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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have announced details of their new album 'Push The Sky Away' - watch a trailer for it below. The LP will be the band's fifteenth studio album and will be released on February 19, 2013. It follows 2008's 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' and was recorded by regular Bad Seeds and Grinderman collaborator Nick Luanay at La Fabrique studios, based in a 19th century mansion in the south of France.

Led Zeppelin have confirmed that a recording their 2007 live show at London's 02 Arena will air on BBC2 next month. An hour-long version of the concert captured for the band's Celebration Day DVD will be shown on BBC2 on December 8 at 10:45pm. The live album version of the show recently entered the Official Album Chart at number two, one place behind Rihanna's 'Unapologetic'.

Graham Coxon has stated that there will not be another Blur album in the near future. The guitarist made the revelation in a conversation with a fan on Twitter earlier today (Nov 26). Though far from a definitive statement on the future of the band, Coxon gives short shrift to the idea of releasing another album with Damon Albarn, Alex James and Dave Rowntree. Asked if there is a new Blur album coming out and, if so, when? Coxon replied by simply saying "No". Scroll down the page to see the tweet.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have confirmed that they will play live as part of a Hurricane Sandy fundraiser in New York next week. The band, who recently hinted at being close to finishing their next album, will play a tiny show at Williamsburg bar Union Pool on December 8. They will be joined on the bill by Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio, performing with the group Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band. All money raised at the event will go to Waves for Water's Hurricane Sandy relief initiative.

The Rolling Stones were reportedly fined £200,000 after their gig at the O2 Arena ran over the alloted curfew. The band were due to finish their set by 10:30pm on Sunday (Nov 25) night but played for the sell-out crowd until gone 11pm. The Sun reports that the band were taken to task over this by the local council, who issued them with the penalty. “It means a big fine — but the guys just do their thing. There wasn’t a janitor standing there, jangling his keys, saying. ‘I want to go home’,” said the band's publicist, Bernard Doherty.

Two classic compilations from The Jesus And Mary Chain are set for vinyl reissue in 2013. According to Exclaim, 1972 Records will issue two of the band's compilations on vinyl. The first will be 1988?s Barbed Wire Kisses (B-Sides And More), which contains a collection of limited singles, rarities and B-sides from the band's early career and contains material from their 1985 album Psychocandy and 1987's Darklands'. The second will be 1993?s The Sound Of Speed – which contains material from around 1989's Automatic and 1992's Honey's Dead.

The Stone Roses have been announced as the first headliners of the Isle of Wight Festival, 2013. The reunited Madchester legends will play their only UK festival appearance of the season on the main stage on Friday, June 14 2013.

The Who have paid tribute to their former manager Chris Stamp, who died of cancer on Saturday (24 November), aged 70. At a concert in Detroit on Saturday night, Roger Daltrey paid tribute to Stamp, calling him a man "without whom we wouldn't be the band we were," Billboard reports. He added: "Chris, we can never thank you enough - well, I can't, for what you brought to my life".

The Rolling Stones last night (November 25) played the first of two long-awaited shows at London’s O2 Arena to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band.

Recordings by Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra, AC/DC and more are to be inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame, according to a report on Rolling Stone. Dylan's 1964 song "The Times They Are A-Changing", the Paul McCartney & Wings album, Band On The Run (1973), and AC/DC's 1980 album Back In Black will all join the Grammy Hall Of Fame, alongside recordings by Elton John, Little Richard and James Brown.