Five vintage guitars stolen from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been recovered by the police.
The gear, which included Petty's 1967 12-string blonde Rickenbacker 360 and his 1965 Gibson SGTV Junior, as well as a Fender Broadcaster belonging to bassist Ron Blair, and guitars belonging to Scott Thurston and Mike Campbell, was stolen from the band's rehearsal space in Los Angeles last week.
One man has now been arrested in conjunction with the robbery, reports TMZ, who add that the guitars have yet to be returned to the band.
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After undergoing emergency open-heart surgery in 2010, Simone Felice appears to have taken solace in first principles. Having stepped away from the Felice Brothers in 2009 and put The Duke & The King on hiatus, his solo debut is simple and earthy, leaning on little more than organ, warm acoustic guitar and his wondrous singing, every note carrying the betraying quaver of a man who feels a little too much.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse have been confirmed to play the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco in August.
The Festival - which takes place at the Golden Gate Park - runs from August 10 - 12.
The line-up also includes Jack White, Foo Fighters, Beck, Metallica and Stevie Wonder.
Visit http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/ for further details.
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PJ Harvey, Kate Bush and Adele have landed nominations for best album at next month's Ivor Novello awards, the first time that all the nods in the Best Album category are for women.
Two of Adele's tracks, "Rolling In The Deep" and "Someone Like You" are up for the Most Performed Work award, while she will battle it out with Florence And The Machine and Ed Sheeran for Best Song.
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Patti Smith has announced a UK tour in support of her new album, Banga.
Patti's dates are:
September
4th Newcastle O2 Academy
5th Glasgow O2 ABC
7th Manchester Academy
9th Leeds O2 Academy
10th Cambridge Corn Exchange
12th Brighton Dome
13th London Troxy
Tickets are available at www.artistticket.com and www.gigsandtours.com, and via the 24 Hour Ticket Hotline: 0844 811 0051.
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Kraftwerk’s frontman Ralph Hütter has revealed that the pioneering electronic band will release a new album “soon”.
Speaking to The New York Times, Hütter – the band’s sole remaining original member – confirmed that a new album is “under way”.
When it arrives, the new album will be Kraftwerk’s first since 2003’s Tour De France Soundtracks. It will also be their first without Florian Schneider, who left the band in 2008.
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Ray Davies has been announced as the latest addition to the line-up for this year's Hop Farm Festival.
The festival, which will be headlined by Bob Dylan, Suede and Peter Gabriel, takes place in Paddock Wood in Kent from June 29 – July 1.
Other new additions to the bill include Richard Ashcroft. It will be Ashcroft's only UK appearance of the year.
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Frantic riffs, motorik grooves and "perverse sounds" define Blur guitarists eighth solo album...
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Jack White is streaming his debut solo album Blunderbuss online via iTunes. Visit iTunes.com to hear the record.
The album isn't formally released until next Monday [April 23], but can be heard in full now. The record features a total of 13 tracks and has been produced by White himself. It will be released on the singer's own Third Man Records/XL Records.
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Dave Grohl has been back in the studio with former Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic and Garbage's Butch Vig.
The trio are rumoured to be working on the Foo Fighters frontman's new documentary on Sound City Studios, where Nirvana's seminal album Nevermind was recorded with Vig on production duties.
Announcing the hook up on his Twitter page, Vig wrote:
The last 24 hours have been surreal! Had a great gig at the El Rey last night, and spent today recording with Dave, Krist and special guest!
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