Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has spoken out about the future of the band. In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, which you can listen to below, Ranaldo confirmed that he was currently working on digitising the band's 30 year archive – as well as a potential deluxe edition of their 1987 album Sister and a live film from 1985. "I'm on good terms and talking with everyone," he said. "But there's definitely a lot of stuff shaking out right now."

A series of rare images of Blur are to go on display in London to celebrate the band's 21-year career. Over 70 images from music photographers, designers and artists including Banksy, Julian Opie, Pennie Smith and Kevin Cummins will go on display at the Londonewcastle Project Space, London from the July 27 – August 14. The exhibition will celebrate 21 years since the release of the band's debut album Leisure.

There was exciting news this morning about the release on September 10 of a new Bob Dylan album, which if you haven’t seen the official announcement is called Tempest. There was much talk of the record a few weeks ago, backstage at the Hop Farm Festival, where one or two people rather teasingly inferred they had heard it, or knew someone who had.

Country music singer Kitty Wells has died at the age of 92. The singer, known as "The Queen of Country", passed away at her home in Nashville earlier today (July 16) following complications from a stroke. Born in 1919, Wells began singing as a child and as a teenager performed with her sisters before going on to accompany her husband Johnnie Wright, who passed away last year. In 1949, Wells signed her own record deal with RCA but was dropped a year later.

Bob Dylan has announced that his new studio album will be titled Tempest and that it will be released in September. The album, which is the 35th studio LP of Dylan's career, will come out on September 10 in the UK and September 11 in the US. It contains a total of 10 tracks and has been produced by Dylan himself (although, as with his recent studio albums, the producer is named as 'Jack Frost').

Last night [July 16], the BBC pulled a documentary about last summer’s riots just hours before transmission after a court ruling prevented it from being broadcast. It’s foolish, of course, to speculate who initiated proceedings and for what purpose - although at the risk of sounding paranoid, you suspect there’s plenty of people who’d rather not have such pesky reminders of the riots on our screens in the run up to the Olympics.

Jon Lord of Deep Purple has died at the age of 71. The co-founder and keyboard player with the metal pioneers passed away today (July 16) after suffering a pulmonary embolism. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and was surrounded by his family at the London Clinic.

Olivia Thirlby has promised that the Jeff Buckley biopic will be an "artistic film that does justice" to the late singer. American singer/actor Reeve Carney will play Buckley in the upcoming film, which has been titled Mystery White Boy after a posthumous Buckley live album released in 2000. The film is being helmed by Ridley Scott's son, Jake.

Ryan Adams is set to record an album with his wife Mandy Moore. The couple, who married in March 2009, are set to work together on Moore's new studio album, which is due out in 2013. Speaking about her plans for her seventh studio album, Moore told CBS News: "I'm probably going to work with my husband on this album. I'm not sure necessarily in what capacity, but we've been writing a little bit together. He has a studio, so I definitely want to make my record there."

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke slammed the Spanish banks during their headlining set at the BBK festival in Bilbao this weekend. The band were headlining the Spanish festival when he urged fans to take to the streets over the actions of the banking sector and its effect on the country's economy. The comments were especially controversial since the festival was sponsored by savings bank Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa (BBK).