According to reports, Mike Love is to continue touring without Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and David Marks when the current 50th anniversary tour finishes at the end of this week. The line-up for future shows will instead consist of Love, Bruce Johnston along with their regular touring band.
"As we move on, Bruce and I look forward to performing live for Beach Boys fans everywhere," Love said in a press release, also noting, "The 50th Reunion Tour was designed to be a set tour with a beginning and an end to mark a special 50-year milestone for the band."
A new CD featuring live songs from Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble house concerts, will be released on November 20, according to a report on Rolling Stone.
Midnight Ramble Sessions Volume 3 is one of the last projects Helm completed before he died on April 19. He and producer Brendan McDonough are reported to have sifted through hundreds of gigs which took place at the Rambles held in Helm's Woodstock barn. Guests on the album include Chris Robinson and Allen Toussaint.
John Lydon has slammed the reissue campaign surrounding the Sex Pistols' seminal album 'Never Mind The Bollocks…'.
Speaking to NME, the Public Image Ltd. frontman said that although he was happy the album was being "re-released properly" and given a sonic overhaul, he was keeping himself "distant" from the media furore.
Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has said that he plans to 'walk away' from his double Grammy award winning act.
Speaking to 89.3 The Current - via The Daily Swarm - Vernon said of the band: "I really feel the need to walk away from it while I still care about it. And then if I come back to it – if at all – I'll feel better about it and be renewed or something to do that."
Emmett Kelly has been making records as The Cairo Gang for a good few years now but, if he’s known at all, chances are it’s for his unusually enduring role in Will Oldham’s band: the amazing Royal Stable site suggests he’s been in on most Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy projects since 2006.
AC/DC singer Bon Scott, who died aged 33 in 1980, is to have a monument honouring him erected in his birthplace.
Scott was born in Kirriemuir in Scotland in 1946, before his family moved to Australia when he was six, and a community group want to honour their local hero by erecting a statue.
DD8 Music, who are also behind the annual Bon Scott music festival in the town, have approached sculptor John McKenna to design a statue as a lasting tribute, reports The Daily Record.
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder helped raise $1.7million at a fundraiser for US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
The singer performed two Pearl Jam Songs, "Rise" and "Without You", along with covers of James Taylor's "Millworker" and Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World", at the $20,000 ticket event at the home of singer-songwriter Don Miggs in Tampa, Florida.
Charles Manson has sent Marilyn Manson an open letter from his prison cell.
The rocker, whose real name is Brian Warner, took the latter half of his moniker from Manson's surname and his first half from actress Marilyn Monroe.
A number of Manson's bandmates took similar stage names, with the likes of Twiggy Ramirez, Ginger Fish and Madonna Wayne Gacy also inspired in the same way.
The postcard, which leaked online via Loudwire earlier this week, is largely abstract, but has a slightly threatening undertone to a number of its passages.
