The Beach Boys are set to perform alongside Foster The People and Maroon 5 at this Sunday's (February 12) Grammy Awards.
Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks will perform together for the first time in over 15 years on stage at Los Angeles' Staples Center this weekend. They will be joined by Grammy nominees Foster The People - pictured below - and Maroon 5 for the performance, reveals Grammy.com.
Sigur Ros have revealed their first live date in almost four years, announcing plans to play Bestival in September.
The band have said on their website that more tour dates will be revealed soon, but added that this will be their only UK show of 2012.
Nick Cave, Blondie's Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell, Warren Ellis, Lydia Lunch and more are all set to appear on 'The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project - The Journey is Long' album, a tribute to the frontman of cult 1980s alt.rock band The Gun Club, who died from a brain haemorrhage in 1996.
Richard Hawley has announced full details of his new album 'Standing At The Sky's Edge'.
The album, which is Hawley's first for his new label Parlophone, will come out on May 7. It contains a total of nine tracks and is the follow-up to his 2009 effort 'Truelove's Gutter'.
Speaking about the album, Hawley said he wanted to make a simpler record and move away from the grander sounds of his previous albums. He said of the album: "I wanted to get away from the orchestration of my previous records and make a live album with two guitars, bass, drums and rocket noises!"
I was playing a new record the other day that was, to all intensive purposes, mediocre American indie-rock; maybe with a touch of mediocre American post-rock. Uneventful enough, you might imagine, except for the fact that a constant barrage of overcomplicated arrangements – shooting for some kind of avant-garde audacity, I guess - made it actively annoying rather than merely nondescript.
