LAURYN HILL JAILED FOR TAX EVASION
This week saw the return of Grammy-winning Fugees star Lauryn Hill, although under less than perfect circumstances. Her new track Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix) was released as part of a deal set up with Sony, to help the singer avoid charges of tax evasion. Associated Press reports that the singer was charged with avoiding nearly $1 million in taxes, and was thought to be facing up to a year of jail time. The BBC report that Hill told the judge "she had intended to pay the taxes but could not after withdrawing from public life and ending her music career to raise her children."

Sentenced earlier this week to three months in jail and three under 'home confinement,' the Sony deal came too late to help ameliorate her financial troubles. While her future is uncertain, one thing is sure – Hill has lost none of the anti-authoritarian, deeply political fire that has marked her lyrics and fuelled her sometimes controversial career; and none of the rap skills which first brought her to worldwide fame, before she became known principally as a singer. The new single is an inventive, breathless, angry tirade against injustice, inequality, and political machinations.

NEW MUSIC: ADAM STAFFORD, GOGOL BORDELLO, VAMPIRE WEEKEND, HER PARENTS, TYTHE X LAPALUX, DFRNT, STRANGE EMPIRE
Adam Stafford, head of Wiseblood Records and former frontman of Y'All Is Fantasy Island, unveiled a new track this week on Song, By Toad. It's the first track to be revealed from his follow up to 2011's Build A Harbour Immediately (reviewed here), and will be released in conjunction with US label Kingfisher Blues. The album, Imaginary Walls Collapse, is slated for a July release – there will be a launch for the album at Glasgow's Glad Cafe on 28 June. Stream and download the first track, Please, below.

Balkan folk-punk fusionistas Gogol Bordello also make a welcome return this week – their sixth album Pura Vida Conspiracy drops on 22 July. The first track to be revealed is Malandrino. Like the best Gogol Bordello songs, it starts out with a drunken, emotional, balladic swagger, before diving head-first into raucous coda that sounds like a bar brawl set to accordion and guitar.

Vampire Weekend's new album Modern Vampires of the City is out 13 May in the UK – the band have uploaded another lyric video, this time for the track Ya Hey. 

Her Parents have offered up a free download this week – the band, which consists of ex-members of Dananananaykroyd, Stairs to Korea and Internet Forever, release their album Happy Birthday on 13 May. Download a free copy of Lithuanian Mercedes below.

A new remix from Lapalux surfaced yesterday – he's chipped in a gorgeous, hazy reassembly of emerging lo-fi house producer TYTHE's new track Careless Woman. TYTHE will release his album And Also With You on 19 June - the single, with the Lapalux remix, is out digitally on 19 May – you can grab it on 12" vinyl now. 

Edinburgh's DFRNT has a new EP out – Nobody Stop Me brings the minimal house influences even further to the fore, progressing from last year's excellent album Fading (reviewed here).

Finally, Glasgow's Strange Empire have released a short teaser trailer of some of their new material – the 30-second clip of Running From Something can be streamed below, and offers a tantalising glimpse of the power of singer Joe Gallacher's multi-range vocals. As soon as we know more about their next release, we'll let you know! 

STREAM KILLING JOKE'S SINGLES BOX SET
We've given you details of the forthcoming single box set by seminal post-punk pioneers Killing Joke in previous Bulletins – as well as collecting every single the band released between 1979 and 2012, the deluxe 'Cigar Box' edition of the collection comes with a cornucopia of limited edition weirdness, including the wrappers of cigars smoked by the band, and rare artwork and essays.

You can now stream 33 tracks from the collection below – it's a blistering, essential mix of songs from one of the most revered and influential rock bands of all time. If you missed it back in April last year, here's our in-depth interview with Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman.

You can pre-order the deluxe edition here, or buy the limited edition here – if you just want the singles and rare tracks and not the extras, buy the standard edition here, or download the digital edition here.

FESTIVAL WATCH: T IN THE PARK
T in the Park (12-14 Jul) have added disco veterans Earth, Wind and Fire to their ever-growing lineup, and the bill for the T-Break stage, which showcases new and emerging artists, will also be announced this month. Demos poured in from the across the length and breadth of Scotland from bands competing for their chance to play in front of a festival crowd at the Kinross event's 20th anniversary shindig. A panel comprised of DJs, journalists (including our very own Music Editor), industry lecturers and gig bookers convened last week to pick the 16 who will go through, and their verdict is due imminently. Watch this space...

