NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, April 21

9:44 AM GMT 21/04/2009

Blur have announced another series of intimate warm-up gigs in preparation for their major UK summer shows.

The reunited foursome will now play:

Colchester East Anglian Railway Museum (June 13) (SOLD OUT)
Southend Cliff Pavillion (June 21)
London Goldsmith's College (June 22) (SOLD OUT)
Wolverhampton Civic Hall (24)
Newcastle O2 Academy (25)

Pre-sale tickets will be available via www.blur.co.uk from 9am tomorrow (Wednesday, April 22). The general sale begins on Friday (April 24).

The band then appear at Manchester MEN Arena (June 26), London Hyde Park (July 2 and 3) before topping the bill at Glastonbury, T In The Park and Oxegen Festival.

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Nirvana's legendary appearance at the 1992 Reading Festival is to be released on DVD.

Life Takes No Prisoners will feature 27 songs including three covers (Boston's More Than A Feeling, The Star Spangled Banner and Fang's The Money Will Roll Right In).

The film captures the band's final UK concert. Kurt Cobain, sporting a long blonde wig and white hospital gown, arrived onstage in a wheelchair, mocking persistent speculation surrounding the state of his mental health. This is the first time the performance has been given an official release.

The DVD is set to hit the shelves on May 4.

Check out In Bloom, Come As You Are and Lithium below:

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Bob Dylan has premiered a photo-montage video for Beyond Here Lies Nothin' - the opening track from his new album, Together Through Life.

A black and white tribute to teenage existence in the late 1950s, the film chronicles a summer in the life of a New York gang using images captured by photographer Bruce Davidson.

It's currently being streamed via Amazon.com and you can watch HERE.

MOJO's review of Together Through Life can be found HERE.

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Can't wait for the remastered Beatles catalogue to arrive in September? Then head over to the Fabs' official site to preview all the new artwork and tracklistings.

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And finally...Happy Birthday Iggy Pop! The Stooges' impressively limber fulcrum of power is 62 today. Here he is in seriously wired form on The Tom Snyder Show in 1980.

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 9:44 AM GMT 21/04/2009

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Awesome clip. Iggy's shortlist of favorite musicians is on the money.

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Awesome clip. Iggy's shortlist of favorite musicians is on the money.

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