Neil Young played an acoustic set at Farm Aid 2013 on Saturday night (September 21).
The event, which took place in Saratoga Springs, New York, also included Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp as well as Pegi Young and The Survivors, who included her husband Neil in their line-up.
Paul McCartney debuted three new tracks from his forthcoming album 'New' at a gig in Las Vegas this weekend (Saturday, September 21) – scroll down to watch them.
McCartney appeared at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, where he played three tracks from his forthcoming album New - the title track, "Everybody Out There" and "Save Us".
New will be released on October 14 and features production from Giles Martin, Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth and Ethan Johns.
Mazzy Star have unveiled the video for their new song "California". Watch it below.
"California" is taken from the band's forthcoming album Seasons Of Your Day, their first in 17 years, which comes out in the UK on Monday (September 23).
Mazzy Star will begin a North American tour in support of their new album on November 3. European dates are expected to be announced soon.
The Seasons Of Your Day tracklisting in full:
'In The Kingdom'
'California'
'I've Gotta Stop'
'Does Someone Have Your Baby Now'
'Common Burn'
Television nearly completed a comeback album six years ago, it has been revealed.
The band recorded 16 songs at New York's Stratosphere Sound recording studios between Christmas and New Year in 2007 with engineer Geoff Sanoff. The tracks, which have been sitting in the vaults ever since, still need mixing and vocals, Rolling Stone reports.
The tracklisting for Arcade Fire's forthcoming new album Reflektor has leaked online.
The 13 tracks, spread over two discs, were revealed on Amazon France this weekend. New single Reflektor is the album's opening track, and is followed by "We Exist", "Flashbulb Eyes", "Here Comes The Night Time", "Normal Person", "You Already Know", "Joan Of Arc", "Here Comes The Night Time II", "Awful Sound (Oh Erydice)", "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheous)", "Porno", "Afterlife", and "Supersymmetry".
Giles Martin, producer and son of Beatles collaborator George Martin, discusses his work on the new Paul McCartney album, in the latest issue of Uncut (dated November 2013), out on Wednesday, September 25.
Tom Waits has announced he will be playing at this year's Bridge School Benefit.
Waits announced the news via his Facebook and Twitter - accounts on Saturday, September 21.
He Tweeted the following message:
"ALERT! Tom will perform a full acoustic set feat songs from BAD AS ME for the upcoming Bridge School Benefit."
On Facebook, a longer statement read:
The coverage in last weekend’s broadsheet arts pages of Cormac McCarthy’s new book was puzzling, to say the least: there wasn’t any. As you might expect, there were plenty of reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge, which was also released this week – The Times even ran with a preview/review of The Goldfish, Donna Tartt’s first novel in a decade, which isn’t published for another month. But, strangely, the publication of The Counselor by Cormac McCarthy passed by without comment.
Stephen Stills, Emmylou Harris and Dr John were among the artists honoured at the Americana Music Honors & Awards 2013 on Wednesday night [September 18].
The ceremony took place in the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Stills also performed "For What It's Worth", alongside fellow Buffalo Springfield member Richie Furay shortly after being awarded the Spirit of Americana/Free Speech in Music Award.
