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My Bloody Valentine have announced a trio of UK dates for early next year. The band will kick off their brief UK tour at Glasgow's Barrowlands on March 9, before playing Manchester Apollo on March 10 and London's Hammersmith Apollo on March 12. The UK dates will follow a series of six gigs in Japan and four dates in Australia, all taking place in February. My Bloody Valentine are also confirmed to headline the 60,000 capacity Tokyo Rocks festival in May.

The Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane is set for DVD release. The film, which premiered in cinemas across the UK on October 18 and was subsequently broadcast on BBC2 to coincide with the band's two date stint at London's O2 Arena last month (November 25 and 29), will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 7, 2013. The film, directed by Brett Morgen, documents the band's career from their early road trips and gigs in the 1960s, via the release of 1972's seminal 'Exile On Main Street' right up to present day.

A host of musicians are set to feature on a pirate themed compilation album, called Son Of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. The album is being put together by Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski and producer Hal Willner and follows their similar 2006 effort, Rogue's Gallery.

Bruce Springsteen was joined onstage by Mike Ness of Social Distortion and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine at his show at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Orange County near Los Angeles (December 4).

Jazz musician Dave Brubeck has died at the age of 91.

Paul McCartney has called upon those involved in the current climate change conference to consider introducing a 'Meat Free Monday' initiative.

Kraftwerk will play an eight-night residency at the Tate Modern in London next February. The iconic German electronic band will play a series of shows at the art gallery's Turbine Hall from February 6–14 in 2013. The gigs, which are called '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8', will take on the same format as the run of dates they played at New York’s Museum Of Modern Art in April of this year, and the shows they have confirmed to take place in their hometown of Dusseldorf next January.

Josh Homme has said that the songs he has recorded with Dave Grohl for the new Queens Of The Stone Age album "sound like running in a dream". The frontman, who recruited Grohl to play drums on the album after Joey Castillo left the band, was speaking to Zane Lowe as part of an interview broadcast on Radio 1 this week and opened up on how the new album sessions are going. Speaking to the DJ, Homme said: "I think this record is a little more lyrically vulnerable, but I also think it's sort of musically deeper and richer, and it's a little bit stranger."

Devendra Banhart is set to release his new album, Mala, in the Spring of 2013. Co-produced by Banhart and his guitarist Noah Georgeson, the album comes ahead of festival dates and a full tour, details of which will be released soon. Mala follows the folk rock artist's 2009 album What Will We Be - which was nominated for a Grammy for Banhart's self-designed artwork – and will be his first release on his new label Nonesuch Records. Mala is Banhart's eighth studio album. He released his debut LP, The Charles C. Leary, in 2002.

Elizabeth Price, former singer with 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, has won The Turner Prize. Price scooped the prestigious art world prize last night (December 3) at a ceremony in London. Click above to listen to Talulah Gosh's 1986 single "Beatnik Boy". Twee-poppers Talulah Gosh formed in Oxford in 1986 and split in 1988. Their name came from an NME headline about Altered Images frontwoman Clare Grogan.