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Black Sabbath are currently streaming their new album 13 online. Visit the band's iTunes artist page, click on 'View in iTunes' to hear the album in full. 13, which will be officially released on June 10, is the first album Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler have recorded together since 1978's Never Say Die!. The album was produced by Rick Rubin and features Rage Against The Machine's Brad Wilk, who replaces original drummer Bill Ward.

Bob Dylan has been nominated for France's Légion d'Honneur. Dylan had his first nomination reportedly thrown out by the deciding council over his marijuana use and his opposition to the Vietnam War, reports Reuters. The approval by the Légion d'Honneur council means France's minister of culture may soon decorate Dylan with the honour, which is the country's highest distinction. Previous performers awarded the honour include Paul McCartney and Charles Aznavour.

Boards Of Canada's live album playback crashed their official website tonight (June 3). The live album transmission of Tomorrow's Harvest, their first full-length record in eight years, was greeted with phenomenal demand, causing an error message to appear on boardsofcanada.com. However, fans could still hear the album via the live YouTube feed, which was posted on their official Facebook.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse kicked off the European leg of their Alchemy tour last night (June 2). The band played in Waldbühne, Berlin, an outdoor arena with a capacity of 22,000. According to reports, the stage sets that the band had used on the previous legs of the tour were absent.

Atoms For Peace have revealed more footage of themselves rehearsing ahead of their forthcoming tour. This morning (June 3), Nigel Godrich tweeted a YouTube clip of the band performing "Rabbit In Your Headlights" – Yorke's 1998 collaboration with electronic duo UNKLE – scroll down to watch it.

Brian May led thousands on a march through London yesterday (June 1) to protest the UK Government's planned badger cull. The guitarist opposes the culling of badgers, which authorities say is necessary to combat bovine tuberculosis (TB), and submitted a petition with 234,000 signatures to Downing Street demanding the scheme be axed. Speaking at the demonstration, organised for the day before culling is due to start in west Gloucestershire and West Somerset, Brian May told reporters: "If the Government don't listen to us today the pressure will still be there.

Lou Reed has said he is "feeling better and stronger than ever" following a life-saving liver transplant last month. On Saturday (June 1), Reed's wife Laurie Anderson revealed that her husband had been recovering since his operation but suggested that he might not "ever totally recover" from the surgery. However, Reed has since posted a message to fans on Facebook, where he described himself as a "triumph of modern medicine" and announced that he is looking forward to returning to the stage.

Reports out today (May 31) suggest that BBC will only be able to broadcast the first four songs of The Rolling Stones' headline slot at Glastonbury.

Ringo Starr is to reveal a collection of previously unseen Beatles photographs in a new book due out next month. Photograph will be released as an e-book on Apple's iBookstore on June 12 and will coincide with Ringo: Peace & Love, a Grammy Museum exhibit on Starr. A physical version of the book will be released in December and features pictures of Starr alongside his fellow Beatles bandmates as they rose to fame in Liverpool.

Boards Of Canada will hold a 'Live Album Transmission' for their new album 'Tomorrow's Harvest' on Monday (June 3). The group, who recently hosted an unusual album playback for the album involving two speakers in the middle of the desert, will host the mysterious broadcast at 9pm UK time.