Dinosaur Jr are set to release their brand new album, I Bet On Sky, on September 17.
Their release is their tenth studio LP since their 1985 debut and will be put out through [PIAS]. The record follows 2009's Farm. The band will be playing shows in North America over the summer and UK dates are set to be announced soon.
The I Bet On Sky tracklisting is:
'Don't Pretend You Didn't Know'
'Watch The Corners'
'Almost Fare'
'Stick A Toe In'
'Rude'
'I Know It Oh So Well'
'Pierce The Morning Rain'
'What Was That'
'Recognition'
Paul Weller will release a new cover of The Beatles' "Birthday" on Monday [June 18] to help celebrate Paul McCartney's 70th birthday.
Weller has recorded a cover of the Fab Four's 1968 track, which served as the opening track on the second disc of The White Album and will release it on Monday as a download single with all the proceeds going to War Child. The track will only be available for purchase on Monday.
Beastie Boys member Ad Rock is set to perform in public for the first time since the death of bandmate MCA.
Ad Rock - aka Adam Horovitz - will DJ tonight (June 12) at Death by Audio in Brooklyn, New York at a fundraising event for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, reports Rolling Stone.
Film director Danny Boyle has unveiled a number of elements of this summer's Olympics opening ceremony, which he is masterminding.
Paul McCartney has already revealed that he will be performing at the event in London on July 27, saying that he is "closing the opening" of London 2012.
Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan has laid into Radiohead, declaring them "pompous".
The singer, whose band release their new studio album Oceania on Monday (June 18), said that Oxford band were a symbol of the current culture of "valuation" which he despises.
The Stone Roses have confirmed that all their summer shows will still go ahead as planned, despite frontman Ian Brown calling the band's drummer Reni a 'c**t' onstage in Amsterdam last night (June 12) - which you can watch below.
The Strokes have begun work on their next studio album, according to reports last night (June 12).
The band, who were last in the UK to headline last summer's Reading And Leeds Festivals, have been working on new material at the famous Electric Lady Studios in their home city of New York, Billboard reports.
According to the report, the band are working with producer Gus Oberg, who was at the controls for guitarist Albert Hammond Jnr's 2008 solo album Como Te Llama? and also worked on the band's 2011 fourth album, Angles.
Holograms of deceased Doors frontman Jim Morrison and rock icon Jimi Hendrix are currently being developed.
The use of holograms in live performance has been a big talking point ever since Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg brought the hologram of Tupac onstage at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April, with the likes of Elvis Pressley, Marvin Gaye and even Justin Bieber discussed as popstars who could be in line to become holograms.
The Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown called the band's drummer Reni a "c**t" onstage in Amsterdam at tonight's (June 12) gig at the Heineken Music Hall.
After another comeback performance, Brown returned to the stage on his own after the band had played their main set to tell the audience "the drummer's gone home". It was anticipated that the band would play an encore of "I Am The Resurrection" - which they had played at both their shows in Barcelona last week.
The Frank Zappa Family Trust, headed by Zappa’s widow Gail Zappa, have signed a global license and distribution deal with Universal Music to release 60 of the iconic composer’s recordings.
The campaign begins on July 31 with 12 recordings, with another dozen recordings to be released monthly through the end of 2012.
