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Searching for Sugar Man, the documentary about forgotten singer turned construction worker Sixto Rodriguez, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary last night.

Elton John is to release his new album 'The Diving Board' in September this year (2013). The 13-track record comprises of songs written in two sessions with long-time collaborative lyricist Bernie Taupin and is considered by John to be the "the most piano-oriented album of my career," reports Billboard.

Bill Wyman has said he was "disappointed" by his role in The Rolling Stones 50th anniversary shows. The group's former bassist joined the band at their London gigs for two tracks, 'Honky Tonk Women' and 'It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)', but he admits that he thought he would feature more heavily in their set.

An unedited Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds concert is now available to watch online for 24 hours. The show, which took place at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles last night, will be taken down tomorrow (February 23) at 2 pm. It was recorded for the Rockfeedback YouTube channel and finds Cave and his band perform their new album Push The Sky Away in full as well as classic tracks like “Jack the Ripper".

Magic Slim, the Chicago blues guitarist, has died aged 75. A heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema and heart problems, Slim was forced by illness to cut short a tour with his band, the Teardrops, in late January, reports Reuters. Born Morris Holt to Mississippi sharecroppers in August 1937, Slim started out playing the piano. But after losing a little finger in a cotton gin accident at 14, he switched to guitar. On his first trip to Chicago to play for friend and mentor Magic Sam, Sam nicknamed his friend Slim on account of his physique.

Atoms For Peace have been announced as the headliner for two festivals this July. Thom Yorke’s side project with Flea, Nigel Godrich, Mauro Refosco and Joey Waronker will play The Melt! Festival in Ferropolis, Germany and the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. Melt!, now in its 16th year, will also include Alt-J, Django Django, Dan Deacon and The Knife. It takes place between July 19 and 21. Tickets are €119 (£102.85) plus fees including a €5 garbage disposal surcharge.

Elvis Costello is reportedly to release a new album for Record Store Day 2013. The album, as yet untitled, will be a collaboration between Costello and The Roots. According to an interview on NYU Local with Roots’ drummer Questlove, the collaboration grew out of Costello’s appearances on American chat show Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where The Roots are the house band.

Guitarist Gerry Leonard has revealed that David Bowie could tour off the back of his forthcoming new album. "I would say that it's 50-50," he told Rolling Stone. "A couple of times, when we played back one of the more kick-ass tunes from the new record, he'd be like, 'This would be great live!' Of course, everyone was like, 'What? Did he just say that?' But other times he'd just roll his eyes if someone brought up playing live."

The official website for Iggy And The Stooges has announced plans to release a DVD of its 2011 tribute concert for band member Ron Asheton in April. Asheton died in 2009 of a heart attack. He was the Stooges' original guitarist, but moved to bass for Raw Power, a position he held through the band’s reunion.

Good Ol’ Freda, a documentary about former Beatles secretary Freda Kelly, has scaled the Everest of music licensing feats: it has licensed three Beatles songs.