The Flaming Lips have broken the world record for playing the most live shows in 24 hours.
BBC News reports that the Oklahoma band performed eight times across the Mississippi Delta as part of MTV's O Music Awards, beating the previous record set by Jay-Z.
The rapper played seven gigs from Atlanta to Los Angeles in 2006, but Wayne Coyne and co went one better after starting their run of shows in Memphis, Tennessee and finishing in New Orleans, Louisiana, with 20 minutes to spare before the deadline.
The Rolling Stones have debuted an updated version of their famous lips and tongue logo, in honour of their 50th anniversary.
The original logo was designed in 1971 by John Pasche, a student the Royal College of Art in London. It made its debut on the sleeve for the band's Sticky Fingers album.
The updated version was designed by Shepard Fairey, best known for his work in the 2008 American presidential election campaign, for which he designed the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
Arctic Monkeys have spoken about their plans for the follow-up to Suck It And See and have said they want to make a "heavier' new album.
The Sheffield band, who have just completed their world tour in support of their fourth studio album, told Artrocker that they're making plans for its follow-up and are hoping to keep writing tracks in the vein of recent single "R U Mine".
Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig has given an update on the progress of the band's new LP and says that they now have "80 per cent of the songs" ready for the album.
The singer, who was speaking to The Walkmen's frontman Hamilton Leithauser for Spin, said that working on the follow-up to their 2010 effort Contra had been a "long process" but hinted that they were nearing completion on the record.
When Neil Young brings Crazy Horse to London in 1976, I'm four rows from the front of the stage at Hammersmith Odeon. It's late March, a Sunday night. I still have the tickets, somewhere, probably curled at the edges and yellow with age by now, a bit like most of us who were there at the time.
