The new issue of Uncut should be in UK shops today, with an exclusive in-depth look at the new entry in Dylan’s Bootleg Series, plus Nilsson, Canned Heat, Morrissey, Armando Iannucci, Linda Thompson, Julianna Barwick and, I’m particularly pleased to say, Rocket From The Crypt. More here…

The new issue of Uncut, out now, features Bob Dylan, Morrissey, The Flaming Lips and Nilsson.

The Beta Band are released a career-spanning box set on October 7. Titled The Regal Years, the six-disc set will be released through Parlophone, Regal's parent label. The set include their first three EPs, three studio albums (plus bonus tracks), a disc of live BBC sessions and a sixth CD featuring unreleased demos and additional live performances. The full track listing for The Regal Years is: DISC 1: THE THREE EPS Dry The Rain I Know B + A Dogs Got A Bone Inner Meet Me The House Song Monolith She’s The One Push It Out

Bob Dylan’s on the cover of the new Uncut, which goes on sale tomorrow, July 31. The occasion? The release of The Bootleg Series, Volume 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969 – 1971) a typically fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of the Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait and New Morning sessions.

Metallica are set to release the soundtrack for their forthcoming 3D feature film Metallica - Through The Never on September 23. Metallica - Through The Never (Music from the Motion Picture) will comprise two CDs and includes tracks from their shows last year at Rexall Place in Edmonton and Rogers Arena in Vancouver, the gigs where the band recorded all their performance footage for the movie. A vinyl version will be available later in the year. The film will be released in the US on September 27 and in the UK later this autumn.

Jack White has donated £130,000 ($200,000) to the National Recording Preservation Foundation. The NRPF is an independent, non-profit, charitable organisation launched in 2011 by the US Congress. Its aim is to support archives, libraries and other cultural institutions committed to preserving America's recorded sounds.

The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly has revealed in the new issue of Uncut that he and Morrissey used to wrestle.

ARE WE ROLLING? I was sorry to read in last month's Uncut that old-school country star Slim Whitman had died, news that had otherwise passed me by. Slim was a great favourite in our house when I was growing up, my father much enamoured of "Rose Marie", which Slim had taken to No 1 on the pop charts, where it stayed for 11 weeks in 1955.

Tough to make, astonishingly realised: Southenders' melodic third raises their game again...

Manic Street Preachers have revealed the video for new single "Show Me The Wonder" – scroll down to watch. The track, due for release on September 9, is the lead single from the band's 11th studio album, Rewind The Film, which follows a week later.