As the b-side of their current single, alt-country heroes Wilco recorded a version of Nick Lowe’s 70s song ‘I Love My Label’. The track was recorded during the sessions for the band’s upcoming full-length (and also featured on a bonus disc with early pressings of the release). Footage of the band performing the track live in the studio is featured below:

Wilco’s eighth studio album ‘The Whole Love’ is released on September 27th.
Nick Lowe’s fortcoming album is released on September 12th.

Lowe is also featured on a recent tribute to the work of Buddy Holly. Read a review here.

With the release of the Muppets-related ‘Green Album’ this week, OK Go have released a video of their performance of the Muppets’ theme song. The video differs from the recorded version in that it features input from the Muppets themselves.

Watch the video below:

Read a review of ‘The Green Album’ here.

Stephin Merrit, the man behind cult synth-based act The Magnetic Fields’ is to release a ten song collection of rarities this Autumn.

The disc – entitled ‘Obscurities’ – features fourteen cuts recorded by Merritt before The Magnetic Fields 1999 breakthrough with the triple-disc ’69 Love Songs’, including a track from those landmark sessions.

The compilation includes five unreleased cuts, including three from an unreleased sci-fi musical co-written with Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snickett). The disc will also include ‘You Are Not My Mother and I Want To Go Home’, a track written for the audiobook version of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’.

The tracklisting for ‘Obscurities’ is:

‘Forever And A Day’ (previously unreleased)
‘Rats In The Garbage Of The Western World’ (The Magnetic Fields)
‘I Don’t Believe You’ (The Magnetic Fields)
‘Plant White Roses’ (Buffalo Rome)
‘Rot in the Sun’ (the 6ths)
‘The Sun And The Sea And The Sky’ (previously unreleased)
‘Yet Another Girl’ (the 6ths)
‘Scream (Till You Make The Scene)’ (previously unreleased)
‘The Song from Venus’ (previously unreleased)
‘Beach-A-Boop-Boop (The Magnetic Fields)
‘When I’m Not Looking, You’re Not There’ (The Magnetic Fields)
‘Take Ecstasy With Me’ (The Magnetic Fields)
‘When You’re Young And In Love’ (previously unreleased)
‘You Are Not My Mother And I Want to Go Home’ (The Gothic Archies)

‘Obscurities’ is released on September 5th.

Manchester indie-poppers James will release their first ever box set this coming October.

‘The Gathering Sound’ will include three CDs and a DVD.

The first two CDs feature an disc’s worth of live rarities and one of studio rarities, while the third will contain 2010’s ‘The Morning After’ and ‘The Night Before’ mini-albums. The DVD makes ‘Come Home Live’, available beyond the VHS format for the very first time.

In addition, a USB stick containing 302kb MP3 and FLAC versions of all of the band’s eleven studio releases, plus all of the promo videos. A heavyweight 180g vinyl containing unreleased ‘Gold Mother’ era demos will also be included.

The entire package will be augmented by an A% booklet containing essays and a 44 page scrapbook containing unseen photographs.

The set will include 12 previously unheard songs among it’s thirty-three studio rarities, but since no complete track listing has surfaced, it is not known whether the live rarities disc will include ‘One Man Clapping’, the band’s self-financed limited edition live album from 1989.

An official trailer for ‘Living In The Material World’, Martin Scorsese’s documentary movie about Beatle George Harrison, has been released.

The documentary will be screened on the HBO channel over two nights on Oct 5th and 6th.

‘Living In The Material World’ follows the legendary director’s films about Bob Dylan (‘No Direction Home’) and The Rolling Stones (‘Shine a Light’), which were released in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

The trailer can be seen below.