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Thom Yorke unveiled new tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in Long Island, US, last night at the PS1 Warm Up summer concert series. Taking to the stage with producer Nigel Godrich, the duo performed new material, which you can watch videos for below, as well as sampling tracks including Azealia Banks' "212" and Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime", according Consequence of Sound. Last week, Atoms for Peace unveiled the first single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album, which is due in 2013.

Paul McCartney joined Damon Albarn on stage at the Africa Express show in London on Saturday night [September 8]. Appearing as a surprise special guest, the former Beatle first appeared playing bass on Rokia Traore's "Dounia", with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones on mandolin, before playing Wings' "Coming Up" and "Goodnight Tonight" with the Blur front man, Tony Allen and Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals among others.

Leonard Cohen played two shows at London's Wembley Arena over this last weekend [September 8 and 9]. On Saturday, the singer songwriter played an epic set of over three hours, taking to the stage just before 8pm (BST) and finishing up around 11.30pm, with a short interval in the middle of the show.

The internet has been hit with speculation after Led Zeppelin posted a cryptic status update on their official Facebook page on Saturday [September 8], the day after a Led Zeppelin Twitter account launched. Fans have been speculating what the picture of the word 'five' - written in same typeface as the Led Zeppelin logo for the Houses Of The Holy album – means, with many guessing that it could be a reference to an up-coming release of their 2007 O2 reunion concert on DVD. A Twitter account also went live on Friday [September 7], with a simple "Hello".

Thom Yorke has spoken about his Atoms For Peace project, following the release of their debut single 'Default' yesterday, which you can listen to below. Yorke features in the group alongside longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Red Hot Chili Pepper's Flea as well as drummer Joey Waronker and percussionist Mauro Refosco. Yorke said in a statement: "You may have heard that I have a new project called Atoms for Peace. The name comes from some shows of The Eraser that happened a couple of years ago with Mauro, Joey, Nigel and Flea."

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has revealed that he is writing an autobiography, which he has described as "a spiritual memoir". The singer, whose band released their new studio album Oceania in June, has said that though his book isn't "a rock 'n' roll autobiography", it does contain "plenty of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll'". Speaking to Billboard, Corgan also confirmed that the band are already working on the follow-up to Oceania and he has said he hopes to have it out by December 2013.

Dr. Dre has been named as the richest hip hop artist in the world. The rapper, producer and founder of the popular Beats by Dre headphones and speaker line has topped Forbes' Cash Kings 2012: Hip Hop list, with pre-tax earnings of $110 million. Dre beat Diddy into second place, earning less than half of Dre's total in the past year and raking in just $45 million. Jay-Z came in third place, earning $38 million and his The Throne partner Kanye West wasn't far behind, with $35 million.

Graham Coxon, Hot Chip and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs are all set to play gigs in an East London branch of the charity shop Oxfam as part of the annual Oxjam event. Theme Park, Lucy Rose, The 2 Bears and Kyla La Grange will all also take part in the sixth annual Oxjam event, kicking off the month long fundraising celebrations.

A Los Angeles boutique owner and producer has received hate mail after releasing an album of 'new' music from notorious imprisoned murderer, Charles Manson. Manuel Vasquez made friends with Manson and turned to Kickstarter in order to raise money to help put out the 40 minute album, Just Fucking Around, which features tracks performed by Manson, who was accused of being behind a string of murders in Los Angeles in 1969, including the slaying of pregnant actress Sharon Tate.

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic joined Scottish indie stalwarts The Vaselines onstage to perform "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam" on Monday (September 3). The performance, which you can watch above, took place at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival and saw the reclusive grunge icon play accordion on the track.