Country music legend Willie Nelson has posted the video for his cover version of Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe" online.
Scroll down to watch the video, which sees Nelson singing and playing guitar alongside his son Lukas while the pair go on a road trip together. The song is taken from Nelson's latest album, Heroes, which also sees him covering tracks by Coldplay and Tom Waits, as well as collaborating with rapper Snoop Dogg on the pro-cannabis track, "Roll Me Up".
John Cale has announced details of his new album, Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood.
The album will be released on October 1 on Domino Records' Lucky Six label and is his first since blackAcetate in 2005.
The tracklisting for Shifty Adventures... is:
I Wanna Talk 2 U
Scotland Yard
Hemmingway
Face To The Sky
Nookie Wood
December Rains
Mary
Vampire Cafe
Mothra
Living With You
Midnight Feast
Sandman (Flying Dutchman)
Cale will also tour the UK in October.
Dates confirmed are:
Friday, October 5: HMV Picturehouse, Edinburgh
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch has been found dead at his Nashville home. He was 66.
According to police, the musician died of an apparent suicide. Local news network WKRN reports that Welch's wife found him dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest at 12.15pm local time on June 7.
Police spokesperson Don Aaron said that a suicide note was recovered and added that Welch had recently been suffering from 'health issues'.
A brand new documentary about Glastonbury by filmmaker Julien Temple is set to premiere on June 15 on BBC4.
Glastonbury After Hours: Glastopia was shot at last year's festival on location in the Shangri-La, Arcadia, the Unfair Ground, Strummerville, Block 9 and the Common areas.
Temple directed 2006's acclaimed Glastonbury documentary film, which delved into the history of the festival, which is taking a fallow year this summer, before returning in 2013.
Ry Cooder has announced details of a new album, Election Special, due for release on August 20 on Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records.
The follow-up to last year's Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down, Cooder's album is released a few months ahead of the forthcoming US presidential election, which will be held in November 2012.
Cooder has written introductions to each of the tracks on the album:
Mutt Romney Blues
Wilco has released a new book, The Incredible Shrinking Tour Of Chicago.
The book is free and available now exclusively on Apple’s iBookstore for iPad at www.iTunes.com/iBookstore.
It documents the band’s five concerts from December 2011 in their native Chicago, with live photography, reproduction poster art and set lists.
A short week after all the jubilee bullshit, but a pretty hefty postbag these past two days, and some notable downloads, too, as you’ll see from this list.
Anybody familiar with the short Beatles cartoons produced for US TV (in which George Harrison appeared to have an Indian accent) would have expressed grave doubts that the same company, Brodax, might have been able to make not just a decent full length animated Beatle movie, but a brilliant one.
The technology company behind Tupac Shakur's hologram have confirmed Elvis Presley is to be resurrected in a similar manner.
After engineering the late rapper at this year's Coachella Music Festival, Digital Domain Media has teamed up with Core Media Group, the company that owns the licence rights to Presley, to digitally resurrect the late King of Rock 'n' Roll, reports Vanity Fair.
He is expected to appear on film, television and apparently concerts as an option as well.
Muse have unveiled the trailer for their new studio album, which looks set to be titled The 2nd Law. To watch the trailer, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click.
The trailer features a compilation of news footage over a musical backdrop, which initially begins as an ornate, classical piece in the style of track's like "Butterflies & Hurricanes" before morphing into a full-on dubstep track.
The trailer ends with the words 'The 2nd Law' and 'September 2012' being shown as the music fades out.
