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Public Image Ltd., Buzzcocks and Bow Wow Wow are amongst the bands set to play the 15th annual Rebellion punk music festival in Blackpool next month. Taking place at the city's Winter Gardens venue from August 2-5, the event will also see sets from Rancid, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, The Only Ones, Agnostic Front, Goldblade, the Fits and Slaughter and the Dogs, with over 150 bands playing the event.

Metallica have revealed that they plan to enter the studio this autumn in order to record their new album. The band's drummer Lars Ulrich said they will start working on the follow-up to Death Magnetic, which was released in 2008, in September.

Graham Nash has contradicted claims by his CSN band mate, Stephen Stills, that the trio would record again. In an interview last month with www.musicradar.com, Stills explained that the sessions the band had been working on with producer Rick Rubin had ground to a halt, and then claimed: "We won't make another album."

Last night [July 25], Wilco appeared on the American chat show, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The band, who are currently on tour supported by Lee Ranaldo, performed "Art of Almost" from their current album, The Whole Love, as well as "Laminated Cat", by Wilco spin-off, Loose Fur. Art Of Almost: Laminated Cat:

Arctic Monkeys could be set to play at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony tonight. Last month, a leaked document reportedly showed that Arctic Monkeys were set to feature in tomorrow's spectacle. Other names on the list were Muse, Happy Mondays, M.I.A and Adele.

The first professionally-shot live footage of The Stone Roses in 16 years has appeared online - scroll down to watch it. The five-minute video shows the band performing "I Wanna Be Adored" at Benicassim on July 14. The song was the opening number of the band's 16-song set at the Spanish festival. Frontman Ian Brown kicks off with a few words of Spanish before grabbing a glowstick as the band begins to play. However, professionally-shot footage of other songs from the performance have yet to appear online.

Martha Wainwright is set to release her brand new album, Come Home To Mama, on October 15. The album was recorded at Sean Lennon's home studio in New York City and was produced was Yuka C Honda of Cibo Matto and features guest musicians Nels Cline of Wilco on guitar, Thomas Bartlett on keys, Brad Albetta – Wainwright's husband - on bass and Jim White on drums.

The Flaming Lips answer your questions in the new issue of Uncut, out tomorrow. Wayne Coyne takes your queries, as well as those from famous fans, on subjects including David Bowie, Oklahoma City and his favourite bugs. Asked how he came to meet William Burroughs, Coyne explained that the band spent time hanging out with the Beat icon in Lawrence, Kansas, not far from Oklahoma. “We ended up spending this extraordinary day with William and his friends, shooting pistols. For me it’s a big deal just to shoot guns at all, but to shoot guns with Burroughs?”

Bruce Springsteen has disclosed he's been seeing a therapist since 1982. Speaking to David Remnick for an interview in The New Yorker magazine, Springsteen admitted, "You cannot underestimate the fine power of self-loathing in all of this." Springsteen reportedly began attending counsellling sessions while he was working on his Nebraska album.

A super deluxe boxset of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols album is set to be released in order to celebrate it's 35th anniversary. The boxset will be available from September 24 through Universal Music UK and will feature music, footage, interviews, pictures and other artefacts.