This week, Thurston Moore announced further details of his new solo album, The Best Day, featuring former Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and My Bloody Valentine’s Debbie Googe. To whet your appetite for the new tracks, here’s a piece from Uncut’s December 2006 issue (Take 115) – judging by this, perhaps The Best Day will sound like a cross between John Coltrane, the Ramones and Yes…

With a new Nick Cave documentary, 20,000 Days On Earth, due to open in the UK next month, I thought it a good time to dust down a piece I wrote on Cave's film career for our 2013 Ultimate Music Guide dedicated to Cave.

Eric Clapton has announced a new tour documentary for release later this year. Planes, Trains And Eric features live performances, interviews and "fly on the wall" footage from the Far and Middle Eastern leg of Clapton's 2014 tour. According to a report on Rolling Stone, the title will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and other digital formats on November 4.

Mick Jagger, David Gilmour and Bryan Ferry are among a list of more than 200 famous faces who have signed an open letter urging Scottish voters to keep Scotland as part of the United Kingdom. An independence referendum will be held on September 18 which could see Scotland break away from the rest of the UK. The letter, which was organised by historians Dan Snow and Tom Holland, aims to let people in Scotland know that those who have endorsed the message "value the bond of citizenship" with those north of the border.

Producer and XL head Richard Russell pays tribute to the late Bobby Womack in the new issue of Uncut, out now – also featuring a classic interview with Womack from the archives.

To celebrate the release of our Ultimate Music Guide on Tom Waits, we thought we'd compile a list of 10 great clips from Waits' formidable career.

Second album confirms a major new Americana voice...

After a week away, I've been catching up these past few days, and also trying to remember what I talked about before I went on holiday. Best place to start, maybe, is the Natalie Prass record that Matthew E White has been sitting on for well over a year (he played me some of it at Spacebomb in March 2013). Fantastic song, which I described on Twitter as a kind of nuts Anita Baker/Willie Mitchell/Feist/Charles Stepney thing with a beat that would've been samplefood for Dre 15 yrs ago. Sticking with that for now. Also the red kite feather we found on holiday in Avebury feels serendipitous.

A pair of Willie Nelson's braids will be among the more than 2,000 items going up for auction from the personal collection of Waylon Jennings, reports Rolling Stone. The auction takes place on October 5 at the Musical Instrument Museum in Jennings' hometown of Phoenix.

Morrissey has appeared to criticise his record label, Harvest Records, with the singer hinting at "public deception" in the music industry in an update posted on fansite True To You.