Jack White hass announced that recordings of The White Stripes’ debut performance will be made available to fans this year.

Three recordings from an open mic night at The Gold Dollar in August 1997 will be issued on a strictly limited edition red vinyl 7″.  Songs included are ‘Jimmy The Exploder’, ‘St James Infirmary Blues’ and ‘Love Potion #9’.

Fans who wish to own these recordings will have to sign up to Jack White’s Third Man Vault, a record collector’s subscription which costs approximately £75 per quarter for UK fans.

Also issued in the next Vault package will be a coloured vinyl 12″ LP containing more White Stripes recordings from a different Gold Dollar show.  Both records will be housed in a limited White Stripes tote bag.

The cut off date for the package subscription is July 31st.

A new interview with hard rock/classic rock vocalist Tony Martin has been posted online.

Although his most recent work is with European guitarist Dario Mollo (released under the Mollo-Martin name), Tony Martin will be best known to many as having been the vocalist with Black Sabbath during the late 80s/early 90s, even though his tenure with the band tends to be the most overlooked.

Between 1987 and 1995, Martin recorded five studio albums with Sabbath, the second of which, 1989’s ‘Headless Cross’ is arguably the best known.  To date, most of Martin’s albums with Black Sabbath have not received the deluxe reissue treatment, with 1987’s ‘Eternal Idol’ being the only one currently on catalogue.

Near the end of 2011, Tony Martin announced tentative plans to reissue his hard to find solo record from 1992.

During a quick break from the Monster Mayhem tour, Slayer’s Kerry King gave a lengthy video interview with Nikki Blakk, the host of Californian metal radio show ‘Metal Zone’. You can watch their complete chat below.

Slayer are still performing with Exodus’s Gary Holt as second guitarist, since Jeff Hanneman is still in his long recovery process from contacting necrotizing fasciitis in 2011, which was believed to be caused by a spider bite.

Also appearing with Slayer on the Monster Mayhem tour are Slipknot, Anthrax and Motorhead.

Sigur Ros, Iceland’s premier atmospheric soundmakers, have added two extra dates to their Australian visit.

The band were already confirmed for three shows at the Harvest Festival, but now fans can catch Sigur Ros at two headline shows of their own.

The dates are:

11th November – Werribee Park, Melbourne*
13th November – Belvoir Amphitheatre, Perth (18+ only)
15th November – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
17th November – Parramatta Park, Sydney*
18th November – Riverstage, Brisbane*

*Harvest Festival shows

It’s been four years since Beth Orton released her last album ‘The Comfort of Strangers’. For the last three years, she’s been largely out of the spotlight altogether.

This year, she returns with a long awaited new album. The title and release date for the album are still unconfirmed, but Orton has confirmed a short run of live dates scheduled for the end of the year, including one at London’s Union Chapel.

The confirmed dates are as follows:

Sheffield City Hall (November 27th)
London Union Chapel (December 5th)
Nottingham Rescue Rooms (December 6th)
Bristol Thekla (December 7th)
Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music (December 9th)
Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (December 10th)
Glasgow Oran Mor (December 13th)