The Rolling Stones sold £24 million worth of tickets for their recent 50 And Counting shows.
The band's sell-out shows in London on November 25 and 29 (2012) shifted as many as 31,755 tickets. Their US dates at Brooklyn's new Barclays Center on December 8 as well as a two-show stint on December 13 and 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, pushed the total number of tickets sold to 364,864 over all five dates, Billboard reports.
Suede have revealed the tracklisting to their new album Bloodsports.
Last week, the band unveiled 'Barriers', the first song to be lifted from the album, which is due out in March 18. You can listen to the track on Suede's official website now. The first single from Bloodsports, titled 'It Starts And Ends With You', is due for release in February.
Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn have announced that they will be joining forces on a new photographic book.
Titled '77-'11, it will feature over 200 pages of portraits of Waits taken by photographer-turned-film director Corbijn.
It will also include over 50 pages of photographs and musings by Waits himself and will feature an introduction from director Jim Jarmusch.
The book will document the artistic relationship between the pair, which started in 1977 when Corbijn first photographed Waits in Holland.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are set to launch their new album, Push The Sky Away, with a special live show at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on February 10.
The band will be playing the album in full with strings and a choir. A short film by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard about the making of the album, which is out February 18, will also be screened at the event.
Similar events will be held in Paris at Trianon (February 11), Berlin Admiralspalast (February 13) and Los Angeles Fonda Theatre (February 21).
Tickets go on sale at Nickcave.com at 4pm (GMT) on January 17.
My Bloody Valentine are set to play a warm-up show for their 2013 tour at the 1,500 capacity Electric Brixton in London on January 27.
The show comes ahead of their Asian tour dates and before the band start their UK tour in March. Tickets for the show are on sale now.
My Bloody Valentine have also just have added a Birmingham date to their UK tour.
The next Uncut Ultimate Music Guide goes on sale on Thursday (January 17), hot on the heels of our special on The Kinks, and is dedicated this time to The Beatles. There’s the usual mix of brand new reviews of all The Beatles albums by our current team of writers alongside some truly remarkable interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, for which the description ‘mind-blowing’ seems barely adequate.
