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Brian Wilson has announced he is working on a new solo album. Wilson is currently recording and self-producing the album at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, he revealed in a press release on his official site. He has been joined in the studio by musicians including Jeff Beck and two of his former The Beach Boys bandmates, Al Jardine and David Marks.

Joey Covington, who played drums with Jefferson Airplane, has died aged 67 following a car accident in Palm Springs, California. Covington replaced Spencer Dryden in Jefferson Airplane during the recording of 1969′s Volunteers album. He later played on the band's albums Bark - for which he wrote and sang the track "Pretty As You Feel" - and Long John Silver. He left the group in 1972 to pursue a solo career. He helped form the Jefferson Airplane side project Hot Tuna in 1969, along with Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Paul Kantner.

Suede have added a trio of new shows to their October tour of the UK and Ireland. The band will now play additional shows in Southampton, Southend and Bristol, as well as previously announced dates in Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester and Birmingham. Tickets for the new shows go on sale May 17 at 9am [BST].

Smashing Pumpkins' 1996 box set The Aeroplane Flies High is to be reissued on July 23 with 90 bonus tracks. The original 1996 edition was a five-disc set featuring expanded versions of the five singles from the band's Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness album, which came out the previous year. The bumper reissue adds a total of 90 unreleased demos, alternate versions and live recordings and everything has been fully remastered.

Tim Burgess has compared The Charlatans’ ‘One To Another’ to Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now).

Stephen Stills has formed a new group, The Rides. Playing alongside guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Electric Flag keyboardist Barry Goldberg, The Rides are due to release their debut album, Can't Get Enough, on August 26 through Provogue Records. The 10-track album has been produced by former Talking Head, Jerry Harrison. The line up on Can't Get Enough is augmented by Chris Layton, Shepherd’s drummer, and CSN bassist, Kevin McCormick. Scroll down to watch Stills, Goldberg and Shepherd discuss the album.

Jack White has been revealed as the anonymous donor who saved the Detroit Masonic Temple from foreclosure. White apparently paid off $142,000 (£92,798) in back taxes so his hometown venue - the world's largest Masonic Temple - could stay in business. The Detroit Free Press reports that White's mother formerly worked as an usher at the venue. White – now based in Nashville - also played the venue with The White Stripes.

Beck has unveiled a brand new, stand-alone single called "Defriended". Click below to listen to track, which Spin reports will not feature on either of the artist's forthcoming two albums. They also state that there will be another stand-alone single release ahead of his next studio album and the acoustic LP which is also in the works.

David Lynch has announced details of his second album, The Big Dream. The album is the director's follow-up to his 2011 debut, Crazy Clown Time. It features a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" and also includes a collaboration with Lykke Li called "I'm Waiting Here".

Jack White and T Bone Burnett are producing a documentary about the American recording industry during the 1920s and 1930s. The film, which Burnett says is co-produced by Robert Redford and the BBC, will be called American Epic.