Alice Cooper has announced a large-scale UK tour for later this year. The singer, who released his 22nd studio album Welcome 2 My Nightmare in September of last year, has booked in seven shows for the tour, including a Halloween date in Edinburgh. The run of shows kicks off at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena on October 24 and runs until November 1, when Cooper headlines Sheffield's City Hall. Support at each of the shows will come from Ugly Kid Joe and also from former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff MacKagans band Loaded.

Metallica have taken part in a publicity campaign to help the FBI to catch a man wanted in the death of a student who disappeared after one of the band's concerts. The student, 20-year old Morgan Harrington, attended Virginia Tech college and disappeared after a Metallica concert in October 2009 in Charlottesville. Her skeletal remains were discovered about three months later in a remote hay field about 10 miles from the concert venue.

A rare poster of The Beatles, which was used to promote a show at Liverpool’s Cavern Club has fetched £27,500 at auction. London auction house Christies said that it was the earliest Beatles poster they had ever been offered, reports whatsellsbest.com. According to the listing, the poster had been hand-painted specifically for the lunchtime concert, which took place on November 30, 1962.

Former REM singer Michael Stipe has put his Manhattan penthouse loft apartment up for sale, according to Wall Street Journal via Rolling Stone. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Stipe explained that this was part of his plan to reinvent himself as an artist, and that he is currently looking for a large studio space where he can work on his sculptures. "I wake up in the morning thinking of sculpture, not lyrics," he said. "Lyrics are too hard."

Ryan Adams has revealed that he will be releasing a new boxset named Live After Deaf in the near future. Adams, who released his 13th studio album Ashes & Fire last year, posted an image on his official Facebook page yesterday (June 13) of what appears to be a vinyl box set, writing: "Live After Deaf. Friday. This will not be repressed."

Dinosaur Jr are set to release their brand new album, I Bet On Sky, on September 17. Their release is their tenth studio LP since their 1985 debut and will be put out through [PIAS]. The record follows 2009's Farm. The band will be playing shows in North America over the summer and UK dates are set to be announced soon. The I Bet On Sky tracklisting is: 'Don't Pretend You Didn't Know' 'Watch The Corners' 'Almost Fare' 'Stick A Toe In' 'Rude' 'I Know It Oh So Well' 'Pierce The Morning Rain' 'What Was That' 'Recognition'

Paul Weller will release a new cover of The Beatles' "Birthday" on Monday [June 18] to help celebrate Paul McCartney's 70th birthday. Weller has recorded a cover of the Fab Four's 1968 track, which served as the opening track on the second disc of The White Album and will release it on Monday as a download single with all the proceeds going to War Child. The track will only be available for purchase on Monday.

Beastie Boys member Ad Rock is set to perform in public for the first time since the death of bandmate MCA. Ad Rock - aka Adam Horovitz - will DJ tonight (June 12) at Death by Audio in Brooklyn, New York at a fundraising event for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, reports Rolling Stone.

Film director Danny Boyle has unveiled a number of elements of this summer's Olympics opening ceremony, which he is masterminding. Paul McCartney has already revealed that he will be performing at the event in London on July 27, saying that he is "closing the opening" of London 2012.

Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan has laid into Radiohead, declaring them "pompous". The singer, whose band release their new studio album Oceania on Monday (June 18), said that Oxford band were a symbol of the current culture of "valuation" which he despises.