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Paul Weller will release a new EP, titled ‘Dragonfly’, next month. The six-track collection, which is set for release on December 17, will feature songs taken from the recording sessions of his latest studio album Sonik Kicks. You can see the video for the title track by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking. The tracklisting for Dragonfly is as follows: 'Dragonfly' 'Lay Down Your Weary Burden' 'Portal To The Past' 'Devotion' 'We Got A Lot' 'The Piper'

Kraftwerk have announced a residency in Düsseldorf this coming January. After their residency at New York's Museum of Modern Art in April, where the group played one album per date along with additional works from their back catalogue, the band will follow a similar programme in their hometown. The performances, called 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, will take place at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, first from January 11 - 13, then 16-20. Like the MoMA shows, Kraftwerk will play one album per date and will be accompanied by 3-D visuals.

Yoko Ono is set to direct and curate next year's Meltdown Festival at London's Southbank Centre. The 2013 festival will take place from June 14-23. The music and arts event has previously been helmed by David Bowie, Patti Smith and Jarvis Cocker. Of her involvement with Meltdown, musician and visual artist Ono has said: "I am deeply honoured to curate the world-famous Meltdown Festival. In doing so I am aware of the great tradition of experimentalism mixed with classicism that has made the festival such an enduring part of the British arts landscape."

The Rolling Stones have unveiled a brand new track titled "One More Shot" – scroll down to listen to it. The song is the second new recording from the rock legends, who have been back in the studio for the first time in seven years. It follows the release of the track 'Doom And Gloom' and will feature on the band's new greatest hits compilation GRRR!. Like "Doom And Gloom", "One More Shot" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and was recorded in Paris with longtime Stones collaborator Don Was, who worked with the band on their last five LPs.

Black Sabbath have revealed that they are six tracks into recording their new album. Tony Iommi has said that the final album will consist of 15 tracks. The Guardian quotes the guitarist as saying: "We've written the 15 songs and we've played them all, but now at the moment we're recording them. We're about six tracks in at the moment."

Robert Plant was temporarily knocked to the floor when a fan invaded the stage during a recent gig in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Scroll down to watch fan-filmed footage of the incident. The stage invasion happened last Thursday [November 1] when Plant and his group The Sensational Space Shifters performed at Estadio Luna Park and had just finished performing Led Zeppelin's "Going To California". A man ran onto the stage and approached Plant but was tackled by security with the scuffle causing Plant to lose his balance and topple over.

A rare post-Beatles John Lennon letter to Eric Clapton is expected to fetch as much as £19,000 at auction this week. The handwritten letter by the former Beatle is set to go under the hammer in Los Angeles at the Profiles in History auction on December 18, Reuters reports.

My Bloody Valentine have announced a headlining slot at Japan's Tokyo Rocks festival in May 2013, where they will be playing exclusive material from a brand new album. The album, the very-long-awaited follow-up to 1991’s classic Loveless, has been 21 years in the making. It will be released on frontman Kevin Shields’ website before the end of the year, and will be followed by a further EP of brand new material.

The first bands on the bill for TV On The Radio and Deerhunter's 2013 ATP festivals have been unveiled. The first weekend, which will be curated by TV On The Radio (May 10-12, 2013), will see performances from TV On The Radio, Spank Rock, El-P, Saul Williams, Tinariwen, Shabazz Palaces, Thee Oh Sees, CSS, Daniel Higgs (Lungfish), Celebration, Talibam! and North America.

Jimi Hendrix's set from the 1969 Woodstock festival is set to receive a cinematic release. The performance will be shown on November 29 and December 4 at more than 30 cinemas across the UK, and in movie theatres globally. The gig is being released to celebrate the 70th year of Hendrix's birth and will play alongside the film Live At Woodstock, which features interviews with band members Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell, as well as engineer Eddie Kramer and Woodstock promoter Michael Lang. Live At Woodstock is directed by Bob Smeaton [Festival Express].