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Swans are set to release a new album, featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O and Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low, on August 27. The Seer, the new album from Michael Gira's reunited New York noise-rock troupe, runs for around two hours, and also features guests including Mercury Rev's Grasshopper, Akron/Family and "honorary Swan" Bill Rieflin. Karen O sings lead vocal on "Song For A Warrior", while Parker and Sparhawk feature as co-vocalists on opener "Lunacy".

Mogwai have been confirmed as the final headliner of this year's Green Man festival. The Scottish rockers, who released their seventh studio album 'Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will' in 2011, join Feist and Van Morrison in headlining the event, which takes place in Wales' Brecon Beacons from August 17-19. Also newly added to the line-up are Dexys, Cate Le Bon, Lower Dens, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Crybaby, Paul Thomas Saunders, Stuff, Withered Hand and King Charles.

A private funeral for singer Donna Summer was held yesterday (May 23) in Nashville, Tennessee.

James Blake and Mr Scruff are among the new additions to this year's Green Man festival.

Mystery Jets, Marcus Foster and Fionn Regan are all confirmed to perform at this year's Bushstock festival. The event will take place on June 2 in the Shepherds Bush area of London and is being put on by Communion Records, the label part run by Mumford And Sons' Ben Lovett (pictured far right).

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Donna Summer, who was best known for a string of hit singles including "I Feel Love" and "Hot Stuff", died today aged 63. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she released seventeen studio albums during a career which lasted over 30 years. Reports claim that she had been working on a new LP shortly before she passed away in Florida following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Legendary New York punk club CBGB could be set to reopen in a new location in the city. The nightspot, which closed in 2006, has been bought by a group of investors who are planning to set up a new annual festival and have also been eyeing up potential new sites, reports the New York Times. The four-day festival is due to kick off on July 5 and take place at around 30 venues across the city, showcasing 300 bands.

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon has paid tribute to Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch and said he was a "great rapper and lyricist". The bassist has shared her memories of Yauch, who passed away on Friday (May 4) after a three-year battle with cancer, with NME and hailed the rapper's lyrics. She said: "He told me once that he really liked the lyrics to 'Bull In The Heather'. It surprised me that he had even listened to it. It meant a lot to me that he went out of his way to tell me that, coming from such a great rapper and lyricist."

Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch died aged 47 yesterday (May 4).