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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."

Joe Strummer’s secret history is revealed in the new issue of Uncut.

Lou Reed is set to play a one-off London show as part of the Antony-curated Meltdown festival this August. The former Velvet Underground frontman will play at London's Royal Festival Hall on August 10, as part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World with MasterCard. We have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky winner to see Reed's Meltdown show, as well as a signed self portrait photo, and Meantime ale to drink throughout the night for free.

New Order have announced their first North American since 2005. The band's seven-date tour begins in San Francisco before visiting Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Said singer Bernard Sumner said, “We’ve been having such a great time together this year, playing shows all over Europe, and we're all really excited to be playing America again. We have so many friends and fans there we can't wait to get back!" New Order's last American show was at the Hammerstein Ballroom in May, 2005. Their last Canadian show was 11 years ago, in 2001.