Lindsey Buckingham has confirmed that Fleetwood Mac plan to continue releasing new material.
The recently reformed band put out their first new material in 10 years with their Extended Play EP and, in an interview with Billboard, Buckingham said it was "safe to say" that they would be releasing more new songs in the future.
New Order have announced the release of a new live album.
Live At Bestival 2012, recorded at Rob and Josie da Bank's annual bash last year, will be released on CD and download on July 8. All profits will go to the Isle Of Wight Youth Trust.
Drummer Stephen Morris said: "We played at so many festivals in 2012, and our highlights were, without doubt, the last two in the UK, Portmeirion and Bestival. Saturday night was fancy dress night, and Gillian enjoyed dressing up in her peacock head-dress.
Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney and Miles Davis came close to forming a supergroup, it has been revealed.
When Hendrix, Davis and Davis's drummer Tony Williams were planning to record an album together in 1969, backed by producer Alan Douglas, they sent a telegram to McCartney asking him to join them on bass.
The telegram, sent on October 22 1969, read: "We are recording and (sic) LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."
Best known for his work on The Beach Boys’ Smile, Parks is a student of serious music, whose flirtation with the counterculture saw him fall in with unlikely company. His first job was arranging “The Bear Necessities” for Disney’s Jungle Book, but his association with Brian Wilson led to him producing debuts by Ry Cooder and Randy Newman, as well as making idiosyncratic solo albums. As he prepares to release his new album, Songs Cycled (reviewed in this month’s Uncut, dated June 2013), we look back to July 2010’s issue, where Parks reflects on a career that’s straddled the worlds of serious music and pop, without fitting in to either. Words: Alastair McKay
The comedian Andy Kaufman is to release Andy And His Grandmother, which is being billed as the comedian's first-ever comedy record.
Kaufman, best known as one of the stars of TV series Taxi and who was played by Jim Carrey in the biopic Man In The Moon, is reported to have died in 1984. Scroll down to watch footage of Kaufman on the David Letterman show.
Courtney Love will be embarking on a solo tour under her own name next month in the United States.
Though she resurrected the Hole name to release the album Nobody's Daughter in 2010, at the end of last year she tweeted: "Hole is dead". Nobody's Daughter was the first Hole album since 1998's Celebrity Skin. Love was the only original member in the most recent incarnation of the group. She was instead backed by a band which included Micko Larkin, formerly of British indie act Larrikin Love.
A new song by The Avalanches has been revealed as part of a preview of the soundtrack to new musical version of King Kong.
The stage version of King Kong will hit Australia's Regent Theatre in Melbourne from May 28 and comes with an illustrious list of musical contributions including Guy Garvey of Elbow, Massive Attack's 3D, Justice and The Avalanches.
David Bowie's controversial new video has been branded "juvenile" by a former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The singer plays a Christ-like figure in the video for "The Next Day", while his co-star Gary Oldman appears as a priest and Marion Cotillard is seen with stigmata wounds on her hands. The video premiered yesterday (May 8) and was briefly banned from YouTube before being reinstated later in the day.
