George Clinton and Sly Stone have collaborated on a new single, "The Naz".
The track, which tells the story of Jesus Christ, is available as a digital download here.
Credited to Funkadelic Featuring Sly Stone, "The Naz" is Stone's first material with Clinton to be officially released since Stone appeared on Funkadelic's 1981 album, The Electric Spanking Of War Babies.
Bob Dylan is to team up with Wilco and My Morning Jacket for a run of 26 dates in North America.
The tour - which will be called the Americanarama Festival of Music - will also feature additional artists the Richard Thompson Electric Trio and Ryan Bingham at select venues.
The dates begin on June 26 in West Palm Beach, Florida taking in Nashville, Chicago and Denver before coming to a close in Mountain View, California on August 4.
Paul Weller teamed up with Irish newcomers The Strypes for a one-off performance at London's Rough Trade East last night (April 20th) as part of the shop's Record Store Day celebrations.
Headlining the shop's day of in-store gigs, which also saw performances from the likes of Frank Turner, King Midas Sound and a separate set from The Strypes themselves, Weller enlisted guitarist Josh McClorey and bass player Pete O'Hanlon as well as Miles Kane's drummer Jay Sharrock to join him for a thirty minute set.
David Bowie has "another album in the pipeline", according to Noel Gallagher.
Gallagher made the revelation during an interview with Absolute Radio for Bowie Part 3 – Let’s Dance To The Next Day (1980-2013), which was broadcast last night (April 21).
He said: "According to people I've spoken to, there’s another album in the pipeline. There was, like, 29 songs or something."
John Cusack is set to portray The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson in a new biopic.
The actor is in talks to take the lead in Love And War, playing Wilson in later life. There Will Be Blood actor Paul Dano has already signed up to portray him as a young man, according to The Wrap.
Frank Zappa's 1974 TV special, A Token Of His Extreme, is to be released officially for the first time on June 3 via Eagle Rock.
The show, which was recorded on August 27, 1974 at KCET in Hollywood, featured Zappa alongside George Duke (keyboards, finger cymbals, tambourine, vocals), Napoleon Murphy Brock (sax, vocals), Ruth Underwood (percussion), Tom Fowler (bass) and Chester Thompson (drums).
A full-length version of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" can now be downloaded on iTunes.
A one-minute-long version of the track, featuring Pharrell on vocals and Chic's Nile Rodgers on guitar, debuted on a commercial screened at last weekend's Coachella festival, and then during the latest episode of US TV show Saturday Night Live, broadcast on April 13.
