John Cale is to showcase a new work at London’s Barbican Theatre in September.

The musician’s new “audio-visual collaboration” is called LOOP@@60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra.

According to a report in London’s Evening Standard, the work will use flying drones to carry speakers to project sound, as well as making mechanical noises as they hover over the audience.

The project has been devised by Cale along with architect Liam Young.

Cale has said he aims to free the drones from their usual associations with surveillance and military uses to make them “choreographed, disembodied instruments which take flight in the auditorium to create a profoundly immersive live music performance”, according to the Barbican.

The performances take place on Friday, 12 and Saturday 13, September 2014 at 8pm. Tickets cost between £20 – 25.

You can find more information here.

With CSNY‘s 1974 tour box set due for release in the UK and Europe on July 7, Graham Nash has revealed that they might release another archival project.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Nash said: “I’m toying with the idea of redoing the Deja Vu album. When we made the album we were restricted by the technicalities of how many minutes you can get onto a side of vinyl without having to compress everything. It meant we had to fade everything out.”

Nash continued, “We recently did a mix of one of David’s songs that went all the way through from beginning to end. I thought to myself, ‘I’d like to hear ‘Carry On’ without it fading.’ I want it to go all the way to the end when Dallas [Taylor] put his drumsticks down. I want to hear the jam we did at the end of ‘Everybody I Love You‘. I might talk to the boys about doing the entire Deja Vu without fading any of the songs.”

Nash also said they have professionally filmed footage from the CSNY shows at New York’s Fillmore East in March, 1970. “That’s an entire other project,” he told Rolling Stone. “Those shows we did at the Fillmore East were absolutely the best shows we ever did in our lives and that’s all been filmed. It’s just a question of whether we have the time and desire to put them out.”

You can watch the trailer for CSNY 1974 here.

Daft Punk are to be the subject of a new TV documentary next year.

French subscription channel Canal Plus have commissioned BBC Worldwide Production France to make a one-hour film about the famously elusive electro duo. It will air in 2015.

Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis says she hopes the placement of Robert Plant and Jack White in consecutive slots on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday might lead to the two appearing together for a one-off collaboration.

Plant plays at 5.30pm on the festival’s main stage and White plays at 7.30pm, before Metallica perform their headline slot.

Asked if there was a reason for their consecutive slots, Eavis told NME: “It was quite an exciting moment when we thought let’s put them next to each other. I don’t think they are going to do anything together – but you never know.”

Eavis also said booking Jack White was a coup for the festival. “Having Jack White is a big deal for us as obviously he’s not doing any other British festivals,” she said. “He’s got a great history here. He’s a proper Glastonbury-goer, he’s not like in-and-out. He gets totally stuck in.”

White will return to the UK this autumn for a three date arena tour, playing Leeds First Direct Arena on November 17, Glasgow SSE Hydro on November 18 and London O2 Arena on November 19.

Jack White plays:

London Eventim Apollo (July 3)

London O2 Arena (19)

Morrissey will release a new concert DVD in September.

Introducing Morrissey will be available from September 8, and will feature footage from his 1995 tour in support of Vauxhall And I.

It follows on from the recent 20th anniversary re-release of that album, and will contain footage recorded over two nights at Sheffield’s City Hall and Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. The gigs took place on February 7 and 8.

The set features six songs from Vauxhall And I, including UK top 10 “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get”, three from Your Arsenal, as well as non-album single “Boxers” and B-side “Have-A-Go Merchant”. The fan-favourite “Jack The Ripper” and a cover of Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini’s “Moon River” also appear.

Morrissey will release his 10th solo album World Peace Is None Of Your Business on July 15.

He recently cancelled a number of tour dates in the United States after being struck down with illness. The cancellation of a show in Atlanta, Georgia at the beginning of June marked the fourth time Morrissey has pulled out of a show in Atlanta since December 2012. He cancelled the first show after his mother fell ill and subsequently postponed the date twice in 2013 through his own ill health.

Introducing Morrissey tracklisting:

‘Billy Budd’

‘Have-A-Go Merchant’

‘Spring-Heeled Jim’

‘You’re The One For Me, Fatty’

‘The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get’

‘Whatever Happens, I Love You’

‘We’ll Let You Know’

‘Jack The Ripper’

‘Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself’

‘The National Front Disco’

‘Moon River’

‘Hold On To Your Friends’

‘Boxers’

‘Now My Heart Is Full’

‘Speedway’

Nashville’s RCA Studio A is under threat, according to current tenant of the Music Row building, Ben Folds.

In an open letter to the city of Nashville in The Tennessean, current tenant of the Music Row building Ben Folds says the building is to be sold to a Brentwood development company. In the letter, Folds – who took over the studio’s lease 12 years ago – said he is unaware of the developer’s future plans for the building.

Folds letter began: “Last week, on the day that would have been [former RCA executive] Chet Atkins’ 90th birthday (June 20, 1924), my office received news that the historic RCA Building on Music Row is set to be sold. This building, with the historic Studio A as its centerpiece, was Atkins’ and Owen Bradley’s vision and baby, and had become home to the largest classic recording space in Nashville. Word is that the prospective buyer is a Brentwood TN-based commercial development company called Bravo Development owned and operated by Tim Reynolds. We don’t know what this will mean to the future of the building.”

