Araya Diaz/WireImage.comHarvard University, not content with sitting idly while Georgetown and their Jay-Z course were packing classrooms, has entered the 36 Chambers to offer their own hip-hop-oriented class. Instead of just teaching a class on Wu-Tang, however, the Ivy League school has gone one step further by actually recruiting GZA, a.k.a. The Genius, to serve as guest lecturer at the Harvard Black Men's Forum on December 1st. The rapper, who's easily the most scholarly member of the Wu, will discuss his creative process and participate in a Q&A, HipHop DX reports. If there's time left over, he'll hopefully also provide chess tutorials and read selections from the Wu Manual. And like any perspective college student with a 4.0 GPA touring the Boston area for higher education, GZA will also visit MIT, but for an entirely different reason.

Kevin Mazur/WireImage.comNot that many people have heard of the band On a Friday. The group, which consisted of a handful of British boarding school students, formed in 1985 in their native Oxfordshire, played a few venues around town, and recorded a few demo tapes in their five years performing under the On a Friday moniker. Then they signed a record deal and were forced to change their name to Radiohead, and you know the rest. However, remnants from that bygone era in the band's history still exist, and this weekend, two of the earliest songs the band ever committed to tape, "Everybody Knows" and "Girl (In a Purple Dress)," surfaced out of the blue, 25 years after they were recorded.

Anyone who's heard 'OK Computer' or 'The King of Limbs', or even 'The Bends' for that matter, will find nothing familiar about these songs; since they're from the mid-80's, the tracks share more in common with the Cure and the Smiths than 'Kid A'. However, just when you think you've been hoaxed by false advertising, Radiohead's most distinct instrument, Thom Yorke's voice (presented here in its 18-year-old form), enters the frame:

L.A. WomanCountless classic rockers could be accused of remastering, repackaging, and re-releasing their albums as deluxe reissues just to make another buck off their bygone works, but no band has squeezed the wallets of their diehard fans more than the Doors. For the second time, Jim Morrison's old band mates are releasing a 40th anniversary of their last "real" album, 'L.A. Woman'. (The Amp, rightly, doesn't count the Doors' post-Morrison albums.) In 2007, the band put out their first 40th anniversary edition of the 1971 album, even though 'L.A. Woman' was only 36 years old at that point. Now, on the LP's actual 40th birthday, the Doors are back with another reissue of 'L.A. Woman', except this time, it's offering something its many repackaged predecessors lacked: an unreleased song.