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Pink Floyd have released more details about their new album, The Endless River. Following yesterday's revelations that the band are to release their first studio album in 20 years, the band have issued a brief statement.

Cabaret Voltaire are set to play their first gig in 20 years at Berlin's Atonal Festival next month. According to the festival's website: "Berlin Atonal is delighted to announce that it will host the very first Cabaret Voltaire live performance in over 20 years. Cabaret Voltaire’s blend of dance music, techno, dub, house and experimentalism made them, without a doubt, one of the most influential acts of the last 40 years."

Prince appeared as a special guest during Nile Rodgers' set at the Essence Music Festival on Friday [July 4]. The pair collaborated on a cover of David Bowie's "Let's Dance", which Rodgers co-produced. You can watch fan footage below. Prince was scheduled to appear at the New Orleans festival in his own right, but appeared unbilled on stage during Rodgers' set for the Bowie cover.

Pink Floyd are set to release a new album, called The Endless River, in October. News of the LP came via the Twitter account of Polly Samson - partner of David Gilmour. The author said that the new album would be based on 1994 sessions with the band's Richard Wright, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 65.

The first trailer for Jimi: All Is By My Side, the Jimi Hendrix film starring Outkast's Andre 3000, has been revealed. Click below to watch it. Scripted and directed by 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley, Jimi: All Is By My Side tells the story of Jimi Hendrix's life throughout 1966 and 1967, a period in which he moved to London, formed the Experience and played a career-making set at California's Monterey Pop Festival, which is where the film ends.

Annik Honoré, the Belgian music promoter and journalist, has died aged 56, according to reports. Honoré was best known for her relationship with Ian Curtis, who she met in London in 1979. Born on October 12, 1957, in Belgium, Honoré moved to London in 1979, where she became a secretary at the Belgian Embassy.

Ringo Starr has discussed A Hard Day's Night movie on its 50th anniversary and ahead of its re-release in cinemas and on DVD. "I mean, we were in a movie, man. We were making a movie!" remembers Starr in a new interview with Billboard. "Four guys from Liverpool making a movie - it was so great. I loved it...".

Six previously unheard Nick Drake recordings are to go up for auction. The tapes have been described as being in "pristine" condition and were recorded in 1968, before the 1969 release of the folk singer's debut album Five Leaves Left. The recordings are currently owned by his friend, the singer Beverley Martyn, who was married to the late John Martyn. Speaking about the tapes to 4th July 2014

To mark their 50th anniversary, The Kinks have announced details of an extensive re-release programme covering their classic 1964-1970 catalogue. The first album in the series will be 1970’s Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One, which will be reissued on August 18.

Rough Trade are to open a record shop in Nottingham, with more stores to follow. The record label already has shops in Shoreditch and Ladbroke Grove in London - Rough Trade East and Rough Trade West - as well as in Brooklyn, New York, but they will be branching out to Nottingham's Creative Quarter this autumn, setting up what they say will be "our finest store, yet." The label tweeted news of the shop saying: "We're finally opening a new store in the UK, the first of many..."