Kim Deal appeared at Chicago's Reckless Records on April 19 as part of Record Store Day.
During a brief acoustic set, Deal played an acoustic version of Pixies' song, “Gigantic", which Stereogum claim is her first performance of the song since leaving the band.
Kim was joined by her sister Kelley on electric guitar for a version of the Breeders' “Cannonball”.
Bruce Springsteen performed live for the first time a song he first wrote 40 years ago in Florida on Tuesday [April 29].
Springsteen and the E Street Band dusted down "Linda Let Me Be the One", a rarity from the Born To Run sessions, during their show at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Florida.
The track was originally recorded in June, 1975 at the Record Plant in New York during the Born To Run sessions. It subsequently appeared on Tracks, a four-disc box set released by Springsteen in 1998.
The handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's song "Like A Rolling Stone" are to to be sold at auction in New York in June.
BBC News cite a representative of Sotheby's, who describes the manuscript as "the most significant piece of rock material to appear at auction."
Sotheby’s is planning to offer six pages of working manuscripts of “Like A Rolling Stone” and “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” as part of its 'History of Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk' auction on June 24.
Eric Clapton has announced the release of a tribute album to mark the first anniversary of the death of JJ Cale.
The album, called Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze, An Appreciation Of JJ Cale, will be released on July 29 and will feature reinterpretations of 16 Cale tracks, performed by Clapton and Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Mark Knopfler and more.
Cale died of a heart attack in San Diego last July, at the age of 74.
The tracklisting for Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze, An Appreciation of JJ Cale is:
Wilko Johnson has cancelled all of his future live shows and public engagements to undergo a medical procedure.
The guitarist, who has terminal cancer, has, according to a spokesperson been forced to pull all future appearances "reluctantly" to go into hospital. He was scheduled to make several festival appearances this summer, including Glastonbury.
Prince has announced details of a regional UK arena tour.
Prince staged a number of impromptu live appearances in the UK throughout February 2014, appearing at venues across London and performing two dates in Manchester.
He has now announced four additional UK dates, called "Hit And Run Pt II", which will take place at arenas around the UK.
Prince and his 3RDEYEGIRL band will play:
Thursday 15th May 2014: Birmingham LG Arena
Friday 16th May 2014: Manchester Phones 4u Arena
Thursday 22nd May 2014: Glasgow The SSE Hydro
Sharon Van Etten is currently streaming new song "Every Time The Sun Comes Up".
Click below to listen to the track, which features on Van Etten's new album, Are We There, set for release on May 26.
She will support the release of the follow-up to 2012's Tramp with a one-off UK show at London's KOKO on June 5, and will play Green Man Festival in August. Scroll down for the Are We There tracklisting.
Michael Eavis has dropped some hints about the mysterious third Glastonbury headliner.
Arcade Fire and Kasabian have been confirmed for the Friday and Sunday at the festival respectively but the Saturday night headliner has not yet been revealed. The announcement is expected to arrive imminently, with Eavis saying the full line-up will be issued at the beginning of May.
Musicians including David Gilmour, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway, Elbow's Guy Garvey, Johnny Marr and Billy Bragg have thrown their weight behind a campaign to overturn the ban on steel-strung guitars in British prisons.
An unreleased song recorded by Arcade Fire has made its way on line. Scroll down to listen now.
The song, reportedly titled "Get Right", is believed to have been recorded by the band during the sessions for their recent Reflektor album.
An excerpt of the song first appeared on a TV commercial advertising Reflektor.
