The Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane is set for DVD release.

The film, which premiered in cinemas across the UK on October 18 and was subsequently broadcast on BBC2 to coincide with the band’s two date stint at London’s O2 Arena last month (November 25 and 29), will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 7, 2013.

The film, directed by Brett Morgen, documents the band’s career from their early road trips and gigs in the 1960s, via the release of 1972’s seminal ‘Exile On Main Street’ right up to present day.

It features stacks of unseen footage of the band, including commentaries from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor.

Speaking about the film previously, director Brett Morgen said: “Crossfire Hurricane invites the audience to experience firsthand the Stones’ nearly mythical journey from outsiders to rock and roll royalty. This is not an academic history lesson. Crossfire Hurricane allows the viewer to experience the Stones’ journey from a unique vantage point. It’s an aural and visual rollercoaster ride.”

The Rolling Stones will play the Barclays Center in New York on December 8. They will then play two dates at The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jerseyon December 13 and 15.

A host of musicians are set to feature on a pirate themed compilation album, called Son Of Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys.

The album is being put together by Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski and producer Hal Willner and follows their similar 2006 effort, Rogue’s Gallery.

The new, 36 track double CD will be released on February 18, 2013, on the Anti- label and features a host of talent, including Tom Waits featuring Keith Richards, Iggy Pop featuring A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Patti Smith and Johnny Depp, Beth Orton, Shane MacGowan, Michael Stipe and Courtney Love, Dr John, Marianne Faithfull and Broken Social Scene.

The Son oOf Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys tracklisting is:

CD 1

Shane MacGowan – “Leaving of Liverpool” [ft. Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski]

Robyn Hitchcock – “Sam’s Gone Away”

Beth Orton – “River Come Down”

Sean Lennon – “Row Bullies Row” [ft. Jack Shit]

Tom Waits – “Shenandoah” [ft.Keith Richards]

Ivan Neville – “Mr Stormalong”

Iggy Pop – “Asshole Rules the Navy” [ft. A Hawk and a Hacksaw]

Macy Gray – “Off to Sea Once More”

Ed Harcourt – “The Ol’ OG”

Shilpa Ray – “Pirate Jenny” [ft. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis]

Patti Smith and Johnny Depp – “The Mermaid”

Chuck E Weiss – “Anthem for Old Souls”

Ed Pastorini – “Orange Claw Hammer”

The Americans – “Sweet and Low”

Robin Holcomb and Jessica Kenny – “Ye Mariners All”

Gavin Friday and Shannon McNally – “Tom’s Gone to Hilo”

Kenny Wollesen and The Himalayas Marching Band – “Bear Away”

CD 2

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – “Handsome Cabin Boy”

Michael Stipe and Courtney Love – “Rio Grande”

Marc Almond – “Ship in Distress”

Dr John – “In Lure of the Tropics”

Todd Rundgren – “Rolling Down to Old Maui”

Dan Zanes – “Jack Tar on Shore” [ft. Broken Social Scene]

Sissy Bounce (Katey Red and Big Freedia) – “Sally Racket” [ft. Akron/Family]

Broken Social Scene – “Wild Goose”

Marianne Faithfull – “Flandyke Shore” [ft. Kate and Anna McGarrigle]

Ricky Jay – “The Chantey of Noah and his Ark (Old School Song)”

Michael Gira – “Whiskey Johnny”

Petra Haden – “Sunshine Life for Me” [ft. Lenny Pickett]

Jenni Muldaur – “Row the Boat Child”

Richard Thompson – “General Taylor” [ft. Jack Shit]

Tim Robbins – “Marianne” [ft. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs]

Kembra Phaler – “Barnacle Bill the Sailor [ft. Antony, Joseph Arthur, and Foetus]

Angelica Huston – “Missus McGraw” [ft. The Weisberg Strings]

Iggy Pop and Elegant Too – “The Dreadnought”

Mary Margaret O’Hara – “Then Said the Captain to Me (Two Poems of the Sea)”

Jazz musician Dave Brubeck has died at the age of 91.

