Yoko Ono is to release her new album, Take Me To The Land Of Hell, in September.
It is her first album since Between My Head And The Sky, four years ago.
The album features contributions from Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and Roots' drummer QuestLove alongside remixes by Beastie Boys Mike D and Ad-Rock. It has been produced by Ono with Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda.
Arctic Monkeys have announced details of a UK tour to take place this October.
The band, who release new album AM in September, will play eight dates including a homecoming gig at Sheffield's Motorpoint Arena. Starting in Newcastle at the Metro Radio Arena on October 22, the tour will then visit Manchester, London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Birmingham and Glasgow before ending with the Sheffield gig on November 2. The Strypes will support on all dates.
Pixies have released a new song, Bagboy".
It is the band's first new material since "Bam Thwok", from June 2004.
Scroll down to hear "Bagboy". The track is available to stream now and can also be downloaded for free from the band's website.
It is also the first release from the band since Kim Deal announced her departure from Pixies last month.
Scott Walker had “a horror of being compared to Sinatra or Tom Jones” in the '60s, his publicist reveals in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now).
Glastonbury properly begins today (Friday, June 28), with headline performances from Arctic Monkeys and Portishead – and Uncut will be blogging from the festival all weekend.
Reissues of Ian Dury’s Lord Upminster and 4,000 Weeks Holiday albums are reviewed in the latest Uncut (dated July 2013, and out now) – and a new exhibition, Ian Dury – More Than Fair: Paintings, Drawings and Artworks 1961-1972, takes place at the Royal College Of Art, Kensington, from July 23-September 1, 2013.
Bob Dylan is among the artists appearing on the soundtrack for Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from the Coen Brothers.
The film, which is set in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and stars Oscar Isaac as an upcoming folk singer, contains contemporaneous music by Dylan and Dave Van Ronk alongside material performed by members of the cast, including Isaac and Justin Timberlake, and Marcus Mumford.
Earl Slick says there are no secret plans in place for David Bowie to tour before the end of the year.
The guitarist, who has played with Bowie since 1974, says there's no conspiracy about live dates, there is just nothing scheduled.
Speaking to NME, he said: "I get asked all the time. And I say 'Do you know something I don't know?' Really though, there's no big secret we're keeping from everyone. There'll definitely be no shows this year, I can tell you that. There's no conspiracy about a tour, there just is no tour, and that's all I got for you.
Body/Head, the electric guitar duo comprised of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange), have announced details of their debut album, Coming Apart.
The album will be released as a double LP, CD and digital album by Matador Records on September 16.
Body/Head began as a largely instrumental project after Gordon announced her separation from Thurston Moore in late 2011.
The Rolling Stones' Mick Taylor and The Black Keys' Patrick Carney appear together on a new track by Stephen Dale Petit called "Holla".
Petit, a London-based American blues singer, enlisted the help of his famous pals to record the song, which is taken from his forthcoming album Cracking The Code, which also features a track with Dr. John.
Speaking about the collaboration, Stephen Dale Petit said: "It’s been mind blowing to get to work with the best musicians & producers in the world, the crème de la crème. I can't wait for people to hear it."
