News: The Beatles (album)

The new song by psych-rock duo MGMT features flutes, horns, & about seven different sections that reference doo-wop, old school rock'n'roll, electro balladry, Ariel Pink-style lo-fi, wall-of-Spector pop, & the Beatles at their most high. All in four minutes & sixteen seconds! (Via MGMT's site.) The track is from MGMT's new album, Congratulations...

A fab George Harrison tune that never made it onto an album.

An enormous effort was made to stay true to the original mixes, so there aren't going to be any easy revelations for Beatles fans. Instead, these albums sound deeper, richer and fleshed-out. The buoyancy of "Something" becomes more comprehensible when you hear clearly Paul McCartney's nimble bass line.

Make It Right & The 2010 ANDYs have launched a 10-day online art auction with all proceeds going to help rebuild the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Artists donating work include Shepard Fairey, creator of the Obama Hope poster, and Sir Peter Blake, sleeve designer of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album cover.

Each Monday a new rare Beatles-related track is posted and discussed. This week's feature is a Paul McCartney out-take from 1987. It's the title track of an entire unreleased album called Return To Pepperland (Twenty Years Later...). Check it out!

VATICANS TOP 10 ROCK N ROLL ALBUMS!

Abbey Road, the London recording studios immortalised by the Beatles album, has become part of the nation's treasury of listed buildings, included at Grade II today by the government on the advice of English Heritage.