Kate Bush is to release a new album on 21st November.

This news comes as a surprise, since the new album – entitled ’50 Words For Snow’ – will be Bush’s second release in 2011. She has previously been renowned for extended breaks between releases.

The album was recorded during the sessions for the disappointing ‘Director’s Cut’ (released on Bush’s own Fish People record label back in May) and contains seven new tracks, with a total running time of 65 minutes.

The full tracklisting is:

Snowflake
Lake Tahoe
Misty
Wildman
Snowed in at Wheeler Street
50 Words for Snow
Among Angels

According to industry reports, sales of PJ Harvey’s album ‘Let England Shake’ are up six-fold since it won the Mercury prize last week.

On Wednesday 7th September, the album had sold over 3,300 copies in the first part of the week, making it the album’s most successful week for sales since its release back in February.

Read a review of the album here.

In support of their covers album – released in August 2011 – Puddle of Mudd are to tour the UK this coming October.

Those wishing to see the band can do so at the following venues:

Friday 14th Oct Electric Ballroom, London
Saturday 15th Oct Kasbah, Coventry
Sunday 16th Oct Central Station & Yales
Tuesday 18th Oct The Garage & G2, Glasgow
Wed 19th Oct The Empire, Middlesborough
Friday 21st Oct Fibbers, York
Saturday 22nd Oct Club Revolution, Peterborough
Sunday 23rd Oct MoHo Live, Manchester
Tuesday 25th Oct Corporation, Sheffield
Wed 26th Oct Coal Exchange, Cardiff
Thursday 27th Oct The Waterfront, Norwich
Friday 28th Oct The Talking Heads, Southampton

Read a review of ‘re(disc)overed’ here.

The goth/metal/hard rock duo My Ruin – featuring ex-Tura Satana vocalist Tarrie B and her husband Mick Murphy – are to make their new album available online, totally free.

‘A Southern Revelation’, the band’s seventh album, will be available for free download on December 7 exclusively via www.myruin.net.

In an official statement, Tarrie says the download is “a thank you and gift to our longtime friends, fans and My Ruin family worldwide, for your continued support and rock love for us”.

Tracklisting:

01. Tennessee Elegy
02. Highly Explosive
03. Walk of Shame
04. Deconsecrated
05. Middle Finger
06. Vultures
07. Seventh Sacrament
08. Reckoning
09. The Soulless Beast
10. Mean Street

According to a post on Twitter, DevilDriver’s lead vocalist Dez Fafara (ex-Coal Chamber) is working on a project with Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton.

The pair have written an albums worth of tunes – said to sound like a cross between doom band Trouble, power metallers Circus of Power and mid-period Soundgarden – though it is said they have no idea as to when the new music will be released.