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Bruce Springsteen has recorded a track with Dropkick Murphys to raise funds for victims of the recent bombing in Boston. The Boston band were approached by Springsteen following the recent Boston marathon bombings and have re-recorded a new version of the band's song "Rose Tattoo" for inclusion on an EP released on iTunes today (May 15). The three song release will also include live acoustic versions of the songs "Jimmy Collins's Wake" and "Don't Tear Us Apart" by Dropkick Murphys.

Suede have added a trio of new shows to their October tour of the UK and Ireland. The band will now play additional shows in Southampton, Southend and Bristol, as well as previously announced dates in Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester and Birmingham. Tickets for the new shows go on sale May 17 at 9am [BST].

Jack White's Third Man Records have joined forces with the Sun Records label for a series of releases.

Bill Wyman has said he will "never" play live with the Rolling Stones again. Wyman, who played with the The Rolling Stones between 1962 until 1993, joined the band onstage for their 50th anniversary gigs at London's O2 Arena last November (2012), but in April he said that he would not be interested in rejoining the group on a permanent basis because he has "better things to do".

“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. I wasn’t particularly influenced by my contemporaries. They weren’t very good.”

CSNY have delayed their upcoming live 1974 album until next year, according to Graham Nash. As previously reported in Uncut, Nash had announced that the album would be released on August 27.

Daft Punk are currently streaming their new album 'Random Access Memories' online via iTunes. The album is officially released on May 20.

Kiss plan to open over 100 restaurants in North America. The band have just opened the third branch of Rock & Brews in the greater Los Angeles area and have said that they wish to open 100 more in the next five years.

The National are streaming their forthcoming new album Trouble Will Find Me online. The Brooklyn band don't release their sixth studio LP until May 20, but have now made the record available for stream via iTunes. Trouble Will Find Me is the follow-up to the band's 2010 album, High Violet, and features contributions from St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten and Sufjan Stevens. It was produced by Craig Silvey.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has become the first person ever to record a music video in space, filming his version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station.