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A brand new documentary about Glastonbury by filmmaker Julien Temple is set to premiere on June 15 on BBC4. Glastonbury After Hours: Glastopia was shot at last year's festival on location in the Shangri-La, Arcadia, the Unfair Ground, Strummerville, Block 9 and the Common areas. Temple directed 2006's acclaimed Glastonbury documentary film, which delved into the history of the festival, which is taking a fallow year this summer, before returning in 2013.

Ry Cooder has announced details of a new album, Election Special, due for release on August 20 on Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records. The follow-up to last year's Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down, Cooder's album is released a few months ahead of the forthcoming US presidential election, which will be held in November 2012. Cooder has written introductions to each of the tracks on the album: Mutt Romney Blues

Wilco has released a new book, The Incredible Shrinking Tour Of Chicago. The book is free and available now exclusively on Apple’s iBookstore for iPad at www.iTunes.com/iBookstore. It documents the band’s five concerts from December 2011 in their native Chicago, with live photography, reproduction poster art and set lists.

The technology company behind Tupac Shakur's hologram have confirmed Elvis Presley is to be resurrected in a similar manner. After engineering the late rapper at this year's Coachella Music Festival, Digital Domain Media has teamed up with Core Media Group, the company that owns the licence rights to Presley, to digitally resurrect the late King of Rock 'n' Roll, reports Vanity Fair. He is expected to appear on film, television and apparently concerts as an option as well.

Muse have unveiled the trailer for their new studio album, which looks set to be titled The 2nd Law. To watch the trailer, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click. The trailer features a compilation of news footage over a musical backdrop, which initially begins as an ornate, classical piece in the style of track's like "Butterflies & Hurricanes" before morphing into a full-on dubstep track. The trailer ends with the words 'The 2nd Law' and 'September 2012' being shown as the music fades out.

Radiohead debuted a brand new track titled "Full Stop" in their recent live show in Cincinnati on Tuesday (June 5). Two rough recordings of the track, one recorded while the band soundcheck and the other recorded during the show itself but facing the floor, are available to be heard. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen. The tracks are not the first new ones the band have debuted in recent months, with new cuts named "Identikit" and "Cut A Hole" also played in the band's past sets on their US tour.

Jarvis Cocker has rebuked David Cameron for comments he made about his infamous 'mooning' incident with Michael Jackson, telling the Prime Minister that he had lied about seeing the Pulp frontman's "bare backside".

All Tomorrow's Parties is set to return to its original venue, Pontins in Camber Sands, after Butlins in Minehead ended its contract with the festival.

A new poll has seen 22% of Americans go for Bruce Springsteen as their first choice if they had to name someone to compose a new National Anthem. Dolly Parton was second favourite to write a replacement track for The Star Spangled Banner as the country music superstar polled 19%, while Stevie Wonder came in third scoring 18% of the vote in the The 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, via Politico. Bob Dylan was next up with 11%, followed by composer John Williams with 10%, Jay-Z with 8% and Madonna with 5%.

Hey there. I hope you all had a good Bank Holiday weekend. Allan’s off today – an extra day holiday, no less – so I’m filling in on newsletter duties.