Keith Richards will release a children's with his daughter, Theodora, later this year.
The guitarist will release Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar on September 9 after signing a deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Richards' artist daughter Theordora has illustrated the picture book, which was co-written with Barnaby Harris and Bill Shapiro.
Neil Young launched his high quality digital Pono music player and service yesterday (March 11) at SXSW in Austin, Texas, saying of the player "once you hear this, you can't go back."
“There wasn’t a lot of pre-production for What’s The Story. . .If we were at home, the postman would drop off an envelope and in it would be a cassette saying ‘Noel demos’. You’d get a phone call: ‘There’s the next album. Learn it. See you in a week.’ That’s the way Noel worked. Everyone would figure out the chords – there was no point asking him, he didn’t know the name of the fucking things. ‘It’s one of them where your finger’s up there. . .’”
A spokesperson for U2 has denied that the band have pushed back the release date of their 13th studio album to 2015.
Investigations by Billboard last week suggested that the band had pushed the album back to next year. It reported that the band had booked further studio time with producers Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder, who would join the project's main producer Danger Mouse. It also suggested that U2 had cancelled a tour due to take place in summer 2014.
The Stooges are recording an album of material without Iggy Pop.
The line-up of James Williamson, Mike Watt, Steve Mackay and Toby Dammit are working on an album, Re-Licked, with a series of guest vocalists including Mark Lanegan and Jello Biafra.
Neil Young has confirmed a pair of solo shows.
Young, who is due to play four solo shows in Los Angeles, has now announced two shows in Dallas, Texas at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on April 17 and 18.
Tickets for the two-night run will go on sale March 14 and are available here.
Roddy Frame has announced details of new album, Seven Dials.
Seven Dials will be released on AED on Monday May 5h 2014.
It's Frame's first since Western Skies in 2006, was recorded at West Heath Studios in London and co-produced with Seb Lewsley.
The track listing for Seven Dials is as follows:
White Pony
Postcard
Into The Sun
Rear View Mirror
In Orbit
Forty Days Of Rain
English Garden
On The Waves
The Other Side
From A Train
Neil Young will debut his new digital audio format Pono at South By Southwest tomorrow [March 11]. Details of the service have now appeared online.
A number of news sources - including The Guardian - report that Young will launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for his new PonoPlayer device on 15 March, with early buyers getting a discount on its planned $399 price.
David Bowie will release two limited edition picture discs on Record Store Day next month.
The annual celebration of music shops will take place on April 19 and Bowie has outlined plans to release a 7" picture disc of "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" in the UK, while North American fans will be able to purchase the single "1984" on 7" picture disc.
The first trailer for HBO's forthcoming Bruce Springsteen documentary has been revealed. Scroll down to watch it.
Titled High Hopes, the film follows Springsteen as he works on his latest album of the same name. High Hopes, the album, was released in January 2014 and the trailer shows Springsteen and the E Street Band as they recruit Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello and begin work on the record.