The iconic pianist and composer passed away earlier today at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut (December 5) of heart failure, reports the Associated Press. He would have turned 92 tomorrow.

Born in California in 1920, he went on the serve in the Second World War, mostly as a musician in Europe. He formed the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and their 1959 album, Time Out, was the first ever million-selling jazz LP. Time Out also featured the classic composition ‘Take Five’.

In 1996, Brubeck won a Grammy lifetime achievement award and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009.

A birthday celebration concert had been planned for tomorrow in Waterbury, Connecticut. The show will still take place but will now be a tribute to the life of Brubeck.

Speaking to AP in 1995, Brubeck said of his career: “When you start out with goals — mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically — you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It’s still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.”

Kraftwerk will play an eight-night residency at the Tate Modern in London next February.

The iconic German electronic band will play a series of shows at the art gallery’s Turbine Hall from February 6–14 in 2013. The gigs, which are called ‘1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8’, will take on the same format as the run of dates they played at New York’s Museum Of Modern Art in April of this year, and the shows they have confirmed to take place in their hometown of Dusseldorf next January.

Each gig will see the band accompanied by 3D visuals as they play each of their studio albums live in full. The dates are as follows:

1 – ‘Autobahn’ (1974) (February 6)

8 – ‘Tour De France’ (2003) (14)

Speaking about the shows, Tate Modern director Chris Dercon said: “As a former power station, Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is an ideal venue for Kraftwerk’s explorations of technology, energy and rhythm. Bringing together music, video and performance, these events will be true gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.”

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 12 December at 7.30am GMT. For more information visit Tate.org.uk.

Kraftwerk last performed in the UK in 2009, at Bestival and the Manchester International Festival. At the latter they appeared at the Manchester Velodrome and whilst playing ‘Tour de France’ were accompanied by members of the GB cycling team, who cycled around the track along with the music.

Josh Homme has said that the songs he has recorded with Dave Grohl for the new Queens Of The Stone Age album “sound like running in a dream”.

The frontman, who recruited Grohl to play drums on the album after Joey Castillo left the band, was speaking to Zane Lowe as part of an interview broadcast on Radio 1 this week and opened up on how the new album sessions are going. Speaking to the DJ, Homme said: “I think this record is a little more lyrically vulnerable, but I also think it’s sort of musically deeper and richer, and it’s a little bit stranger.”

Homme later added that there are “a lot of struggles going on,” with the recording but that: “This record basically sounds like you’re running in a dream the whole time.”

Dave Grohl has a long standing relationship with Homme and famously filled in as drummer when the band recorded their 2002 album ‘Songs For The Deaf’. Speaking about the reunion earlier this year, Homme said: [Grohl] and I have this wonderful musical relationship which we don’t have with other people. It’s a very cool and comfortable position.”

It has also been confirmed that both Trent Reznor and former bassist Nick Oliveri has been recording with the band ahead of their new album release.

Devendra Banhart is set to release his new album, Mala, in the Spring of 2013.

Co-produced by Banhart and his guitarist Noah Georgeson, the album comes ahead of festival dates and a full tour, details of which will be released soon.

Mala follows the folk rock artist’s 2009 album What Will We Be – which was nominated for a Grammy for Banhart’s self-designed artwork – and will be his first release on his new label Nonesuch Records. Mala is Banhart’s eighth studio album. He released his debut LP, The Charles C. Leary, in 2002.

Earlier this year, Banhart, alongside LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Beck, provided the soundtrack to a new artwork by Doug Aitken in Washington, DC.

The piece, called “Song 1”, saw the Los Angeles based multimedia artist projecting 360 degree films onto the exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum.

The soundtrack was made up of the above acts and more singing their own versions of the 1930s jazz standard, ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’.

Elizabeth Price, former singer with 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, has won The Turner Prize.

Price scooped the prestigious art world prize last night (December 3) at a ceremony in London.

