Damian Marley is to headline the Respect Jamaica 50th festival in London later this month (July).
Also known as 'Junior Gong', the youngest son of reggae legend Bob Marley, will take to the stage at London's IndigO2 on July 26. It will be his first UK live appearance since his 'Distant Relative' shows with Nas in 2011.
The Jamaica 50th festival is billed as "a celebration of Jamaican culture to mark 50 years of independence". Special guests at the event will include Damian's half-brothers Stephen Marley and Julian Marley.
Stephen Stills has revealed that Crosby, Stills And Nash won't make a new studio album.
In an interview with www.musicradar.com, Stills explained that despite lengthy sessions with producer Rick Rubin for a proposed covers album, CSN won't record another studio album. A live DVD/CD, CSN 2012 is scheduled for release in America on July 17.
Stills said: "Well, there's the DVD, right, a live set. The thing's done, it's ready to go. But an album? We won't make another album, we won't finish one."
John Lydon has called for drugs to be legalised - so long as there is sufficient information to vet them properly. Watch his comments below.
During a largely uneventful appearance on Question Time last night (July 6), the PiL frontman advocated a laissez-faire approach towards the recreational use of drugs. Lydon, known for his affiliation with Country Life butter, compared banned chemical substances to table salt.
I wrote a long review of the new Sun Kil Moon album, "Among The Leaves", in the latest edition of Uncut. This is the unedited version of the email interview I conducted with Mark Kozelek that runs alongside the piece. Pretty funny and revealing, I think, not unlike his new album.
New Order closed the first night of Open'er Festival in Gdansk, Poland last night (July 4) with a 90-minute greatest hits set, culminating in an encore of Joy Division classics.
The appearance marked the Factory records legends' first ever appearance in Poland and had particular poignancy as Joy Division were initially named after Polish capital city, Warsaw.
The Stone Roses are set to re-enter the UK Top 10 this weekend after their triumphant homecoming gigs at Heaton Park.
The reunited band's compilation The Very Best Of The Stone Roses is set to reach Number Eight on Sunday (July 8), while their classic debut self-titled LP is set to take the Number 32 slot.
Chris Brown, meanwhile, is set to take the top spot in the album chart with his new record Fortune, with last week's Number One Linkin Park down to Number Three with Living Things and Maroon 5 at Number Two with Overexposed, reports the Official Charts Company.
Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee has posted a Facebook rant at fans who ask him for a picture.
In the post the drummer says people can’t even imagine "what kinda crazy has happened" when fans ask him to pose for photos when he is trying to have private time.
A collaboration between Iggy Pop and Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, for the soundtrack of TV show True Blood, has debuted online.
Visit SoundCloud to listen to the song, which is called "Let's Boot And Rally", and will appear in the next True Blood episode, which airs in the US on July 8.
Of the collaboration Iggy Pop has said: "I've always liked to bite. I guess this makes me a singing vampire, does this mean I have a licence to suck? Hi Bethany..."
