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.
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 current issue of Uncut comes with a rather spiffing free 52-page magazine that hosts our essential guide to the best new albums, reissues, box sets, films, DVDs and books of 2013. This year we’ve expanded our new album section to a Top 80, as voted for by the Uncut staff and nigh on 50 of our regular contributors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
