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Daft Punk are currently streaming their new album 'Random Access Memories' online via iTunes. The album is officially released on May 20.

Kiss plan to open over 100 restaurants in North America. The band have just opened the third branch of Rock & Brews in the greater Los Angeles area and have said that they wish to open 100 more in the next five years.

The National are streaming their forthcoming new album Trouble Will Find Me online. The Brooklyn band don't release their sixth studio LP until May 20, but have now made the record available for stream via iTunes. Trouble Will Find Me is the follow-up to the band's 2010 album, High Violet, and features contributions from St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten and Sufjan Stevens. It was produced by Craig Silvey.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has become the first person ever to record a music video in space, filming his version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station.

Camden Council have given the go-ahead to the plans to install a statue of late singer Amy Winehouse in the borough. Artist Scott Easton's sculpture of the singer has been in the works for some time but, according to the Camden New Journal, Camden Town Conservation Authority had stated its opposition to the proposal. However, after a meeting earlier this week, local councillors approved the project and the statue will now be installed at a balcony in at Camden's Roundhouse venue this September.

Lindsey Buckingham has confirmed that Fleetwood Mac plan to continue releasing new material. The recently reformed band put out their first new material in 10 years with their Extended Play EP and, in an interview with Billboard, Buckingham said it was "safe to say" that they would be releasing more new songs in the future.

New Order have announced the release of a new live album. Live At Bestival 2012, recorded at Rob and Josie da Bank's annual bash last year, will be released on CD and download on July 8. All profits will go to the Isle Of Wight Youth Trust. Drummer Stephen Morris said: "We played at so many festivals in 2012, and our highlights were, without doubt, the last two in the UK, Portmeirion and Bestival. Saturday night was fancy dress night, and Gillian enjoyed dressing up in her peacock head-dress.

Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney and Miles Davis came close to forming a supergroup, it has been revealed. When Hendrix, Davis and Davis's drummer Tony Williams were planning to record an album together in 1969, backed by producer Alan Douglas, they sent a telegram to McCartney asking him to join them on bass. The telegram, sent on October 22 1969, read: "We are recording and (sic) LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."

The comedian Andy Kaufman is to release Andy And His Grandmother, which is being billed as the comedian's first-ever comedy record. Kaufman, best known as one of the stars of TV series Taxi and who was played by Jim Carrey in the biopic Man In The Moon, is reported to have died in 1984. Scroll down to watch footage of Kaufman on the David Letterman show.

Courtney Love will be embarking on a solo tour under her own name next month in the United States. Though she resurrected the Hole name to release the album Nobody's Daughter in 2010, at the end of last year she tweeted: "Hole is dead". Nobody's Daughter was the first Hole album since 1998's Celebrity Skin. Love was the only original member in the most recent incarnation of the group. She was instead backed by a band which included Micko Larkin, formerly of British indie act Larrikin Love.