Stevie Nicks has launched a competition that invites fans to design a shawl for the singer.
According to Rolling Stone, the competition winner will receive $2,000 (£1198) to produce a trademark shawl for Nicks. The winner will also receive a professional photograph of the singer modelling the piece and will be featured on her website and social media outlets.
A blimp decorated in the Aphex Twin logo was spotted hovering above the Oval Space in Hackney on Saturday (August 16).
The airship also featured the digits "2014". Now, in a further development, the same logo has been spotted by fans outside Radio City Hall in New York.
Paul McCartney has revealed a previously unseen photograph from The Beatles' last ever gig.
The image, seen above, is one of a number shown on the big screen as McCartney performed live at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park last night (August 14) at a gig dubbed "Farewell To Candlestick: The Final Concert". The venue is the same one The Beatles performed at on August 29, 1966 in what would prove to be their last ticketed public performance together.
Rick Parfitt will miss his first ever Status Quo gig due to illness.
The band recently cancelled six concerts on their European tour because 65-year-old Parfitt was rushed to hospital. Parfitt had a quadruple heart bypass in 1997 after doctors said he was in danger of dying as a result of his lifestyle. After surgery, Parfitt said he was not planning on becoming a "born-again Christian" and would still have the "odd pint".
Belle & Sebastian have announced plans to reissue the majority of their back catalogue on vinyl.
The reissues will be given an umbrella title, It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career, a reference to their single The Boy With The Arab Strap.
The list of albums to be reissued on vinyl are:
Tigermilk
If You’re Feeling Sinister
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
Dear Catastrophe Waitress (with alternate art)
Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
The Life Pursuit
The BBC Sessions
Gruff Rhys has been shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize for his book American Interior.
Rhys has been nominated alongside five other writers for a £5,000 award for his writings, part of a multimedia project which included an album and a film.
The prize, now in its second year, will be judged by comedian, actor and musician Julian Barratt, poet John Burnside, artist Sarah Lucas and novelist Benjamin Myers, who won the award last year for his book, Pig Iron.
Talks that could see albums across the globe released on the same day each week are underway, with industry sources confirming that the procedure is likely to begin in July 2015.
As it stands, albums have a different street date in different regions. The UK releases on a Monday, whereas records hit shelves on a Tuesday in the US and a Friday in Australia. It has now been proposed that there be a global street date, meaning that albums would be released on a standardized day each week in all parts of the world.
Neil Young is hoping to raise at least $2.5m on the Crowdfunder site for his PonoMusic venture by offering shares in the company.
In March 2014, Young raised $6.2m on crowdfunding website Kickstarter for PonoMusic.
Young's new campaign will allow public to invest in the high-end music player for as little as $5,000.
