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The line-up for this year's Meltdown festival has been announced. Curated by Yoko Ono, the festival will run from June 14 - 23 at London's Southbank Centre. Ono will open the festival with a performance by the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band on June 14. Siouxsie will make her first public performance in five years on June 15. Iggy And The Stooges will play live on June 20, the same night as Kim Gordon's Body/Head project.

Giorgio Moroder has spoken about working on the new Daft Punk album. Speaking to Vice as part of their Creators Project series, Moroder says that the album is a "step forward" for dance music. "Daft Punk wanted to do something and do it in a way that's not done by just pushing a note or a chord," he said. "You definitely hear that it's nice and full; the drums and the bass have that warm, that full sound. . . This is like a step forward."

The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has spoken about his memories of playing Hyde Park in 1969 as the band get set to return there for a show on July 6. The central London venue was the sight of the now-legendary concert that took place just two days after the death of Brian Jones. Mick Jagger sported a white smock and read a Shelley poem in tribute to Jones before thousands of butterflies were released from the stage.

White Denim have announced they are recording their fifth studio album with Jeff Tweedy at Wilco’s Chicago studio, The Loft. The sessions have so far produced two completed tracks for their as yet untitled new album, due for release later in 2013. It will be the follow-up to 2011’s album D. “When we started, Jeff said to us, ‘I like your records but I love your live show,’” White Denim guitarist/singer James Petralli told Relix magazine. “We are hoping to change that with this record.”

The Rolling Stones have announced a slew of dates in North America as part of their 50 & Counting tour. Scroll down to watch the band announce the dates. Shortly after confirming they would play London's Hyde Park on July 6, the band revealed a nine-date run across America and Canada, starting in Los Angeles, taking in Las Vegas, Toronto and Chicago before winding up in Philadelphia.

The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will be playing London's Hyde Park on July 6, 2013. The Stones will play Hyde Park on July 6 as part of the Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park. Support comes from The Vaccines, The Temper Trap, Gary Clark Jr. and King Charles. Tickets for The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park go on general sale 9am Friday 5 April from www.bst-hydepark.com. Barclaycard Unwind customers will be able to purchase tickets from 3pm Wednesday 3 April from www.barclaycardunwind.com. The full line-up is: THE GREAT OAK STAGE

A new trailer has been released for Greetings From Tim Buckley, which stars Penn Badgley as the late musician Jeff Buckley. The film, which is available on Video On Demand on April 16 will be followed by a limited theatrical release in America on May 3.

David Crosby has been Tweeting about the forthcoming Crosby Stills Nash & Young live album, describing it as "unbelievable". CSNY have long been rumoured to be working on a live album taken from their 1974 tour.

The stripped back, 'naked' version of The Beatles' Let It Be album is available on iTunes for the first time today (April 3), complete with added bonus material including recordings of the band's "studio banter."

Thom Yorke joined Alec Baldwin on the latest episode of his WNYC podcast series Here’s The Thing yesterday (April 1) for an hour-long interview. The Radiohead frontman was in the studio to promote the latest album from his side project Atoms For Peace, AMOK, released earlier this year.