Pearl Jamhave announced details of a brand new studio album, Lightning Bolt, to be released in October.
The album will be the US band's tenth in total and their first since 2009's Backspacer. The first track to be taken from the album, "Mind Your Manners", can be heard above, now.
Speaking earlier this year, guitarist Mike McCready said the content of the album, which will again be produced by Brendan O'Brien, was inspired by Pink Floyd and punk rock, adding that the record is "experimental".
A couple of days late this week, thanks to an epic proofreading job on the next Uncut Ultimate Music Guide; this one’s on the subject of Depeche Mode, and will be in UK shops on the last day of July.
John Cale recalls his time working with Nico on her extraordinary 1969 album, The Marble Index, in the new issue of Uncut (dated August 2013 and out now). Here, in this archive feature from our April 2010 issue (Take 155), the former Velvet Underground man, solo artist and producer of such free-spirits as Patti Smith, The Stooges and Happy Mondays, picks nine pieces of music worthy of a new society… and one by Zappa! Interview: Nick Hasted
Nirvana's third and final studio album, In Utero, is to be given a 20th anniversary deluxe reissue in September, reports Rolling Stone.
Details are scarce about the content of the reissue, although a trailer for the anniversary release has emerged online – scroll down to watch.
Brian May has become involved in the row surrounding a gorilla painted to look like Freddie Mercury.
The guitarist was informed of the incident, which saw a sculpture of a gorilla painted to look like Mercury removed from Norwich city centre for breaching copyright laws, via Twitter and informed his followers that he would "look into" what was going on. Meanwhile, ITV News report that May has labelled the move, "outrageous and petty".
Morrissey has postponed his current South American tour, citing food poisoning.
Spin reports that the 14 date jaunt has been pulled because Morrissey and his backing band are suffering from "severe food poisoning". It has been said by a local news source that Morrissey has returned to the UK to receive specialist treatment from his 'personal physicians'.
Over the past year Morrissey has postponed and cancelled a host of tour dates because of his mother's and his own ill health. He recently revealed that he nearly died earlier this year due to medical problems.
