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An exhibition featuring photographs of the Stone Roses taken by Kevin Cummins, Paul Slattery and Ian Tilton is set to open in London this summer. Running from June 13 to August 12, the exhibit coincides with the Manchester band's comeback shows in Manchester and at a number of European festivals. The Stone Roses: The Third Coming is being called The Definitive Stone Roses Exhibition and will feature over 70 images of the band as well as memorabilia.

Pixies are giving away a new free EP from their official website. The EP consists of four live tracks which were recorded during the band's set at Coachella in 2004, including their hit singles "Monkey Gone To Heaven" and "Caribou" and is available to be downloaded now from Pixiesmusic.com.

John Lydon has distanced himself from the scheduled re-release of Sex Pistols' "God Save The Queen" next month. On Monday [April 16], it was announced the band's controversial classic would be re-released on May 28, almost 35 years to the day that it first hit shelves and ruffled feathers around the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Five vintage guitars stolen from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been recovered by the police. The gear, which included Petty's 1967 12-string blonde Rickenbacker 360 and his 1965 Gibson SGTV Junior, as well as a Fender Broadcaster belonging to bassist Ron Blair, and guitars belonging to Scott Thurston and Mike Campbell, was stolen from the band's rehearsal space in Los Angeles last week. One man has now been arrested in conjunction with the robbery, reports TMZ, who add that the guitars have yet to be returned to the band.

The Band's Levon Helm is said to be in the final stages of his "battle with cancer".

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have been confirmed to play the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco in August. The Festival - which takes place at the Golden Gate Park - runs from August 10 - 12. The line-up also includes Jack White, Foo Fighters, Beck, Metallica and Stevie Wonder. Visit http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/ for further details.

PJ Harvey, Kate Bush and Adele have landed nominations for best album at next month's Ivor Novello awards, the first time that all the nods in the Best Album category are for women. Two of Adele's tracks, "Rolling In The Deep" and "Someone Like You" are up for the Most Performed Work award, while she will battle it out with Florence And The Machine and Ed Sheeran for Best Song.

Patti Smith has announced a UK tour in support of her new album, Banga. Patti's dates are: September 4th Newcastle O2 Academy 5th Glasgow O2 ABC 7th ­ Manchester Academy 9th ­ Leeds O2 Academy 10th ­ Cambridge Corn Exchange 12th Brighton Dome 13th ­ London Troxy Tickets are available at www.artistticket.com and www.gigsandtours.com, and via the 24 Hour Ticket Hotline: 0844 811 0051.

Kraftwerk’s frontman Ralph Hütter has revealed that the pioneering electronic band will release a new album “soon”. Speaking to The New York Times, Hütter – the band’s sole remaining original member – confirmed that a new album is “under way”. When it arrives, the new album will be Kraftwerk’s first since 2003’s Tour De France Soundtracks. It will also be their first without Florian Schneider, who left the band in 2008.

Ray Davies has been announced as the latest addition to the line-up for this year's Hop Farm Festival. The festival, which will be headlined by Bob Dylan, Suede and Peter Gabriel, takes place in Paddock Wood in Kent from June 29 – July 1. Other new additions to the bill include Richard Ashcroft. It will be Ashcroft's only UK appearance of the year.