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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.

My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields has claimed that the delay in reissuing the band's albums Isn't Anything and Loveless was because their record label Sony hid the original demos.

Metric have spoken about their collaboration with Lou Reed, which appears on their new studio album, Synthetica. The Canadian band will release their fifth full-length offering on June 18. The record contains a total of 11 tracks, and has been produced by the group's guitarist Jimmy Shaw. Reed appears on a track called "The Wanderlust", singing backing vocals. Singer Emily Haines told NME that she first became friendly with The Velvet Underground man when he quoted some of her lyrics from "Gimme Sympathy" back at her.

The titles of the first 100 albums of late legendary DJ John Peel's record collection have been released online today.

Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, Paolo Nutini and Stereophonics will all play a huge show in London's Hyde Park this summer to mark the start of the Olympics.

Blur and Gorillaz mainman Damon Albarn has invited Noel Gallagher to collaborate with him later this year.

The Gaslight Anthem will release their new album, Handwritten, on July 23. The album was produced by Brendan O'Brien. The band recorded the follow-up to 2010's American Slang in Nashville and have confirmed via their Twitter account Twitter.com/Gaslightanthem that they have also recently recorded a number of covers and a selection of B-sides. The Gaslight Anthem's brand new single, "45", received its world premiere last night [April 30] on BBC Radio 1 and was named DJ Zane Lowe's Hottest Record in the World.

Graham Coxon was forced to evacuate a hotel Falmouth earlier today (April 30) after it caught fire. The Blur guitarist, who is staying at the Beach Hotel ahead of his gig in the Cornish town tonight, spoke about the drama in a series of tweets. He wrote: "We have rooms at the Beach Hotel and had to leave when the smell the smell of smoke for [sic] a little much." Coxon then tweeted pictures of the burning hotel, before adding: "We watched it... We had to leave the foyer and then watch it get worse and worse...rather sad."