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Dry The River, A Winged Victory For The Sullen and Perfume Genius are among the bands confirmed to play sets at The Great Escape this year. The Brighton festival, which takes place between May 10 and 12 at various venues in the city, has announced its first set of artists, with many more to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Also among the first acts announced for the festival are Zulu Winter, Django Django, Grimes, Spector and Howler.

The mystery singer who duets with Jack White on his new single 'Love Interruption' has been revealed as Ruby Amanfu.

Birmingham City Council could be set to create 'Black Sabbath day', after a report from one of their councillors urged them to do more to celebrate the city's celebrities.

Newt Gingrich, who is among the frontrunners to become the Republican candidate for the US Presidency, is facing a lawsuit over his use of 'Eye Of The Tiger'.

Jack White has unveiled his new solo single 'Love Interruption' online - scroll down and click below to hear it.

The Shins have added a second London show to their European tour, meaning they will now play London's HMV Forum on March 22 and 23.

Phew and all that. I’ve just been listening again to the 37 minute stream of new music by Neil Young and Crazy Horse that was posted at the weekend on neilyoung.com. I’m sure there were more important things I could have been doing throughout the day, like filling in health and safety reports and similarly essential tasks. But after reading John’s Wild Mercury Blog on the Neil and Crazy Horse jams, which are titled, tantalisingly, ‘Horse Back’, I haven’t needed much encouragement to utterly neglect such housekeeping duties to further take in the roiling brilliance of Neil and Crazy Horse.

Spiritualized have announced that the release of their forthcoming new album 'Sweet Heart Sweet Light' has been delayed. The band originally said that the new LP, which will be their seventh studio effort and the follow-up to 2008's 'Songs In A&E', would be released on March 19 this year, but in an interview with Spin, singer Jason Pierce revealed that the album will be out several weeks later than planned.

Two tracks from Radiohead's back catalogue are to be reworked into classical compositions.

Happy Mondays have announced details of a UK tour this May.