Capitol Records is reportedly releasing a special digital-only collection of early Brian Wilson projects titled The Big Beat 1963 on Tuesday, December 17.

The compilation features a collection of rare Beach Boys or Brian Wilson-related recordings from 1963. Most of these tracks have appeared on bootlegs over the years, but none have ever had a commercial release.

The release seems to be related to EU legislation stating that if a recording is not officially released within 50 years of its creation, it will automatically fall into the public domain at the beginning of the 51st calendar year. Last year, Columbia Records released The Bob Dylan 50th Anniversary Collection, featuring studio outtakes and live material recorded by Dylan in 1962. The set was explicitly designed to copyright the material under new European laws, a source at Sony Music told Rolling Stone.

According to a story published online the tracklisting is:

The Big Beat — recorded by Bob & Sheri

(Brian Wilson)

First Rock and Roll Dance (Instrumental) — recorded by Brian Wilson

(Brian Wilson)

Gonna Hustle You (a.k.a. New Girl In School) [Demo] — recorded by Brian Wilson

(Brian Wilson, Bob Norberg)

Ride Away — recorded by Bob & Sheri

(Brian Wilson, Bob Norberg)

Funny Boy — recorded by The Honeys

(Brian Wilson)

Marie — recorded by Bob Norberg & Brian Wilson, with The Honeys

(Brian Wilson)

Mother May I — recorded by The Beach Boys

(Brian Wilson)

I Do (Demo) — recorded by The Beach Boys

(Brian Wilson, Roger Christian)

Bobby Left Me (Backing track) — recorded by Brian Wilson

(Brian Wilson)

If It Can’t Be You (a.k.a. I’ll Never Love Again) — recorded by Gary Usher

(Brian Wilson)

You Brought It All On Yourself — recorded by The Honeys

(Brian Wilson)

Make The Night A Little Longer — recorded by The Honeys

(Carole King, Gerry Goffin)

Rabbit’s Foot (Unfinished track w/backing vocals) — recorded by The Honeys

(Brian Wilson)

Summer Moon — recorded by Vicki Kocher and Bob Norberg

(Brian Wilson)

Side Two (Instrumental)— recorded by Brian Wilson

(Brian Wilson)

Ballad Of Ole Betsy (Demo) — recorded by The Beach Boys

(Brian Wilson, Roger Christian)

Thank Him (Demo)— recorded by Brian Wilson

(Brian Wilson)

Once You’ve Got Him — recorded by The Honeys

(Ginger Blake, Dianne Rovell)

For Always And Forever (Demo) — recorded by The Honeys

(Ginger Blake, Dianne Rovell)

Little Dirt Bike (Demo) — recorded by The Honeys

(Ginger Blake, Dianne Rovell)

Darling I’m Not Stepping Out On You (Demo) — recorded by The Honeys

(Ginger Blake, Dianne Rovell)

When I Think About You (Demo) — recorded by The Honeys

(Ginger Blake, Dianne Rovell)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have added four new dates in Germany for 2014.

In addition to an already announced date at London’s Hyde Park, they will also play:

July 20: Münsterplatz, Ulm

July 28: Zollhafen Nordmole, Mainz

Tickets are available here.

A 20-second teaser for Damon Albarn‘s forthcoming solo album has been uploaded to the performer’s official YouTube account.

Shot in black and white, the video shows Albarn, from behind, playing a keyboard topped with two skulls and a stuffed owl. Following shots of musical instruments and recording equipment, the text reads “Damon Albarn, first solo album, coming 2014”. Click below to watch.

Albarn revealed that he was making a solo album in May, telling Rolling Stone that he was working with producer and XL Records label boss Richard Russell. “Richard does the rhythmic side, and I do everything else,” Albarn said. “It’s sort of folk soul.”

