Dan Auerbach, frontman of blues duo The Black Keys, has said in a new interview that he and drummer Patrick Carney 'didn't want to be rock stars'.
Speaking to Interview Magazine, Auerbach said that success doesn't matter to the band. He explained: "We don't have expectations or dreams, because those will always just bite you in the ass. We're very content with where we are and the speed we've been going. The only way we got through was by keeping our expectations very low. We didn't want to be rock stars."
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.
After undergoing emergency open-heart surgery in 2010, Simone Felice appears to have taken solace in first principles. Having stepped away from the Felice Brothers in 2009 and put The Duke & The King on hiatus, his solo debut is simple and earthy, leaning on little more than organ, warm acoustic guitar and his wondrous singing, every note carrying the betraying quaver of a man who feels a little too much.
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.
