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The Cure's Robert Smith has contributed a new track, "Witchcraft", to the soundtrack to Tim Burton's new film, Frankenweenie. The song is the only fourth track he has released under his own name. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O and Flaming Lips will all feature on the soundtrack to the film. The soundtrack is released on September 25, the same day the film is released into cinemas. It features a total of 14 tracks, with The Flaming Lips, Plain White T's, Kimbra, Neon Trees, Skylar Grey, Grouplove and actress Winona Ryder all contributing tracks.

Three new Beck tracks have surfaced online – scroll down to listen to them. The songs – titled "Cities", "Touch The People" and "Spiral Staircase" – were written for the PlayStation 3 game Sound Shapes and the videos feature footage from the game. Last week, Beck announced that he would be releasing his new album in the form of individual pieces of sheet music. Song Reader will be put out by publishers Faber & Faber in December, and will consist of the notation for 20 unrecorded and unreleased songs.

A mansion in Surrey that was owned by John Lennon has gone on the market for £15 million. Lennon lived at Ken Kenwood mansion in the St George's Hill area of Weybridge between 1964 and 1968 and is believed to have penned a number of tracks for 1967's Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band there, the BBC reports. The Beatle bought the property for just £20,000 on July 15 1964, living there with his first wife Cynthia before he married Yoko Ono in 1969 and moved to New York.

Interesting news this morning, as you might have seen here: Poncho Sampedro has claimed that the forthcoming Neil Young & Crazy Horse album will be called “Psychedelic Pill”.

Blur are set to release a recording of their Olympic closing ceremony concert in Hyde Park. Titled Parklive, the 3-CD set features tracks from the Hyde Park shows and a bonus disc of previously unreleased live material from the band's recent warm-up shows in Margate, Plymouth and Wolverhampton. A 5-CD book-bound edition will also be released, which will feature an extra Blur Live At The 100 Club disc and a DVD of the Hyde Park show. The 60-page book will feature exclusive pictures of both the Hyde Park and 100 Club shows.

Crazy Horse guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro has apparently revealed the title for Neil Young & Crazy Horse's follow-up to Americana. Speaking to Rolling Stone about the first leg of the current Neil Young & Crazy Horse tour, Poncho reportedly claims the new album will be called Psychedelic Pill, after one one the six new songs the band have debuted on their tour.

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has confirmed full details of his soundtrack for the new film The Master. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix and is set in 1950s. It sees Greenwood reuniting with director Paul Thomas Anderson, who he previously worked with on his critically acclaimed soundtrack for There Will Be Blood.

The Libertines' Carl Barat, Rizzle Kicks and The Temper Trap are among the new additions to the Africa Express train tour this September. The Africa Express is a collective of African and Western musicians and DJs co-founded by Damon Albarn. As well as gigs in Middlesbrough, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff and Bristol, the group will do pop-up performances at railway stations, schools, factories, offices, shopping centres and people's houses. The train will then finish up at King's Cross station in London, for a finale concert at London's Granary Square.

Pete Townshend has released a video trailer for his forthcoming autobiography, Who I Am. Speaking to camera, Townshend explains, "What I've never really done is my story from my point of view. I can talk about the first moment that I thought about a song, what it was that was going through my head." According to the website of his publisher Harper Collins, Who Am I will be published in the UK on October 11.