Quizzed further on working with Russell and the sound of his album, Albarn said: “We worked together on the Bobby Womack record, and really enjoy working together. He’s done spectacularly well as a music mogul, but I think he wants to focus his energy on producing records. Making a solo record is can be such a disaster, so I thought if we’re going to make a record with my name on it, I should get someone to really produce it – take that responsibility away from myself.”

Albarn also said he plans to tour his solo debut, and he intends to use the shows as an opportunity to play songs from across his catalogue, including those of Gorillaz, Blur and The Good, The Bad And The Queen.

Led Zeppelin have signed a deal with Spotify allowing the service to stream their back catalogue.

The band announced the news on their Twitter account at 15.30 GMT today [December 11].

“Led Zeppelin is now available on demand, only on @Spotify. Play now: http://spoti.fi/LedZep #StreamZeppelin”

Starting today, the band’s first two albums – Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II – are available, with additional albums being released at midnight local time each day for the next four days.

Wednesday, December 11 – Led Zeppelin (1969) and Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Sunday, December 15 – The Song Remains The Same (1976), Coda (1982), BBC Sessions (1997), How The West Was Won (2003), Mothership (2007), and Celebration Day (2012)

Previously, Led Zeppelin were one of a number of groups to withhold their music from streaming services, having only agreed to let Apple sell their albums through iTunes in 2007.

Other big name artists who’ve currently resisted signing up include The Beatles, Oasis and AC/DC. Meanwhile, Thom Yorke has criticised Spotify calling it “‘The last desperate fart of a dying corpse”.

Bob Dylan has joined Twitter.

A Dylan Twitter account already exists as a more formal outlet for news regarding Dylan’s activities.

However, https://twitter.com/BobDylanTweets launched today [December 11] – which he describes as “my only official and personal Twitter account”.

Dylan opened with:

“My first tweet. Hi! Bob”

Followed a few minutes later by:

“Joining Twitter today. First time.”

You can follow the account here.

A spokesperson for Dylan has since confirmed that @BobDylanTweets is “definitely a fake account.”

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rumor-control-bob-dylan-did-not-join-twitter-today-20131211#ixzz2nFsQCexf

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Kim Shattuck has discussed her exit from Pixies for the first time, revealing that she was told the news over the phone by the band’s manager.

Shattuck was relieved of her duties as bass player in the band in November after joining in the summer as replacement for founding member, Kim Deal. Speaking in this week’s NME, which is available digitally and on newsstands now, Shattuck reveals that she was not expecting to leave the band, having agreed verbally to tour with them into 2014.

“I was surprised. Everything had gone well, the reviews were all good and the fans were super-nice about everything. They were like, ‘We love you, New Kim!’,” she says. “We said goodbye at the airport and the following morning the manager called me and said: ‘The band has made the decision to go with another bass player.’ I was shocked.”

Speculating as to why she may have been replaced, Shattuck says: “I get the feeling they’re more introverted people than I am. Nobody really talked about deep issues, at least out loud. There was a show at the Mayan in Los Angeles where I got overly enthusiastic and jumped into the crowd, and I know they weren’t thrilled about that. When I got offstage the manager told me not to do that again. I said, ‘Really, for my own safety?’ And he said, ‘No, because the Pixies don’t do that.'”

However, Shattuck does not bear a grudge toward Frank Black and his band mates: “I would have preferred it if they told me face to face as a group, but they’re nice people. I’m still a fan of the Pixies!”

Earlier this week it was confirmed that Paz Lenchatin will replace Shattuck for Pixies live dates in 2014, including headline slots at Primavera and Field Day.

The Replacements have launched a new website.

The site – which can be found here – went live yesterday [December 10].

It includes a jukebox of the band’s music, videos, a discography and a merchandise store.

Earlier this year, the band reformed for their first gigs in 22 years.

There is no news as to whether they will play any further dates.

Jeff Tweedy and Josh Homme are set to make a guest appearance on American sketch comedy Portlandia when it returns for a fourth season next year.

The show, which is written and performed by Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag singer Carrie Browstein and ex-Saturday Night Live regular Fred Armisen, takes a satirical look at the hipster neighbourhood of Portland and the various characters that inhabit the area.

