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The Breeders performed two songs on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday (May 7). Scroll down to watch their performance. Taking a break from their current US tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of 1993's Last Splash, the Kim Deal-fronted band performed their best-known song 'Cannonball', plus a web exclusive of 'Driving On 9'. 'Last Splash' was The Breeders' second album and would be the last the band recorded until 2002's 'Title TK'.

Keith Richards has spoken out about Rolling Stones ticket prices. Richards told Rolling Stone "From my point of view, it's like this: We say we want to put a Stones tour together and people come to us with proposals. And these proposals are all basically the same."

The evidently controversial new video from David Bowie has been banned by YouTube. A spokesperson for Bowie said that the promo for "The Next Day" single had been removed from the streaming site as it apparently went against YouTube's terms of use. They commented: "They took it down as they say it contravened their terms of use".

Lindsey Buckingham has opened up about his current relationship with Stevie Nicks. Speaking about being back on the road with the band and his former partner Nicks, Buckingham told Rolling Stone: "Stevie and I have probably more of a connection now than we have in years. You can feel it. It's tangible on stage."

Former US president Bill Clinton has revealed that he tried and failed to get Led Zeppelin to reform in 2012. According to a CBS, David Saltzman of the Robin Hood Foundation, which organised the Hurricane Sandy benefit concert in New York, said that he and the film executive Harvey Weinstein had flown to Washington DC to enlist Clinton's help in getting Led Zeppelin on the concert bill alongside The Who, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones.

Laura Marling has unveiled the video for her track "Master Hunter". The song features on Marling's forthcoming new album Once I Was An Eagle. The follow-up to 2011's 'A Creature I Don't Know', it was recorded at the Three Crows Studio owned by producer and solo musician Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, Ryan Adams, Vaccines), with Dom Monks on engineering duties.

A rare guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison has arrived in London before it goes up for sale at auction. The custom-made prototype VOX guitar will go on public display at The Stafford London Hotel in London from Thursday (May 9) to Saturday (May 11) before it goes up for sale in New York on May 18 at Julien's Auctions. It was played by Harrison and Lennon during the 1967 Magical Mystery Tour period.

David Bowie has released the title track from his current album The Next Day as a single. The video was directed by Floria Sigismundi - the photographer and filmmaker who directed Bowie's last video, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)". She also directed The Runaways and the video for Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors". The video for "The Next Day", which is set in a pub, stars Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard alongside Bowie.

The National played their song "Sorrow" live for six hours straight on Sunday (May 5) in New York. The band played the High Violet track over and over in a collaboration with artist Ragnar Kjartansson called A Lot Of Sorrow. Click below to see fan-shot footage of one of the performances of the song. The National ended up playing the track 105 times, reports Pitchfork, who add that drummer Bryan Devendorf sat out one take of the song.

Blur may record a new album in Hong Kong this week, according to Damon Albarn. The band were playing a date at Hong Kong's AsiaWorld-Expo last night, which was originally due to be followed by some postponed dates in Japan. Faced with a week to kill in Hong Kong, Damon Albarn teased that they may use the time to lay down some new material. Speaking to the crowd, Albarn said: "So we have a week in Hong Kong, and we thought it would be a good time to try and record another record." Scroll down to watch a clip.