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The Rolling Stones have unveiled a brand new track titled "One More Shot" – scroll down to listen to it. The song is the second new recording from the rock legends, who have been back in the studio for the first time in seven years. It follows the release of the track 'Doom And Gloom' and will feature on the band's new greatest hits compilation GRRR!. Like "Doom And Gloom", "One More Shot" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and was recorded in Paris with longtime Stones collaborator Don Was, who worked with the band on their last five LPs.

Black Sabbath have revealed that they are six tracks into recording their new album. Tony Iommi has said that the final album will consist of 15 tracks. The Guardian quotes the guitarist as saying: "We've written the 15 songs and we've played them all, but now at the moment we're recording them. We're about six tracks in at the moment."

Robert Plant was temporarily knocked to the floor when a fan invaded the stage during a recent gig in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Scroll down to watch fan-filmed footage of the incident. The stage invasion happened last Thursday [November 1] when Plant and his group The Sensational Space Shifters performed at Estadio Luna Park and had just finished performing Led Zeppelin's "Going To California". A man ran onto the stage and approached Plant but was tackled by security with the scuffle causing Plant to lose his balance and topple over.

A rare post-Beatles John Lennon letter to Eric Clapton is expected to fetch as much as £19,000 at auction this week. The handwritten letter by the former Beatle is set to go under the hammer in Los Angeles at the Profiles in History auction on December 18, Reuters reports.

My Bloody Valentine have announced a headlining slot at Japan's Tokyo Rocks festival in May 2013, where they will be playing exclusive material from a brand new album. The album, the very-long-awaited follow-up to 1991’s classic Loveless, has been 21 years in the making. It will be released on frontman Kevin Shields’ website before the end of the year, and will be followed by a further EP of brand new material.

The first bands on the bill for TV On The Radio and Deerhunter's 2013 ATP festivals have been unveiled. The first weekend, which will be curated by TV On The Radio (May 10-12, 2013), will see performances from TV On The Radio, Spank Rock, El-P, Saul Williams, Tinariwen, Shabazz Palaces, Thee Oh Sees, CSS, Daniel Higgs (Lungfish), Celebration, Talibam! and North America.

Jimi Hendrix's set from the 1969 Woodstock festival is set to receive a cinematic release. The performance will be shown on November 29 and December 4 at more than 30 cinemas across the UK, and in movie theatres globally. The gig is being released to celebrate the 70th year of Hendrix's birth and will play alongside the film Live At Woodstock, which features interviews with band members Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell, as well as engineer Eddie Kramer and Woodstock promoter Michael Lang. Live At Woodstock is directed by Bob Smeaton [Festival Express].

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has revealed that Dave Grohl will be drumming on the band's forthcoming new album. Grohl is filling in for Joey Castillo, who has left the band according to Homme, who broke the news yesterday evening [November 6] on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show. Grohl has long had close ties with Queens Of The Stone Age, drumming on the band's 2002 album, Songs For The Deaf. The band also posted a picture on their Facebook page, showing Grohl's name on the mixing desk.

Bob Dylan has embraced social media for the first time in the wake of Barack Obama's victory in the US election. Dylan, who has over 4 million "likes" on his official Facebook, posted a status update prior to the confirmation that Obama would serve a second term as US President. Taking a slightly less enthusiastic tone than you may expect, Dylan delivered a sobering message and said he was not expecting a landslide victory for the Democrats.

Rapper Jay-Z performed a special version of his hit "99 Problems" at a rally for Obama's re-election campaign in Columbus, Ohio, changing the lyrics to reference Obama's Republican opponent Mitt Romney. Jay-Z's new version swaps the line "I've got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one" for "I've got 99 problems but Mitt ain't one". Watch the clip by clicking the link below.