REFUGEE WEEK SCOTLAND
Refugee Week Scotland runs from 17-23 June – a celebration of the cultural diversity of Scotland's population, and an effort to recognise the essential and innovative work done by refugees living in the country, the programme features concerts, stand-up comedy, literature events and street parties. The opening concert kicks things off in grand style with performances from SAY Award nominees Admiral Fallow, Malcolm Middleton and Karine Polwart, with proceeds from ticket sales donated to refugee charities. Featured comedians include Kevin Bridges, Tom Stade and Dave Fulton, and theatrical highlights include a new production of AJ Taudevin's Some Other Mother, and new work from Terra Incognita. To look at the full programme and for event timings, visit the Refugee Week Scotland site.  

NEW VIDEOS: DAVID BOWIE, NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, GRIMES, NINE INCH NAILS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, KURT VILE, LIFE COACH, THE BEAUTIFUL WORD
David Bowie's star-studded videos, taken from his chart-slaying album The Next Day, seem to be growing in ambition and scope with each release. The video for the album's title track features Gary Oldman dressed as a priest, punching a beggar in the face – and that's just the opening scene. What follows is a cornucopia of blasphemy, gore and debauchery, with Bowie depicted as Jesus. 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds unveiled the video for Mermaids, taken from Push The Sky Away (reviewed here), this week – it's a stripped-back, melancholy affair, with Cave performing the track live – the footage is taken from their album launch at LA's La Fonda Theatre, back in February.  

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a new video up – it's the title track from their new album Mosquito, released last month. The video starts out in an amazingly literal fashion, before morphing into a disturbing psychedelic nightmare. 

A previously unreleased Grimes video was unearthed this week – Venus in Fleurs is taken from her lesser-known debut album Geidi Primes. "We were supposed to release it ages ago, and somehow it didn't happen probably because it didn’t comply with the press cycle at the time," Grimes states in a press release. "Since I’ve stopped caring about complying with press cycles I'm sharing this now."

The next video is a very special treat indeed – Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has released the full-length video for the Broken EP, which ties together the tracks from that release in an extremely graphic short film. Reznor's camp posted the video – which was made in 1993, and traded as an underground VHS tape, despite never being officially released – on their Tumblr this week, only to see it deleted by Vimeo for a 'terms of service violation' last night. Such is the magic of the internet, however – we have found an uploaded copy as yet intact on the Vimeo site, which looks likely to have been dubbed from VHS. Watch it while you still can...

Queens of the Stone Age have this week released the official video for I Appear Missing, taken from the much-anticipated ...Like Clockwork, slated for a 4 June release. The animated clip features three minutes of the new song, which will appear as a full 6-minute version on the new album. Also worth bookmarking is their new site, likeclockwork.tv, which hosts the video – it will be the place where forthcoming promotional events for the album's launch take place.  

Kurt Vile is back with a new video from his album Wakin on a Pretty Daze (reviewed here, we also interviewed Vile back in April). The video for Never Run Away features Vile on a romantic date with a decomissioned school bus, wearing a natty white ensemble.

Life Coach, the band formed by Phil Manley of Trans Am and Jon Theodore of the above-mentioned QOTSA and The Mars Volta, have a new video out – Ohm is taken from their recently released album Aphawaves (reviewed here, plus we recently spoke to the pair about the union). 

Finally, 'experimentalist Casio folk-pop' five-piece The Beautiful Word have a new video out this week  the video for Particles is below, and the single is released on 3 June, with an album to follow shortly after. 

GUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY: 3D PRINTING 'THE LIBERATOR'
News from the world of science - this week, the 3D printing 'Maker' movement took a turn to the dark side with the release of blueprints for the world's first fully functional 3D printed handgun. Designed and distributed by controversial collective Defense Distributed, the blueprints are compatible with any 3D printer capable of using .STL files, and are downloadable from Defense Distributed's DEFCAD site. Geek/tech culture website io9.com reports: "Nearly all the parts of the Liberator can be made with a 3D printer, except for the metal firing pin which is made from a single nail. In order for the gun to comply with U.S. law, it must be embedded with a 175g piece of steel so that it can be picked up by metal detectors."

In an essay on the subject on The Guardian site, Alex Hearn offers his opinion on the development. He argues that the technology still does not necessarily threaten any more significant gun proliferation than the 'zip-guns' used by street gangs in the 1950s did, saying: "Ultimately, trying to pin down whether 3D printing is good or bad is like trying to answer the same question for the internet, telephones or the postal service. Some livelihoods will be transformed, others ruined; the only constant will be the changes it brings." Watch a video of the 3D printed gun, the Liberator, being fired below.