Just finishing the Ultimate Music Guide on The Kinks while listening to Gurdjieff’s harmonium improvisations from 1949. There are, though, a bunch of interesting newer things here as well. Have a listen to the new Mark Kozelek song, for a start (he played a really compelling gig in London last Friday, incidentally, which I haven’t had a chance to write about).

Despite the silly title and gorilla sleeve, this 3CD compilation proves a respectable primer...

The Flaming Lips have recorded a track-by-track cover version of King Crimson's classic 1969 debut In the Court of the Crimson King. The new cover album, called Playing Hide And Seek With The Ghosts Of Dawn, follows on from their 2010 cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. The album includes collaborations with New Fumes, Linear Downfall, Spaceface and Stardeath and White Dwarfs. It's currently being streamed here: http://satelliteheartradio.com/ The Flaming Lips release a new studio album, The Terror, in the New Year.

The Gaslight Anthem have announced a UK tour for March 2013. The New Jersey rockers will play nine dates on the stretch kicking off on March 21 at the O2 Academy, Bristol, before heading up to Leeds, Glasgow and Manchester and finishing up at London's Troxy.

A collage used for the insert in The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album has fetched more than £50,000 at auction. The collage featured on the 1967 album, the band's eighth record, and shows Sergeant Pepper along with the four Beatles. Copies of it were inserted in the record for fans to cut out and keep.

Johnny Marr has unveiled the video for his first ever solo single, "The Messenger". As revealed by NME last month, Marr will release his debut solo album, also called The Messenger, on February 25. The album was recorded in Manchester and Berlin, and mastered at London’s Abbey Road by Frank Arkwright. The pair previously worked together on remastering work for The Smiths' box set Complete.

Rare footage has surfaced of Elvis Presley talking at a press conference. The event took place the day before the first of four nights at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1972, and is among the last press conferences Elvis ever did. Asked whether he would like to perform abroad, 'The King' expressed a desire to visit the UK. He said: "I've never been to Britain, I’d like to, very much, I’ve never been out of this country except in the service."

Ridley Scott's production company, Scott Free, are making a documentary about Bruce Springsteen. According to a story in Variety, Springsteen And I will be compiled by director Baillie Walsh from footage submitted by fans.

Hunter Davies, who in 1968 wrote the first authorised biography of The Beatles and now more than 50 years on has compiled and edited The John Lennon Letters, admits in his introduction that he has for the purposes of the book ‘rather expanded the definition of the word letter’, which immediately sounds bit slippery, especially when he also describes some of the material he has unearthed as ‘notes and lists and scraps’. This sounds rather unpromising, as if Davies is preparing the reader for disappointments to come.

Damon Albarn has created an 'audio collage' to be simultaneously broadcast on every BBC radio station in the UK and worldwide to mark 90 years of radio. The simulcast, named Radio Reunited, will reach a potential global audience of 120 million people across every inhabited continent.