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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has launched his own aircraft repair business in South Wales. Dickinson, who has worked as a commercial pilot for over a decade, has launched a firm called Cardiff Aviation Ltd, which will be based at the Twin Peaks Hangar at St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, reports BBC News. The firm's launch could create up to 1,000 new jobs, with Dickinson vowing to help develop the local area.

Robert Plant has announced details of three live dates for this summer. Plant will debut his new band, Sensational Shape Shifters, at: ** Gloucester, Guildhall - May 8 ** HMV Forum, London - July 12 ** WOMAD, Wiltshire - July 29 Apart from Plant, the line-up for the Sensational Space Shifters is: Juldeh Camara (JuJu) ritti (one-stringed African Violin), kologo (African Banjo), talking drum, vocals. Justin Adams (JuJu, Jah Wobble) guitar, bendir, vocals John Baggott (Massive Attack, Portishead) keyboards Liam "Skin" Tyson (Cast)

The Allman Brothers Band have confirmed a number of American shows to take place over the coming summer. The band have announced six co-headlining dates with Santana (see all dates below) as well as one-off festival dates, their own Peach Festival in Scranton, Pennsylvania and dates with fellow Southern rock icons, Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Allman Brothers Band play the All Good Music Festival on Saturday, July 21 in Thornville, Ohio. The line-up also includes Phil Lesh & Friends, the Flaming Lips and Bob Weir & Bruce Hornsby.

Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters is set to direct and produce a new documentary about the iconic California recording studio, Sound City Studios.

Arctic Monkeys have spoken about their plans for the follow-up to Suck It And See and have hinted that their next album may be filled with faster songs. Speaking to Spinner, bassist Nick O'Malley stressed that it was early days in the writing process, but that the band had a rough idea of what they wanted to do.

Bobby Womack has unveiled the title track from his new Damon Albarn-co-produced album 'The Bravest Man In The Universe', which you can hear below.

The line-up for Antony Hegarty's Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre has been revealed. The Antony And The Johnsons singer is curating the annual festival, following in the footsteps of Jarvis Cocker, David Bowie and, most recently, The Kinks' Ray Davies, by curating the 12-day festival which runs August 1-12.

Scroll down to watch the video for 'Oh Susannah', the first single to be taken from Neil Young and Crazy Horse's new album, 'Americana'.

Ringo Starr is to write the soundtrack for a new Hollywood musical, according to Deadline.com. Starr will collaborate with former Eurythmics'Dave Stewart on Hole In The Fence, a coming of age story about a group of kids who form a band in a mining town. Starr and Stewart came up with the idea and will act as both executive producers and songwriters for the film.

REM's Mike Mills, Hop Chip's Alexis Taylor and Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake are among the artists confirmed to appear at Big Star Third - A concert performance of Big Star's legendary third album, Sister Lovers. The show will take place at London's Barbican Centre on Monday, May 28.