Alabama Shakes have topped the first ever Record Store Chart with their debut album Boys And Girls.
The chart, which launched on Friday, is calculated on physical sales from independent record shops and is being overseen by the Official Charts Company.
The Georgia band's debut came out on top this week, narrowly ahead of Adele's 21, which is Number Two and Trembling Bells' The Marble Downs, which is Number Three.
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She & Him's Him returns to his dark, witty furrow...
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Love'll play some dirty tricks on ya. Jack White goes noirishly solo...
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Spiritualized’s seventh album is a lavish and sentimental paean to rock’n’roll...
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Blur are set to celebrate the 21st anniversary will a comprehensive reissue campaign.
All seven of the band's studio albums are to be re-released on July 30 in expanded Special Edition formats, each featuring a bonus disc of previously unreleased material, booklets, and more.
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Dan Auerbach, frontman of blues duo The Black Keys, has said in a new interview that he and drummer Patrick Carney 'didn't want to be rock stars'.
Speaking to Interview Magazine, Auerbach said that success doesn't matter to the band. He explained: "We don't have expectations or dreams, because those will always just bite you in the ass. We're very content with where we are and the speed we've been going. The only way we got through was by keeping our expectations very low. We didn't want to be rock stars."
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An exhibition featuring photographs of the Stone Roses taken by Kevin Cummins, Paul Slattery and Ian Tilton is set to open in London this summer.
Running from June 13 to August 12, the exhibit coincides with the Manchester band's comeback shows in Manchester and at a number of European festivals. The Stone Roses: The Third Coming is being called The Definitive Stone Roses Exhibition and will feature over 70 images of the band as well as memorabilia.
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Pixies are giving away a new free EP from their official website.
The EP consists of four live tracks which were recorded during the band's set at Coachella in 2004, including their hit singles "Monkey Gone To Heaven" and "Caribou" and is available to be downloaded now from Pixiesmusic.com.
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John Lydon has distanced himself from the scheduled re-release of Sex Pistols' "God Save The Queen" next month.
On Monday [April 16], it was announced the band's controversial classic would be re-released on May 28, almost 35 years to the day that it first hit shelves and ruffled feathers around the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
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