Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has formed a brand new, hip hop inspired band.
Vernon has joined forces with rapper Astronautilis and the pair recorded an entire album last weekend, ahead of Bon Iver's sets at this weekend (April 13-15) and next's (April 20-22) Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.
City Pages, via Stereogum, reports that the record also features Bon Iver drummer S. Carey and has been produced by Ryan Olson, with the new band working at Vernon's own April Base studio in Wisconsin.
A festival dedicated to late Clash frontman Joe Strummer is to be staged for the first time this summer.
The event entitled Strummer Of Love, will mark what would have been the singer's 60th birthday and the 10th anniversary of his death. It will be staged over three days from August 17-19 at an undisclosed location in Somerset. Strummer died from an undiagnosed congenital heart defect in December 2002.
Jack White has announced plans to release a new The White Stripes live DVD.
His label Third Man Records will release Under New Zealand Lights, as part of the 12th installment of the Vault subscription series.
The film culls footage from two early New Zealand performances in November 2000 at the King's Arms in Auckland, during the band's first international tour, as well as a October 2003 performance for students at the Freeman's Bay Primary School.
Graham Coxon, Blur guitarist and formidable solo artist in his own right, is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature.
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Morrissey has announced details of his only UK show to take place in Manchester this July.
The former Smiths' frontman will play a one-off gig at Manchester Arena on July 28. The date will be his first show in his hometown since playing the 02 Apollo Manchester in May 2009.
The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood has revealed that the band will start recording new material this month.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror, the guitarist said he and his bandmates would be hitting the studio to "throw some ideas around" in preparation for their 50th anniversary celebrations.
Wood, who said the band were eager "to get the feel again", added: It's like working out for the Olympics or something. You've got to go into training. So we're going to go into training.
Paul Weller has criticised the spate of "effing talent shows" on TV and claimed he would be "too embarrassed" to appear any of them.
Last year, former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher claimed that Weller was a big fan of The X Factor but, in an interview with the Radio Times, the Modfather insisted he was sick of TV singing contests and dismissed them as "Saturday-night viewing for the masses".
Bob Dylan's seminal 1975 album Blood On The Tracks is set to be turned into a film, according to reports.
The rights to the LP have been purchased by Brazilian company RT Features, who are now planning to adapt it into an English-speaking flick and are on the lookout for a director to helm the project.
AFP reports that RT's chief executive Rodrigo Teixeira said: "As longtime admirers of one of the greatest albums in the history of music, we feel privileged to be making this film.
Damon Albarn has revealed that Blur's Hyde Park gig might be the band's swan song.
In an interview with The Guardian, Albarn admitted that the band might call it a day after the show on August 12 to mark the end of the London Olympics.
When asked if the band would play live again after Hyde Park, Albarn responded by saying "no, not really". When pushed to reveal whether that really was it for the band, he said: "I think so, yeah."
