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Crazy Horse guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro has revealed that he thinks the current Neil Young & Crazy Horse tour could be their last.

My Bloody Valentine have been added to the T In The Park bill. The festival, which takes place in Balado, Kinross between July 12-14 will be headlined this year by Mumford & Sons, Rihanna and The Killers. Also included in the raft of artists set to appear are Foals, Haim, Phoenix, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Calvin Harris and Beady Eye, along with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Dizzee Rascal and Kraftwerk.

The Stone Roses will no longer be topping the bill at this weekend's Coachella Festival in California as they did last Friday. Blur - who opened for the Manchester legends on the festival's main stage on April 12 – will now close the Coachella Stage this Friday (April 19) on the second weekend of the festival.

Morrissey has reiterated his feelings about the late Margaret Thatcher, saying that he thinks her funeral is an insult to "her victims" while also criticising media coverage of her life and work.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are planning to release their long-awaited live album from their 1974 tour "in August", according to Graham Nash. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Nash said, "It's going to come out August 27th. It's going to fuckin' stun people. We only multi-tracked eight or nine shows from the tour, and we've chosen the best from those gigs. We've had to do a little tuning, but not that much . . . But the spirit of the band! If I take myself out the band and look at it, it was a fuckin' great band."

Jarvis Cocker's first acquisition as Editor-at-Large at book publishers Faber and Faber will be a book on the history of British folk clubs. Singing from the Floor by JP Bean, was recommended to Cocker by Richard Hawley.

Jack White has invited fans into his Nashville studio to record themselves on vinyl.

Daft Punk have announced the tracklisting to their forthcoming new album Random Access Memories via Twitter's Vine app. The duo are set to release their long-awaited new album on May 21. The record, which is the follow-up to 2005's Human After All, includes collaborations with synth pioneer Giorgio Moroder and Nile Rogers. A trailer played at last weekend's Coachella Festival in California, which teased the track "Get Lucky" also confirmed rumours that Pharrell Williams and Julian Casablancas will also feature on the LP.

Laura Marling has unveiled a new song, "Master Hunter". Click here to listen to the track, via Spin. The song is taken from her forthcoming album, Once I Was An Eagle. The follow-up to 2011's A Creature I Don't Know, it will be released May 27. It was recorded at the Three Crows Studio owned by Marling's regular producer Ethan Johns, with Dom Monks on engineering duties.

The full line-up for this year’s Great Escape festival in Brighton was announced today and along with it the line-up for the Uncut Stage at the Pavilion Theatre, where we’ll be hosting three nights of great music from May 16-May 18, with four bands each night. It’s probably our strongest-ever Great Escape bill and includes several of my own current favourites, among them Phosphorescent, Allah-Las, Lord Huron and Mikal Cronin, although there’s no one I’d really want to miss.