Blur have announced an intimate UK tour for this August.
The Britpop icons will play four shows on the tour, beginning at Margate's Winter Gardens on August 1. They will then play two shows at Wolverhampton's Civic Hall on August 5 and 6, before finishing off at Plymouth's Pavilions on August 7.
Animal Collective have revealed that their new studio album will be titled Centipede Hz.
The Baltimore electro-psychedelic band will release the album, which is the 10th LP of their career, in September via Domino Records.
The band made the announcement via a video on their official website, which revealed the record's title, a September release and a number of song titles.
What better way to kick off the final night of Club Uncut at The Great Escape than with a Brooklyn bar band – or indeed, a bar solo artist, the wily R'n'B raconteur Hans Chew.
Bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn, who played with Booker T. & the M.G.'s, has died in Tokyo aged 70.
The M.G.'s were the house band for STAX records and Dunn can be heard on a number of tracks including Otis Redding's "Respect" and Albert King's "Born Under A Bad Sign".
The bassist had been in the Japanese city to play a series of concerts as part of a STAX show, featuring Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd, and had played two gigs on Saturday night. Cropper posted on his Facebook page that Dunn had died in his sleep this morning (May 13).
Neil Young has debuted a second video from his forthcoming album with Crazy Horse, Americana.
The video for "Jesus' Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain") follows "Oh Susannah", the video for which Young released on May 1.
Americana, Young's first album with Crazy Horse since Greendale in 2003, is set for release on June 5.
The weather has turned out glorious in Brighton on the second day of The Great Escape – but Friday's bill at Club Uncut is of a decidely darker bent.
ZZ Top have previewed new material on a commercial for American beer, Jeremiah Weed.
The advert features the members of the Texan band emerging from inside a giant beer cooler and surprising customers. The advert was shot at Bubba's Country Store in Austin, Texas.
The track the band perform, "I've Got To Get Paid", is the first taster from their forthcoming album, produced by Rick Rubin.
Suede have scrapped the majority of the material their aired at their comeback gigs last year - and have returned to the studio with the man who produced their first four albums.
Ed Buller is now helming the album, which will be the reunited Britpop band's first in over a decade. Writing on the band's Facebook page, singer Brett Anderson said that the they had been "merrily chipping away at the huge block of raw stone that is, whisper it, the new Suede album" and posted a picture of them together. He added:
