Jack White has unveiled a special vinyl 'Ultra' version of his forthcoming new album, Lazaretto.
The 180 gram release will feature two vinyl-only hidden tracks, which will be situated under the labels on the record, with one playing at 78 rpm and one at 45 rpm, making the release a three speed album.
R.E.M's Peter Buck and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney are recording with Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic, it has been revealed.
It was recently announced that Buck and Tucker had formed the band Super-Earth alongside guitarist Scott McCaughey (Minus 5), drummer Bill Rieflin (Swans, Ministry) and guitarist Kurt Bloch. That line-up of the band made their live debut in Portland last week (April 30).
Sonic Youth will reissue their 1988 album Daydream Nation next month [June].
The band confirmed a series of reissue plans via a post on their official website on May 5.
Wilko Johnson is recovering from a nine hour operation on Wednesday, April 30, in which doctors successfully removed a pancreatic tumour.
In a statement Johnson's manager, Lisa Climie, said "The head of the medical team treating Wilko said that they were happy with his condition.
"Wilko will stay under very close observation for the next few days.
"Although cautiously optimistic the team have to stress that it is very early days yet.
Kim Deal appeared at Chicago's Reckless Records on April 19 as part of Record Store Day.
During a brief acoustic set, Deal played an acoustic version of Pixies' song, “Gigantic", which Stereogum claim is her first performance of the song since leaving the band.
Kim was joined by her sister Kelley on electric guitar for a version of the Breeders' “Cannonball”.
Bruce Springsteen performed live for the first time a song he first wrote 40 years ago in Florida on Tuesday [April 29].
Springsteen and the E Street Band dusted down "Linda Let Me Be the One", a rarity from the Born To Run sessions, during their show at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Florida.
The track was originally recorded in June, 1975 at the Record Plant in New York during the Born To Run sessions. It subsequently appeared on Tracks, a four-disc box set released by Springsteen in 1998.
The handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's song "Like A Rolling Stone" are to to be sold at auction in New York in June.
BBC News cite a representative of Sotheby's, who describes the manuscript as "the most significant piece of rock material to appear at auction."
Sotheby’s is planning to offer six pages of working manuscripts of “Like A Rolling Stone” and “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” as part of its 'History of Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk' auction on June 24.
