Bruce Springsteen may be about to extend his Wrecking Ball tour into next year, according to a report on Rolling Stone.
Springsteen was due to finish the tour at Brazil's Rock In Rio festival on September 24.
No sooner has one Mark Kozelek album turned up than, ridiculously, another one is announced. www.caldoverderecords.com claims another Sun Kil Moon album is due January 14 next year, also featuring Steve Shelley, Jen Wood, Will Oldham and Owen Ashworth. In even less a shock, it promises that Kozelek “sings about his childhood years and his life today.”
Throwing Muses are to return with their first new material in ten years.
The 32 track Purgatory/Paradise album will be available on October 29, 2013 as a deluxe 64-page book and a full studio album on CD, published by the experimental HarperCollins imprint, The Friday Project.
A primary school in Denmark where the members of Led Zeppelin rehearsed for their first ever gig, is to be honoured with a commemorative plaque.
Fullflling some contractual Yardbirds dates, the band - who were then billed as The New Yardbirds - were booked to play a short tour of Scandinavia, beginning at the Gladsaxe Teen-Clubs in Copenhagen on September 7, 1968.
This was the first time Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham had performed together publicly.
Prince has revealed a brand new song, "Groovy Potential".
A one minute, 22 second clips of the song was posted to YouTube yesterday (August 13), with the full track available for purchase at Prince's official website.
First of all this week, let me quickly plug our most recent Ultimate Music Guide, which is dedicated to Depeche Mode. As with previous specials in the Ultimate Music Guide series on David Bowie, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul Weller, The Clash, Nick Cave, The Kinks, U2, REM and The Smiths – all of which you can order online at www.uncut.co.uk/store or order digitally at www.uncut.co.uk/download – Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide features brand new reviews of all Depeche’s albums, written by a stellar team of Uncut scribes, plus a ton of vintage interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, reprinted for the first time in years and covering the whole of the band’s career from their first stirrings in deepest Basildon in the early 80s.
Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide is on sale now.
Jon Brookes, the drummer with the Charlatans, has died aged 44.
Brooks - in the centre of the above photograph - had undergone several operations after being diagnosed in 2010 with a brain tumour, and had still been working on new material with the band over the summer. He died in hospital on Tuesday morning with his family at his bedside.
The band's singer, Tim Burgess, Tweeted: "Jon Brookes, my friend, our drummer and inspiration to so many, passed away this morning. We are torn apart. Love & thoughts to Jon's family".
The David Bowie Is... exhibition is being broadcast live from the Victoria And Albert Museum tonight.
The event is taking place at 200 cinemas throughout the UK and begins at 7pm.
A limited number of tickets are still available - you can find more information about screenings and how to get tickets here.
