Bruce Springsteen continued his current run of live cover versions by playing Van Halen's "Jump".
Springsteen opened his set at the March Madness Music Festival in Dallas on April 6 with a cover of the 1984 hit. Click below to watch.
Steven Van Zandt was not at the show, leading to online speculation about his absence. His wife, Maureen, joked on Twitter, that he is "replacing Harry Styles from One Direction for a bit."
Jack White has announced a series of dates across North America and Europe to take place this summer.
The singer/guitarist will be separately supported by fellow Third Man artist Kelley Stoltz and soul singer-songwriter Benjamin Booker.
Following a one-off date for Record Store Day in Nashville, where White hopes to record and press a 7" in record time, the tour begins in full on May 29 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Anyone who happened to catch Graham Norton's show on Friday night might have been surprised to see Richard Ayoade sharing the sofa with Kylie Minogue, Russell Crowe and Cameron Diaz: chat show royalty, and Ayoade's presence among them suggests things have turned out very well for the bloke from The IT Crowd.
Patti Smith has paid further tribute to Lou Reed in a new interview with Mary Anne Hobbs.
Speaking on the DJ's BBC 6Music show, the punk poet opened up about how she heard of Reed's death and her last moments with him.
John Lydon is set to star in a new production of the stage musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.
Lydon will appear as King Herod in the touring production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical, alongside Incubus' Brandon Boyd as Judas and Destiny Child's Michelle Williams as Mary. 'N Sync's JC Chasez will play Pontius Pilate. The 50 date tour will start on June 9 in New Orleans, reports AP .
Sales of Fleetwood Mac's music have surged thanks to Christine McVie's announcement she was rejoining the band.
Nielsen SoundScan, who monitor album sales in the US, have reported a 33 per cent rise in sales of Fleetwood Mac album following the band's appearance on NBC's Today show on March 27 and a number of high-profile press interviews. The group's catalogue of albums sold 10,000 copies during the last week of March, up from the 8,000 in the previous week.
To be a fan of Gillian Welch, as many Uncut readers will appreciate, requires an uncommon degree of faithfulness and patience. In 18 years, she has released just five albums; given that the gap between the last one (2011’s The Harrow And The Harvest) and its predecessor (2003’s Soul Journey) ran to eight years, a follow-up may still be some way off.
