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Fleetwood Mac have announced that they will be reissuing expanded and deluxe versions of their 1977 album Rumours early next year. Posting the news on their website yesterday (December 12), the band revealed that the expanded edition will contain three CDs including the original album with B-Side 'Silver Springs', 12 unreleased live recordings from the band's 1977 world tour including 'The Chain', 'Oh Daddy' and 'Songbird', and another disc filled with 16 unreleased takes from the album recording sessions.

Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Adele, Karen O and Fiona Apple are among the artists shortlisted for Oscars. Arcade Fire's track "Abraham's Daughter" on The Hunger Games soundtrack is one of the 75 tracks nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Paul McCartney could be set to join the surviving members of Nirvana onstage at a charity gig tonight (December 12). According to a report in The Sun, McCartney will join Foo Fighters' singer Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic onstage, replacing Kurt Cobain as singer, at a benefit for the victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York.

Stevie Nicks has told NME that she'd love the reformed Fleetwood Mac to headline Glastonbury in 2013. Addressing rumours that the band could coincide a forthcoming summer 2013 tour with their debut appearance headlining the Pyramid Stage, Nicks says she watched Beyonce's performance at the festival in 2011 from her hotel room in London after her own slot at Hyde Park Calling that year.

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar maestro, has died in hospital in San Diego, aged 92. Shankar, who helped popularise Indian music in the 1960s, was described as "the godfather of world music" by his most famous student, George Harrison.

The Allah-Las make their UK debut in the back room of a north London pub on a freezing December night, the inhospitable weather not something familiar to in their native Los Angeles, where it probably only gets this cold in disaster movies, palm trees turning brittle with frost, the ocean becoming ice, CGI snow drifts on Sunset Strip and Denis Quaid in a parka and Bermuda shorts standing square-jawed and wrinkled-kneed against the elements.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have announced five UK dates for 2013. According to Ticketmaster website, the band will play: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle: June 10 LG Arena, Birmingham: June 11 SECC Arena, Glasgow: June 13 RDS Arena, Dublin: June 15 The O2 Arena, London: June 17 Tickets for all shows go on sale later this week.

Favourite songs from the Roxy man's past, played by jazz vets and cut in crackly mono...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs made their live return in New York over the weekend, performing new material to a crowd of just 70 people. The band performed live at the Union Pool venue as part of a benefit show for the victims of hurricane Sandy on Saturday night (December 8). All money raised from the gig was donated to Waves 4 Water. Support on the night came from Higgins Waterproof Blackmagic, a side project from TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe.

The Rolling Stones have announced that Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and Black Keys will join them onstage at their gig at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on December 15. "We're excited these extraordinary artists, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and the Black Keys, had agreed to help celebrate our 50th anniversary as we share the night live with our fans all over the world," the band said in a statement on the their official app. "Now the fun begins of trying to figure out the best songs to perform together."