First of all this week, let me quickly plug our most recent Ultimate Music Guide, which is dedicated to Depeche Mode. As with previous specials in the Ultimate Music Guide series on David Bowie, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul Weller, The Clash, Nick Cave, The Kinks, U2, REM and The Smiths – all of which you can order online at www.uncut.co.uk/store or order digitally at www.uncut.co.uk/download – Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide features brand new reviews of all Depeche’s albums, written by a stellar team of Uncut scribes, plus a ton of vintage interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, reprinted for the first time in years and covering the whole of the band’s career from their first stirrings in deepest Basildon in the early 80s. Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide is on sale now.

Jon Brookes, the drummer with the Charlatans, has died aged 44. Brooks - in the centre of the above photograph - had undergone several operations after being diagnosed in 2010 with a brain tumour, and had still been working on new material with the band over the summer. He died in hospital on Tuesday morning with his family at his bedside. The band's singer, Tim Burgess, Tweeted: "Jon Brookes, my friend, our drummer and inspiration to so many, passed away this morning. We are torn apart. Love & thoughts to Jon's family".

US show takes affectionate aim at alt.culture...

The track listing has been revealed for the deluxe edition of Nirvana‘s In Utero reissue.

The David Bowie Is... exhibition is being broadcast live from the Victoria And Albert Museum tonight. The event is taking place at 200 cinemas throughout the UK and begins at 7pm. A limited number of tickets are still available - you can find more information about screenings and how to get tickets here.

REM are apparently keen to put out their rare, fan club-only single releases as a charity boxset. Peter Buck has told BBC News that he would like to put out the band's special releases. REM produced a limited edition two-track single every year from 1988 - 2011. Only 6,000 of each were pressed, and they were given away to members of the band's fan club.

Bruce Springsteen is to re-release his landmark four disc box set, Tracks, on September 30. The box set, which has been unavailable for five years, contains unreleased songs, outtakes, demos and alternative versions taken from throughout his career. Tracks was originally released in 1998, and will be re-issued as a DVD-sized bookset through Sony Music/Legacy Recording. The tracks have been digitally remixed and remastered, and this repackaged set comes with a 56 page colour booklet of photos, lyrics and complete session information.

My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields has spoken about how he wishes he'd made more music in his career.

The Rolling Stones apparently played the loudest gig ever to take place in London's Hyde Park, according to Jim King of concert promoters AEG. King added that despite this, only one complaint about the noise was recorded. Speaking to Music Week, King commented: "The Rolling Stones played the loudest anybody's ever played in Hyde Park before and we had one complaint. The music could have been off and we'd have still had that complaint anyway."

Johnny Marr has said that people who are obsessed with The Smiths reforming "need to go and find a hobby". The guitarist, who released his first solo album The Messenger in February of this year, has repeatedly been asked to comment on reports that the band he formed with Morrissey will ever get back together. At the NME Awards in 2012, he joked that the band would reform when the current Government steps down, but he has since insisted that fans of the group need to accept that there won't be some "big happy ending" for the group.