Mick Jagger has said that he thinks Metallica are going to be "great" when they headline this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Metallica are the first metal artists to headline Glastonbury in its 44-year history, and will perform on the Saturday night.
"I've seen them live and they're going to be great," Jagger told The Sun, adding that The Rolling Stones had a "great time" headlining the event.
Ray Davies made an appearance at the Hay Festival on Tuesday, May 26.
During the interview, Davies discussed his forthcoming induction into the American Songwriters' Hall of Fame on June 12 and his ongoing relationship with the US.
According to The Telegraph Davies told the Hay Festival audience that the honour was "a big deal because it means that America has finally accepted the Kinks".
Brian May has confirmed that Queen will release an album before the end of 2014 which will feature unreleased vocals by Freddie Mercury.
May said the album is likely to be titled Queen Forever and that Mercury's vocals date back to the 1980s. He explained that he and Roger Taylor recently recorded instrumental tracks for the songs, based on original "scraps" of unreleased music.
The new issue of Uncut went on sale last Friday, with a cover story on Paul Weller and features on Bob Dylan in the 80s, Dolly Parton , Black Sabbath, Allen Toussaint, Harry Dean Stanton, Sharon Van Etten and The Shadows - a joyously eclectic mix by any standards.
Bruce Springsteen has posted a video on his YouTube channel paying tribute to servicemen who died during the Vietnam War.
The video is a performance of High Hopes' track "The Wall" recorded April 19, 2014 at Charlotte, North Carolina.
Describing the song as "a short prayer for my country", he explained it was inspired by Walter and Roy Chichon, from local New Jersey group called the Motifs.
A Pennsylvania federal judge has ordered sanctions against the attorney preparing to sue Led Zeppelin for "Stairway to Heaven," claiming that the lawyer behaved "in a flagrantly unprofessional and offensive manner" over the course of a different case.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Francis Malofiy recently attracted the judge's consternation while bringing a lawsuit against Usher and 19 other defendants for copyright infringement.
The Rolling Stones resumed their #14ONFIRE tour in Olso, Norway on Monday night.
The band played to a sold-out crowd of 23,000 at Oslo's Telenor Arena, with a show that lasted over two hours, Reuters reports. The next show will take place in Lisbon on May 29.
Keith Richards took centre-stage in Oslo to bring back the rarely played "Can’t Be Seen" from the 1989 album Steel Wheels. The song was last heard at a gig 15 years ago in 1999.
David Bowie's long-term producer Tony Visconti and Mick "Woody" Woodmansey - the only surviving member of The Spider's From Mars - will perform Bowie's third album The Man Who Sold The World, from 1970, in full. They will be joined by an ensemble of ten musicians including Spandau Ballet saxophone player Steve Norman and Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory, The Guardian reports. The event will take place at The Garage on September 17.
