Dodgy have announced the release of their first new album since 2001.

The band, whom originally were part of the 90s Britpop scene and festival favourites will release ‘Stand Upright In A Cool Place’ on February 20th 2012, eleven years after their ‘Real Estate’ swansong.

Tracklisting:
1. Tripped & Fell
2. What Became Of You
3. We Try
4. Shadows
5. Did It Have to Be This Way
6. Waiting For The Sun
7. Raggedstone Hill
8. Only A Heartbeat
9. Find A Place
10. Back Of You
11. Happy Ending

There are a few remaining dates on Dodgy’s 2011 tour, but the band will take to the road once again next year to promote the new album. Full 2012 dates have not been announced as yet, but the band have confirmed an appearance at Bush Hall, Shepherd’s Bush, London on February 22nd.

As a way of bringing the band to an official end, New Order have plans to release an EP of previously unheard songs.

Recorded during the sessions for the band’s last studio album – 2005’s ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call’ – the ‘Lost Sirens EP’ rounds up the last unreleased bits and pieces from the Mancunian legends.

Although no official tracklist for the EP has emerged, it is said the EP will include the track ‘Hellbent’, which was recorded for the album but shelved, eventually surfacing on the band’s 2011 career retrospective ‘Total’.

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.