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Editors, Prodigy appear on covers album

Editors, The Prodigy and Feeder are among several acts on a new covers album celebrating independent music, NME reports.

The two-disc set, which will only be available from July 4 to July 7, also contains tracks from The Cribs (performing 'Bastards Of Young' by The Replacements), Maximo Park (Go Betweens' 'Was There Anything I Could Do?') and The Futureheads (Robyn's 'With Every Heartbeat').

Tom Smith from Editors will contribute his take on Prefab Sprout's 'Bonny', Feeder's track is PIL's 'Public Image' and The Prodigy will perform 'Ghost Town', originally by The Specials.

The new yearly Independents Day initiative was devised by UK organisation AIM (Association of Independent Music) to highlight the contributions of indie acts to the music industry's success.

Money raised from the album sales will go towards the independent music community and charities of their choice.

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Liv Tyler doesn't like dad's tight pants

Liv Tyler hates it when her rock star dad wears trousers that are too tight.

The Incredible Hulk actress - who has a three-year-old son with her estranged musician husband Royston Langdon - is always embarrassed when Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler dons his famous skin-tight pants.

She said: "I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes - like when his pants are too tight!"

Liv, 30, also revealed the best relationship advice she has ever been given was from her model-and-singer mother Bebe Buell.

She added to Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine: "My mum gave me some great advice about men. She said, 'Watch out - they can be unreliable. But they can also be wonderful.'

"She had a bad reputation, which was unfair. Every time she happened to be seen with a man, she was supposed to be having an affair.

"I see her described as a 'rock groupie' and I know she was never that. As a child, I watched her suffering so much and I decided then that I didn't want to go through that."

As well as romancing Aerosmith singer Steven, Bebe Buell dated and bedded many famous rock stars in the 70s, including Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Elvis Costello.

She conceived Liv with Steven while she was in a long-term relationship with American rocker Todd Rundgren.

Bebe didn't tell Liv, who was born in 1977, that her real father was Steven until the late 80s.

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