With their finger on the pulse, NME are reporting that Chris Isaak is to release an album of covers this coming January. ‘Beyond The Sun’ was actually released at the end of October 2011, and a deluxe two disc version can be purchased from the link below!

Recorded in the Sun studios, where the original cuts were laid down,’Beyond The Sun’ finds the retro singer-songwriter putting his own stamp on recordings original made for the Sun Records label. Among the covers recorded by Isaak include Elvis’s ‘Trying to Get to You’, ‘I Forgot to Remember to Forget’, ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’, ‘How’s the World Treating You’, ‘It’s Now or Never’, ‘She’s Not You’ and ‘My Happiness’ as well as Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ and ‘I Walk the Line’, Jerry Lee Lewis’ ‘Great Balls of Fire’ and Roy Orbison’s ‘So Long I’m Gone’.

The collection also features a brand new track, ‘Live It Out’.

Isaak: “I came to a point where I felt like the time was right to do this record. I’d met all my heroes and worked with most of them, and I didn’t hear anybody else doing it the way I wanted to do it.”

The Prodigy have been announced as the final headline act at next year’s Download Festival.

The alt-dance act will headline the first night of the three day festival with the recently reformed original line up of Black Sabbath and Metallica filling the other headline slots. To celebrate it’s twenty-first anniversary, Metallica’s set is to include a performance of their multi-million selling 1991 self-titled release (aka ‘The Black Album’) in full.

As yet, no other acts have been confirmed.

While working through tapes for an upcoming Doors reissue, producer Bruce Botnick stumbled across a genuine rarity.

A track recorded during the sessions for The Doors’ last proper album, entitled ‘She Smells So Nice’ is to be included on a 40th anniversary edition of the band’s 1971 release.

It is not yet known what else will be included in the anniversary reissue, but this news alone should be enough for Doors completists to get excited.

The 40th anniversary edition of ‘L.A. Woman’ is released on January 23rd 2012.

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.