Previous musical guest appearances on the show have included Jack White, Jenny Conlee and Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, Eddie Vedder, St. Vincent, Joanna Newsom and Johnny Marr. Meanwhile, as well as Tweedy and Homme, Season Four of the show has also confirmed cameos from TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan.

A newly uncovered Johnny Cash record called Out Among The Stars is due to be released next March, more than 30 years after it was originally recorded.

10 years after the singer’s death, Cash’s estate have decided to release the album, which they say has never been heard before, reports The Associated Press.

The album was recorded between 1981 and 1984 with Billy Sherrill, but was never released by Cash’s then label Columbia Records and subsequently disappeared after the singer was dropped from the label. However, during the archiving of Cash’s estate, it was recently revealed that his wife June Carter Cash had kept the tapes. “They never threw anything away,” said their son, John Carter Cash. “They kept everything in their lives. They had an archive that had everything in it from the original audio tapes from `The Johnny Cash Show’ to random things like a camel saddle, a gift from the prince of Saudi Arabia.”

Despite Columbia’s original refusal to release the tapes back in the 80s, John Carter Cash has pressed for the 12 tracks that make up Out Among The Stars to be released, and the album will now be available from March 25 next year. The tracks feature duets between Cash and his wife, and between the singer and Wayne Jennings, while Marty Stuart – a member of Cash’s backing band – has been quoted as saying that he was “in the very prime of his voice for his lifetime” and that Cash sounds “pitch perfect” on the recordings.

Out Among The Stars will be the fourth posthumous release since Cash’s death in 2003, and the first since 2010’s American VI: Ain’t No Grave.

Noddy Holder is set to earn £800,000 this year from Slade’s festive 1973 hit, “Merry Xmas Everybody”.

The track is top of the Christmas song list when it comes to pulling in the royalties, with The Pogues in second place, set to earn £520,000 by the end of the year from “Fairytale Of New York” and Mariah Carey in third, as she is likely to make £455,000 from “All I Want For Christmas Is You” in 2013.

The cash will come from PRS royalties, which stack up through radio, television, jukebox and shop plays as well as compilation album sales, reports Prezzybox.com. See how much the Top 10 festive tracks have earned so far this year below.

1. Slade – ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ £512,000

10. John Lewie – ‘Stop The Calvary’ £13,258

Lou Reed Remembered will air at 9pm on BBC Four this Sunday [December 15] and will include contributions from Reed’s former Velvet Underground bandmates Mo Tucker and Doug Yule plus Thurston Moore and Debbie Harry.

Berlin guitarist Steve Hunter, novelist Paul Auster and photographer Mick Rock will also speak about Reed while Trash actress Holly Woodlawn will also appear.

A BBC statement about the documentary reads: “With the help of friends, fellow musicians, critics and those who have been inspired not only by his music but also by his famously contrary approach to almost everything, the documentary looks at how Reed not only helped to shape a generation but also helped to create a truly alternative, independent rock scene, while also providing New York with its most provocative and potent soundtrack.”

Neil Young has announced four more tour dates for January 2014.

Young will follow his four-night residency at New York’s Carnegie Hall on January 6, 7, 9 and 10 with four Canadian shows to raise money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal Defense Fund.

The run of shows has been branded ‘Honor The Treaties concerts and they will aid the native Canadians in their battle against oil companies and the government to preserve their land. Tickets go on sale December 13.

“The theme of the concerts is honour the treaties,” said Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation spokeswoman Eriel Deranger in a story on CTV Regina News . “All the ticket sales, all the proceeds from the concerts, not a single cent goes to anyone other than (the First Nation).”

“A Legal Defense fund was set up to support the ACFN‘s legal challenges against oil companies and government that are obstructing their traditional lands and rights,” says a press release quoted in Rolling Stone. “As people of the land the ACFN have used and occupied their traditional lands in the Athabasca region for thousands of years, hunting, trapping, fishing and gathering to sustain themselves and continue spiritual cultural rights passed down through generations.”