Folds goes on to say, “Most of us know about Studio B. Studio A was its grander younger sibling, erected by Atkins when he became an RCA executive. The result was an orchestral room built to record strings for Elvis Presley and to entice international stars to record in one of these four Putnam-designed RCA spaces in the world. The other three RCA studios of the same dimensions – built in LA, Chicago and New York – have long since been shut down. I can’t tell you how many engineers, producers and musicians have walked into this space to share their stories of the great classic recorded music made here that put Nashville on the map. I’ve heard tales of audio engineers who would roller skate around the room waiting for Elvis to show up at some point in the weeks he booked, stories about how Eddy Arnold recording one of the first sessions in the room and one of the songs was ‘Make The World Go Away’, Dolly Parton (Jolene) and The Monkees recorded here, and so on.”

Jack White will play a special session for BBC Radio 1 next week.

While will appear on Zane Lowe’s show on Wednesday July 2, for a live performance from Maida Vale Studios, which will be broadcast from 7-9pm. The session will come after his appearance at Glastonbury this weekend and ahead of his sold out show at London’s Eventim Apollo on July 3.

White will return to the UK this autumn for a three date arena tour, playing Leeds First Direct Arena on November 17, Glasgow SSE Hydro on November 18 and London O2 Arena on November 19.

Jack White recently released his second solo album Lazaretto, which broke records for vinyl sales in America.

Jack White plays:

London Eventim Apollo (July 3)

Leeds First Direct Arena (November 17)

Glasgow SSE Hydro (18)

London O2 Arena (19)

Bruce Springsteen has commented on claims that Uruguayan footballer on Luis Suarez bit Italian player Giorgio Chiellini during a World Cup match on June 24.

“Biting has no place in sports,” said Springsteen to a reporter from TMZ who quizzed him about the incident. “What are the rules about biting in the World Cup?” he asked. “There probably should be one.”

When asked if he would be following in Bon Jovi‘s footsteps and owning or creating a sports team himself, he commented: “No. Rock and roll is hard enough.”

An online museum of Bruce Springsteen memorabilia will launch this month to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the singer’s record Born In The USA. BlindedByTheLight.com will feature over 300 objects, ranging from concert posters to handwritten lyrics – with more items to be added in the future.

Paul McCartney has released a video statement, telling fans “I feel great” in the wake of his recent illness.

“Everybody’s been asking how I’m feeling – I feel great, thank you very much for asking… feeling great, rocking and rolling”, said McCartney in the video, which you can watch below.

McCartney was recently struck down by a virus which saw him hospitalised in Tokyo, Japan. He subsequently postponed a series of shows in Lubbock, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Nashville and Louisville on his ‘Out There’ tour, which have now been rearranged for October.

Ringo Starr also recently offered a health update on Paul McCartney. Speaking to Access Hollywood, Starr confirmed that his Beatles bandmate was recovering at home having been discharged from hospital. “I spoke to him in the hospital,” said Starr. “He picked up and said ‘hi.’ He’s doing OK. He was in hospital but now he’s out and getting fit and ready to rock. He’s doing good. I text him and he texts me back.”

A draft of Bob Dylan‘s song “Like A Rolling Stone” has broken the record for the most expensive lyric manuscript ever sold.

The working draft of the song, written in Bob Dylan’s own handwriting, was sold by Sotheby’s for $2.045 million (£1.204 million) to a private, unidentified buyer who is reported to be a longtime California fan of the folk singer. The auction house said that it was “the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem.” The draft was written on paper from the Roger Smith Hotel in Washington, D.C. and features doodles of a hat, a bird and an animal with antlers, writes the Hollywood Reporter.

The previous holder of the title of the most expensive lyric sheet was John Lennon’s handwritten “A Day In The Life” draft, which sold for $1.2 million (£706,980) in 2010.

“Like A Rolling Stone” features on Dylan’s 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited.

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson has said that “Punk was rubbish”.

The singer made the comments to The Guardian in an interview conducted by fellow Sonisphere line-up addition Frank Turner, saying that the closest the “art establishment” ever came to embracing metal was through punk. “The reason they embraced punk was because it was rubbish and the reason they embraced rubbish was because they could control it,” said Dickinson.

He continued: “They could say: “Oh yeah, we’re punk so we can sneer at everybody. We can’t play our fucking instruments, but that means we can make out that this whole thing is some enormous performance art.” Half the kids that were in punk bands were laughing at the art establishment, going: “What a fucking bunch of tosspots. Thanks very much, give us the money and we’ll fuck off and stick it up our nose and shag birds.” But what they’d really love to be doing is being in a heavy metal band surrounded by porn stars.”

Dickinson also recently hit out at Glastonbury festival for being too “middle class”. The singer said his band have no intention of playing the Worthy Farm bash, which for the first time in its history will see a heavy metal band headline this year when Metallica play on Saturday night (June 28).

“In the days when Glasto was an alternative festival it was quite interesting,” he said (via The Telegraph). “Now it’s the most bourgeois thing on the planet. Anywhere Gwyneth Paltrow [the actress] goes and you can live in an air-conditioned yurt is not for me.”

Dickinson added that he was glad Iron Maiden were playing rock festival Sonisphere instead. “We’ll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink lots of beer and have fun,” he said.