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The Rolling Stones have announced they will play a second gig in London’s Hyde Park. The band will play on July 13, one week after their show on July 6. Jake Bugg, Tom Odell and The 1975 will support the Stones for their second concert. The band's show on July 6 sold out within minutes of tickets going on sale last week. Tickets for the July 13 show - which is part of the Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park series - go on sale on Friday at 9am, with Barclaycard Unwind customers able to buy from Wednesday.

The debut album from Justin Vernon's new band, The Shouting Matches, is streaming online now.

The Rolling Stones' former bassist Bill Wyman has said he would never rejoin the band because he's got "better things to be doing".

'Demons', the first song to be released from The National's forthcoming new album, has been premiered on BBC 6 Music. You can listen to the track below.

Black Sabbath have announced a UK arena tour for December 2013.

Andy Johns has died at the age of 61. The producer and engineer was hospitalised last week, collaborator Stacy Blades told Billboard, partly due to liver problems, though no cause of death has yet been announced. The younger brother of producer Glyn Johns, Andy Johns was born in 1952. He began studio work as tape operator on The Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request in 1967, before going on to engineer legendary albums such as Led Zeppelin's II, III and IV and The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street.

Mark Knopfler has axed two concerts in Russia in protest over a crackdown on human rights groups. He was due to perform in Moscow on June 7 and in St Petersburg the following night (8) but has now decided to cancel the shows following the decision of Russian prosecutors and tax officials to search the offices of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Memorial, Russia's oldest rights group, in what Kremlin observers claimed were raids aimed at stifling criticism of President Vladimir Putin.

The National have announced UK and European tour dates. The band, who release their sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, on May 21, have lined up a run of dates through October and November, including a show at London's Alexandra Palace. The National will play: 31 Oct Finland, Helsinki, Ice Hall 2 Nov Denmark, Copenhagen, Forum 4 Nov Germany, Berlin, Max Schmelling Halle 5 Nov Germany, Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Hallen 6 Nov Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Rockhal 7 Nov The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall 9 Nov UK, Belfast, Odyssey Arena

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are currently streaming their upcoming fourth album 'Mosquito' on YouTube. Scroll down to listen to record, which is set for release on April 15. The follow-up to 2009's 'It's Blitz!', 'Mosquito' sees the band again working with long-time producers David Sitek and Nick Launay, and was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas. Introducing the album for Noisey, frontwoman Karen O says "I am extremely excited about this record, excited in a way that I was back in the day, 'Fever To Tell' kind of style."

HMV finally looks set to be rescued in a £50 million deal that will preserve 2,500 jobs. Hilco, the specialist restructuring firm, is poised to sign a binding agreement to secure the chain's future, which will acquire around 130 HMV-branded stores and nine Fopp outlets, reports The Guardian. It's thought the deal could signed as soon as today (April 5).