Yesterday, Young confirmed that he would return to the UK with Crazy Horse to play London’s Hyde Park on July 12. Support comes from The National.

The Honor the Treaties shows are:

January 12: Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario

January 19: Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, Alberta

Pixies have confirmed that bassist Paz Lenchatin, will replace Kim Shattuck for a series of live dates in America and Europe next year.

Last week Shattuck revealed that her time playing with the band had come to an end. She, herself, was a replacement for original Pixies bassist Kim Deal who departed the band prior to the release of the group’s ‘EP1’ earlier this year. Lenchatin has previously played with Billy Corgan’s Zwan as well as A Perfect Circle and The Entrance Band.

Confirming the arrival of Lenchatin via press release, Pixies confirm she will play with the band on a 33 date US tour as well as European festival dates, including Primavera in Spain and Lollapalooza in South America. “We are really looking forward to playing with her on these dates,” said drummer Dave Lovering. “Working with different bass players is very new for the band, but we’re having a great time doing it.”

Lenchatin will also perform with Pixies when the band headline Field Day in London next year. The festival, which will expand to a two day event when it takes place over one weekend next year, confirmed that the US alt-rock band will headline on Sunday, June 8, 2014. For more information, see Field Day’s website.

A handwritten, working manuscript of Bruce Springsteen‘s 1975 hit “Born To Run” has sold for $100,000 over estimate.

The piece of rock and roll history was auctioned in Manhattan earlier this week with an estimate of $70,000 (£42,918) to $100,000 (£61,312), but actually sold for $197,000 (£120,533) by Sotheby’s in New York, reports the New York Times.

The auction house said the document used to be in the collection of Springsteen’s former manager, Mike Appel, but the seller was not revealed. The identity of the buyer is also a mystery.

The manuscript shows Springsteen’s processes as he works out the lyrics for the song, featuring alternative lyrics not heard on the finished record. Part of the text reads: “This town’ll rip the (out your) bones from yourback / it’s a suicide trap (rap) (it’s a trap to catchthe young) your dead unless / you get out (we gotto) while your young so (come on! / with) take myhand cause tramps / like us baby we were born to run”.

There are words in the margins including “wild” and “angels” and one that looks like “velocity”. The auctioneer said: “Although Springsteen is known to have an intensive drafting process, few manuscripts of “Born To Run” are available, with the present example being one of only two identified that include the most famous lines in the song.”

Bruce Springsteen will release a new album High Hopes in January 2014.

The guitar that Bob Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 has become the most expensive guitar ever to go up for auction.

The Fender Stratocaster was sold Friday (December 6) for $965,000 (£590,430), topping the sale price for a guitar once owned by Eric Clapton which sold for $959,500 (£587,065) in 2004, reports Spin. The sale happened at Christie’s in New York City and the guitar was bought by an absentee buyer. The instrument was sold with its original strap and hard shell case.

For almost half a century, the guitar was in the family of the late Vic Quinto, a private plane pilot, who worked for Dylan’s manager. The guitar was left in his plane and though he asked the management company what to do with the item, they failed to respond. Over this issue, a statement from Christie’s read: “Representatives for Bob Dylan do not contest the sale of the guitar, and are aware of Christie’s plan to bring it to auction.”

Neil Young And Crazy Horse will headline a huge outdoor show at London’s Hyde Park on Saturday July 12 next year.

They’ll be joined at Barclaycard British Summer Time by special guests The National, Tom Odell, Caitlin Rose, Phosphorescent and Flyte.

Earlier this year, Neil Young And Crazy Horse cancelled a number of gigs after guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro sustained an injury.

Tickets go on general sale for the Hyde Park show on Friday December 13.

This year’s British Summer Time series of gigs were headlined by artists including the Rolling Stones.

AEG Live was awarded the five-year contract to create this event in Hyde Park towards the end of 2012.