The Cage – a long-standing collaboration between guitarist Dario Mollo and former Black Sabbath frontman Tony “The Cat” Martin – have announced the release of their third album.

‘The Third Cage’, the pair’s first release together since 2002, will be released at the end of January 2012 via Frontiers Records.

The confirmed tracklist is as follows:

01. Wicked World
02. Cirque Du Freak
03. Oh My Soul
04. One Of The Few
05. Still In Love With You
06. Can’t Stay Here
07. Wardance
08. Don’t Know What It Is About You
09. Blind Fury
10. Violet Moon
11. Wicked World (videoclip)

Between work with Tony Martin and The Cage, Mollo has also recorded with another former Black Sabbath employee: with Glenn Hughes, Mollo created Voodoo Hill. The band released two albums, a first in 2000 and a follow-up in 2004.

UK synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys have announced the release of their second b-sides compilation.

‘Format’ – a two disc release – will collect each of the b-sides recorded between 1996-2009. The release is a companion duo’s first b-sides compilation, 1995’s ‘Alternative’ which featured all b-sides released between 1985-1994.

‘Format’ will be released on February 6th 2012 and include the following tracks:

CD1
‘The Truck Driver And His Mate’
‘Hit And Miss’
‘In The Night’ (1995)
‘Betrayed’
‘How I Learned To Hate Rock ‘N’ Roll’
‘Discoteca’ (New Version)
‘The Calm Before The Storm’
‘Confidential’ (Demo For Tina)
‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Keep His Clothes On’
‘Delusions Of Grandeur’
‘The View From Your Balcony’
‘Disco Potential’
‘Silver Age’
‘Screaming’
‘The Ghost Of Myself’
‘Casting A Shadow’
‘Lies’
‘Sexy Northerner’

CD2
‘Always’
‘Nightlife’
‘Searching For The Face Of Jesus’
‘Between Two Islands’
‘Friendly Fire’
‘We’re The Pet Shop Boys’
‘Transparent’
‘I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today’
‘The Resurrectionist’
‘Girls Don’t Cry’
‘In Private’ (7-Inch Mix): Pet Shop Boys With Elton John
‘Blue On Blue’
‘No Time For Tears’ (7-Inch Mix)
‘Bright Young Things’
‘Party Song’
‘We’re All Criminals Now’
‘Gin And Jag’
‘After The Event’
‘The Former Enfant Terrible’
‘Up And Down’

Evan Dando has announced the release of an acoustic Lemonheads record in 2012.

‘The Hotel Sessions’ features just Dando and his guitar and was recorded live to cassette in an Australian hotel room prior to the band’s 1994 release ‘Come on Feel the Lemonheads’.

Many of the songs featured on ‘The Hotel Sessions’ were eventually included on ‘Come On Feel’ in their finished versions, but there are still a couple of songs which were left behind: ‘And So The Story Goes’ is previously unheard in any form, while ‘Superhero’ was subsequently recorded by Tom Morgan’s indie pop band Smudge. ‘You Can Take It With You’ – the track which closed the original ‘Come On Feel’ album is presented in two halves.

The confirmed tracklist is as follows:

‘Big Gay Heart’
‘Great Big No’
‘Paid To Smile’
‘It’s About Time’
‘Style’
‘I’ll Do It Anyway’
‘Rest Assured’
‘You Can Take It With You (prt.2)’
‘Down About It’
‘Into Your Arms’
‘Superhero’
‘And So The Story Goes’
‘Being Around’
‘You Can Take It With You (prt.1)’

‘The Hotel Sessions’ is released on January 9th 2012.

It was reported last week that UFO had decided to name their twentieth studio record ‘Last of the Bone Riders’.

The band have had a change of heart and have now decided the upcoming record will be named ‘Seven Deadly’. All other details are unchanged, with song titles yet to surface.

UK progressive metal/tech metal band Aliases are about to undertake their first full tour.

The Manchester-based band are to support Textures and The Ocean as part of a tour sponsored by Terrorizer Magazine.

Catch the band at the following venues and watch a live clip below:

24-11-2011 JOINERS, SOUTHAMPTON
25-11-2011 GARAGE, LONDON
26-11-2011 RESCUE ROOMS, NOTTINGHAM
27-11-2011 ACADEMY 3, MANCHESTER
28-11-2011 CATHOUSE, GLASGOW
29-11-2011 02 ACADEMY 2, NEWCASTLE
01-12-2011 02 ACADEMY 2 , BIRMINGHAM
02-12-2011 THE HAUNT, BRIGHTON

The band’s debut album ‘Safer Than Reality’ was released via Basick Records in the summer of 2011.