Click above to listen to Talulah Gosh’s 1986 single “Beatnik Boy”.

Twee-poppers Talulah Gosh formed in Oxford in 1986 and split in 1988. Their name came from an NME headline about Altered Images frontwoman Clare Grogan.

Actor Jude Law gave Price the £25,000 prize for her 20 minute ‘immersive’ video piece, The Woolworths Choir of 1979, reports the Guardian.

Price’s piece incorporated the song ‘Out in the Streets’ by the Shangri-Las and used archive footage of a deadly 1979 fire which killed 10 people. The piece was part of a trilogy of films.

Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis, who chaired this year’s Turner Prize jury, said Price won because of the “seductive and immersive qualities” of her work.

Thom Yorke has confirmed details of Atoms For Peace’s debut album Amok, which is set for release on February 25.

Atoms For Peace are the Radiohead frontman’s side project with Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, super-producer Nigel Godrich and percussionist Mauro Refosco.

Writing about the album and band on Radiohead’s official website, Yorke wrote: “It’s a while to wait I know so I’m sure some other things will occur before then. We formed to learn to play ‘The Eraser‘ record, if you don’t know that, and discovered a really good energy doing that.. and it fell into this record. I’m still reeling from being on tour for much of the year but we are planning to get together and play etc next year! We’re figuring all that out right now. Atoms is a ongoing and open ended project, where it leads i know not for certain …. which is what is nice about it.”

The Amok tracklisting is as follows:

‘Before Your Very Eyes’

‘Default’

‘Ingenue’

‘Dropped’

‘Unless’

‘Stuck Together Pieces’

‘Judge Jury and Executioner’

‘Reverse Running’

‘Amok’

Amok will be released via XL Recordings.

Suede have confirmed that they will play London’s Alexandra Palace in March 2013.

The band will perform at the north London venue on March 30. The gig announcement came at the end of a puzzle-style countdown Suede put on their Facebook page last week.

The first revelation that came from the online game was that a new Suede studio album will be released in 2013. Earlier this autumn, Suede frontman Brett Anderson said that Suede’s new album sounds like “a cross between bits of ‘Dog Man Star’ and bits of ‘Coming Up'”.

Speaking to The Quietus, Anderson explained that their sixth album “doesn’t sound anything like” their last LP, 2002’s ‘A New Morning’, but has more in common with their second album, released in 1994, and their third, which came out in 1996.

He added: “Without wishing to be facetious, it sounds like Suede. We’re not trying to reinvent the sound of the band, that’d be a disastrous thing to do. I think that’s possibly where we went wrong on the last two albums.”

The Specials have announced plans for a 10 date tour of the UK next year.

The ska legends will play throughout May 2013, kicking off the run of dates at Glasgow Barrowland on May 10. They will visit Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and more, finishing up at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on May 28.

The Specials reformed in 2009 and last year changed their mind about splitting up again. Previously, frontman Terry Hall had claimed that he no longer wanted to play live shows with the band, indicating that their 2011 show at London Alexandra Palace would be their final gig.

However, The Specials’ guitarist Lynval Golding then told BBC 6 Music after the show that the band were “in a completely different mood” and that they had not decided to part ways.

The Specials performed alongside Blur and New Order in London’s Hyde Park back in August as part of a special Olympic Games closing ceremony concert.

The Specials will play:

Glasgow Barrowland (May 10, 2013)

London O2 Academy Brixton (28)

Photo: Phil Wallis

Fleetwood Mac have announced the first leg of their planned 2013 reunion world tour.

The much-revered band have confirmed a large run of US shows to take place from April to June next year, and also told Rolling Stone that they planned on playing a spate of European festivals and shows, too.

Speaking about the dates, singer Stevie Nicks said: “It’s the perfect time to go back out. 2013 is going to be the year of Fleetwood Mac.”

