A number of unreleased Woody Guthrie songs are to be included on a new three-disc compilation, according to Rolling Stone.
My Name Is New York pairs tracks Guthrie wrote during the 27 years he lived in the city along with informal interviews featuring Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Nora and Arlo Guthrie.
A 1964 album by Johnny Cash, Bitter Tears: Ballads Of The American Indian, has been re-recorded to mark its 50th anniversary.
The album, which was originally envisaged as a concept album to highlight the mistreatment of Native Americans, has been reinterpreted by artists including Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson.
It is hard to tell where Neil Young and what we can just about call Crazy Horse end their main set in Hyde Park, Saturday night. "Rockin' In The Free World" has spluttered to a conclusion, of sorts, and the band appear to have left the stage. Then, you notice Young remains amidst the debris, pointing agitatedly at the word printed across his new t-shirt: "EARTH".
Radiohead will begin rehearsing and recording again in September, guitarist Jonny Greenwood has confirmed.
The band are currently pursuing solo projects and enjoying a break from official band duty following the end of touring their last album, The King Of Limbs.
Speaking on Mary Anne Hobbes' BBC 6Music show on July 12, Greenwood was asked what Radiohead are up to at the moment and said, "We're going to start up in September, playing, rehearsing and recording and see how it's sounding."
Neil Young And Crazy Horse have cancelled a gig in Israel due to the "current security situation" in the country.
The band were due to perform in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park on July 17 but according to a press release, via Pitchfork, the gig will no longer take place. The statement issued claims that Young and his band will return to Israel when the country is at peace with Palestine.
Tommy Ramone has died aged 65.
His death marks the passing of the last surviving member of The Ramones.
"Tom died yesterday, July 11, at 12:15 p.m. at his home in Ridgewood, Queens," Andy Schwartz, publisher of New York Rocker magazine, said on behalf of Ramone's family. "He was in hospice care following treatment for cancer of the bile duct."
Rolling Stone confirm Ramone was 65 at the time of his death.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse have debuted a new song, "Who's Gonna Stand Up And Save The Earth?", on their current European tour dates.
The song first emerged in the set in ReykjavÃk on July 7.
You can watch the band perform the song live in Cork, Ireland last night [July 10].
The Grateful Dead have announced details of a new box set, Spring 1990 (The Other One).
The release is a companion to the sold-out Spring 1990 boxed set from 2012.
The 23-disc set covers eight complete shows, all previously unreleased, and will be available from September 9.
The collection will be limited to 9,000 individually numbered copies and is currently available for pre-order exclusively from the band's website, Dead.net.
It will also be released as an HD digital download on the same date.
