Guardian Music — New double LP, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, features Ke$ha, Chris Martin, Nick Cave and more – and each individual album will be uniqueThe Flaming Lips are going big for Record Store Day, releasing an album of team-ups that includes appearanc... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Flaming Lips will release a new double album for Record Store Day in April, only on vinyl. The Oklahoma experimental group collaborates with Coldplay's Chris Martin, Yoko Ono, Nick Cave and others on "The Flaming Lips and Heavy Fwends." more info

Stereogum — For The Journey Is Long, a forthcoming benefit tribute compilation dedicated to the late Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, two of Pierce’s better-known contemporaries have gotten together to cover one of the Gun Club’s songs. Nick Cave and De... more info

Guardian Music — Let us know what you make of this album of Grinderman reworkings and remixes, courtesy of the likes of Robert Fripp and Josh HommeNick Cave recently announced that Grinderman – the band he formed with three of his old Bad Seed colleagues – were k... more info

Guardian Music — These 60s psych-rockers play a winning hand with their take on a traditional Texas gambling songBuried among the military bands and trad jazz in my Dad's record collection were one or two gems, notably a number of Lonnie Donegan 78s, perhaps the best... more info

Guardian Music — Leeds Metropolitan UniversityMark Lanegan has had an almost textbook outlaw passage to the black heart of rock'n'roll: heroin and crack addiction, homelessness, rehab and imprisonment and a road accident that almost killed him at the age of 20. Then,... more info

Guardian Music — (Bella Union)It's 20 years since instrumental post-rock trio Dirty Three formed in Melbourne. Between them, violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White have played with some of rock's most revered acts, from Nick Cave to PJ Ha... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The atmospheric baritone. Next to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan possesses one of the few contemporary voices capable of a kind of subliminal storytelling that exists outside the realm of pure vocabulary. It’s a vocal delivery that carries w... more info

Guardian Music — Rock may be uncool, but it's not dead – as long as it accepts its new status as the music of the ageingOn 18 June this year, Paul McCartney will turn 70. "There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that," he says in the latest ... more info

ContactMusic — Blondie star Deborah Harry and goth icon Nick Cave have teamed up to record a new duet for a Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute album The odd couple will join Mark Lanegan and Lydia Lunch among others on The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project which features... more info