooting pistols. For me it’s a big deal just to shoot guns at all, but to shoot guns with Burroughs?”

Bruce Springsteen has disclosed he's been seeing a therapist since 1982. Speaking to David Remnick for an interview in The New Yorker magazine, Springsteen admitted, "You cannot underestimate the fine power of self-loathing in all of this." Springsteen reportedly began attending counsellling sessions while he was working on his Nebraska album.

A super deluxe boxset of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols album is set to be released in order to celebrate it's 35th anniversary. The boxset will be available from September 24 through Universal Music UK and will feature music, footage, interviews, pictures and other artefacts.

Happy Mondays are planning a new album, they have confirmed. The Manchester band's management told NME that they are working on a new record, which will be the first time all the original line-up of the band recorded new material album of new material since 1992's Yes Please!.

Animal Collective look back over their entire career in the brand new issue of Uncut.

The Velvet Underground's classic debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is set to be re-released as a six disc package on October 1. The 1967 album will be re-released in order to celebrate its 45th anniversary. The six discs will include the original stereo and mono versions of the album, as well as Nico's Chelsea Girl album and two live discs taken from a show at the Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.

Dinosaur Jr's new album features a funk influence and a song about vampires. The band are set to release their tenth studio album I Bet On The Sky on September 17. "There's a couple of songs with more of a groove, a little bit mellower, but there’s some heavier stuff on it too," singer J Mascis told NME. "It's funky for us, but not that funky. I like the first song 'Don't Pretend You Didn't Know' the best, that’s one of the funkier numbers, it seemed to come together in a good way."