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Lloyd Cole 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 the legendary singer songwriter? Does he still favour cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin? How on earth did he end up recording an album with Krautrock supremo, Hans-Joaquim Roedelius? What's his current golf handicap?

Thom Yorke has attacked Spotify again, labelling the music streaming service "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse". The comments follow Yorke's decision, alongside producer Nigel Godrich, to remove the Atoms For Peace album they made together from the service while Yorke's solo album 'The Eraser' was also removed. Godrich went on to explain his position criticising the low royalty rates paid to artists – who he said received "f*ck all" from the service.

Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend explains how the band have rejected their self-consciously preppy image, in the new issue of Uncut (dated November 2013), out now.

In the latest twist in the ongoing saga concerning the publication of Morrissey's autobiography, a post appeared earlier today [October 3] on the quasi-official site Morrissey fan site, True To You, reporting that the book will now be published in two weeks' time.

Jack White has announced details of this year's final releases in the Third Man Vault series - from both The Dead Weather and the Raconteurs. The subscription-based Vault here package includes a 7-inch single from The Dead Weather and a live album from the Raconteurs. The Dead Weather will release "Open Up (That's Enough)" b/w "Rough Detective". You can hear a preview below. The track is taken from the band's new album, which is due in 2015.

Cat Power, Sky Ferreira, the Low Anthem and DIIV's Zachary Cole Smith will play an Elliott Smith tribute at Brooklyn's Glasslands on October 21 - the 10-year anniversary of Smith's death. Proceeds from the show will go to the Elliott Smith Memorial Fund, which benefits two charities: Portland's Outside In and Free Arts for Abused Children.

Linda Perhacs has announced her first ever European dates. The singer songwriter will play seven dates in mainland Europe and one date in London. Perhacs, who is working on a follow-up to her 1970 album, Parallelograms, called The Soul of All Natural Things, will play: 18 November, Berghain, Berlin 20 November, Moderna Museet, Malmö 22 November, Jazzhouse, Copenhagen 24 November, Voxhall, AARHUS 27 November, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 29 November, Le Guess Who? Festival, Utrecht 02 December, Divan du Monde, Paris