Nicks also teased that fans would be treated to new songs at the shows, revealing: “We actually have two new Fleetwood Mac songs that I cut with Lindsey two weeks ago we might play. I had a really good time working with him for four days at his house. I got to hang out with his family and his kids, his grown up kids, and really connect with him again. We’re pretty proud of what we have done, and we’re looking at it through the eyes of wisdom now, instead of through the eyes of jealousy and resentment and anger.”

Discussing the prospect of playing European shows, meanwhile, she said: “If everything goes will we’ll be in Europe doing festivals this summer. Then we’ll actually tour Europe, which is different than just doing festivals. Then we might do fifteen or so shows in Australia.”

Her comments could spark renewed speculation that the band are set to headline Glastonbury when the festival returns in 2013. When previously asked about the rumours, festival boss Emily Eavis said: “I think Fleetwood Mac would be amazing to get, I’ll be totally honest we haven’t had any conversations with them yet but, you know, it is still early days. We’re just talking to some headliners now. For us it’s about getting the balance of heritage bands, legends and new bands – just keeping that balance.”

Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham also provided some insight as to what fans could expect from the gigs. “We always have to play ‘Dreams,’ ‘Rhiannon,’ ‘Don’t Stop,’ ‘Tusk,’ ‘Big Love,’ ‘Landslide’ and all our most famous songs,” he said. “When you’ve gone through all your must-do’s, that’s 75% of your potential setlist. I think with the other 25 per cent, there are areas of our catalog that are more under-explored. Maybe we’ll play more songs from ‘Tusk’. I’d also like to see an extended middle portion of the show that’s just me and Stevie. This is just me talking from the top of my head. For now, I have no particular vision of what this tour is going to be.”

Fleetwood Mac will play:

Columbus Nationwide Arena (April 4)

Detroit Joe Louis Arena (12)

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have spoken about their working relationship, revealing that they are somewhere between brothers and a married couple.

In a new interview with Esquire, Richards says that he often “despises” his Rolling Stones bandmate but that ultimately he loves him like family. Speaking to the magazine, Richards says: “You’ve got two very volatile guys who’ve been through a whole lot of stuff in their life and still somehow manage. Sometimes I despise the man, others, I love that man so much. It’s like your brother. I never had one, so he’s my brother. That’s the way it is, bless his heart.”

Mick Jagger, meanwhile, seems less keen on the idea of being ‘married’ to Richards, stating: “People say the stupidest things and that’s one of the dumbest because it’s completely different from being married when you work with someone. I work with Keith and I’ve known him for a long time.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Richards shows just what the band means to him, comparing The Rolling Stones to every day essentials such as food and water. “What is there in life? There’s the air you breathe and the food you eat… and then there’s The Rolling Stones. They’ve just been there forever, for them, from their point of view. The world wouldn’t be complete without The Rolling Stones!”

The Rolling Stones played the second of their two London concerts last week with both Eric Clapton and Florence Welch joining them onstage at the O2 Arena.

Led Zeppelin have been honoured at the White House by Barack Obama for their contribution to America culture and the arts – watch a video of it below.

Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page were among a group of artists who received Kennedy Centre Honours, Sky News reports. David Letterman and Dustin Hoffman also received the award.

“When Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham burst onto the musical scene in the late 1960s, the world never saw it coming,” Obama said in his tribute.

“There was this singer with a mane like a lion and a voice like a banshee, a guitar prodigy who left people’s jaws on the floor, a versatile bassist who was equally at home on the keyboards, a drummer who played like his life depended on it,” he continued.

He added: “It’s been said that a generation of young people survived teenage angst with a pair of headphones and a Zeppelin album … but even now, 32 years after John Bonham’s passing – and we all I think appreciate the fact – the Zeppelin legacy lives on.”

The president then thanked band for behaving themselves at the White House given their history of “hotel rooms being trashed and mayhem all around”.

He finished his speech, saying: “We honour Led Zeppelin for making us all feel young, and for showing us that some guys who are not completely youthful can still rock!”

Led Zeppelin released their live DVD Celebration Day on November 19. The film is a concert of the band’s 2007 reunion show at London’s O2 Arena.