The Rolling Stones have been confirmed as headlining the Saturday night of this year’s Glastonbury festival.

A post on the official Glastonbury festivals website appeared at 7pm today confirming the line-up of this year’s festival.

Arctic Monkeys will headline on Friday and Mumford & Sons will headline on Sunday. Other bands playing include Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Portishead, Alabama Shakes, Elvis Costello, Primal Scream, Vampire Weekend, Dinosaur Jr and Cat Power.

Immediately after the announcement was made, Mick Jagger Tweeted: “Can’t wait to play Glastonbury. I have my wellies and my yurt.”

This year’s Glastonbury festival is to be live streamed for the first time with viewers able to watch different stages as they happen. The BBC will use the latest digital technology to allow viewers to choose from simultaneous live streams from all the major stages.

The Glastonbury line-up as it stands is:

Pyramid stage

Arctic Monkeys; the Rolling Stones; Mumford & Sons; Dizzee Rascal; Primal Scream; Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds; Vampire Weekend; Elvis Costello; the Vaccines; Kenny Rogers; Ben Howard; Rita Ora; Rufus Wainwright; Jake Bugg; Professor Green; Laura Mvula; Billy Bragg; Rokia Traoré; First Aid Kit; Haim

Other stage

Portishead; Chase & Status; The xx; Foals; Example; The Smashing Pumpkins; Alt-J; Two Door Cinema Club; PiL; Tame Impala; Alabama Shakes; Editors; Azealia Banks; Of Monsters and Men; the Lumineers; Enter Shikari; I Am Kloot; The Hives; Amanda Palmer

West Holts stage

Chic featuring Nile Rogers; Public Enemy; The Weeknd; Seasick Steve; Major Lazer; Tom Tom Club; Maverick Sabre; Lianne Les Havas; Toro Y Moi; Ondatrópica; Sérgio Mendes; Dub Colossus; the Orb & Indigenous People; The Child of Lov; Alice Russell; Goat; Badbadnotgood; The Bombay Royale; Matthew E. White; Riot Jazz

The Park stage

Cat Power; The Horrors; Fuck Buttons; Django Django; Rodriguez; Dinosaur Jr; Calexico; Steve Mason; Palma Violets; Devendra Banhart; Michael Kiwanuka; Solange; King Krule; Stealing Sheep; Tim Burgess; Melody’s Echo Chamber; Ed Harcourt; Half Moon Run; Josephine; Teleman

John Peel stage

Crystal Castles; Hurts; Phoenix; Bastille; Everything Everything; James Blake; Johnny Marr; The Courteeners; Jessie Ware; Tyler, The Creator; Frightened Rabbit; Miles Kane; Local Natives; The Strypes; Savages; Tom Odell; Peace; Daughter; Villagers; Toy; Jagwar Ma

Silver Hayes

Nas; Hot Natured; Disclosure; Rudimental; The Family Stone; Skream & Benga; Sub Focus; Charles Bradley; SBTRKT; Netsky; Dogblood; The Congos; The 2 Bears; Aluna George; Julio Bashmore; Wiley; TEED; Gold Panda; David Rodigan

Acoustic tent

Sinéad O’Connor; Stevie Winwood; Lucinda Williams; Glen Hansard; Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings; Gabrielle Aplin; The Proclaimers; Martha Wainwright; Seth Lakeman; KT Tunstall; Gretchen Peters; Martin Stevenson & The Daintees

Avalon stage

Ben Caplan; Beverley Knight; Crowns; Evan Dando; Gary Clark Jr.; JJ Grey & Mofro; Josh Doyle; Lucy Rose; Mad Dog Mcrea; Molotov Jukebox; Newton Faulkner; Oysterband; Penguin Café; Shooglenifty; Stornoway; The Destroyers; The Staves; The Urban Voodoo Machine; Vintage Trouble; Xavier Rudd

Poet Michael Horovitz has teamed up with Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and Paul Weller for a pair of Record Store day releases.

The quartet will appear on Horovitz’ single, “Ballade Of The Nocturnal Commune” / “Extra Time Meltdown”, which will be released by London-based vinyl-only jazz label, Gearbox Records.

Weller, Albarn and Coxon will also appear on Horovitz’ album Bankbusted Nuclear Detergent Blues, the title track of which was commissioned by Weller, who printed the text in the artwork for his 2012 album Sonik Kicks.

The tracks were recorded at Weller’s Black Barn Studio and Albarn’s Studio 13, then mixed at Studio 13.

Of his involvement, Weller said “It was my absolute pleasure to work in these recordings with Michael. Damon and Graham. I am a big fan of all three of these artists and just to be so free with all the music and ideas was a real buzz. A lot of fun and no egos in the way. Fabulous. The end results are amongst some of the best things I’ve ever worked on.”

Horovitz agreed, saying “The three of them connected with the verse and each others’ responses to my performance of [the poems] with scintillating flights of harmony dissonance and poetic improvisations, way beyond my fondest hopes.”

Gearbox will also release for the first time Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead, a jazz/poetry recording from 1962 featuring spoken word performances by Horovitz and Cream collaborator, Pete Brown, along with the Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet.

Horovitz, Albarn, Weller and Coxon performed “Ballade Of The Nocturnal Commune” at the Teenage Cancer Trust benefit concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday, March 23.

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Kings Of Leon bassist Jared Followill has confirmed the band’s new album will be out in September.

The record, the four-piece’s sixth studio effort, is finished and is currently being sequenced. Speaking in this week’s NME Followill said: “I thought we were going to make a really mature album but I’m amazed how youthful it sounds. It’s like a mix of ‘Youth & Young Manhood’ and ‘Because Of The Times‘.”

Before the album is released, Kings of Leon will headline this summer’s V festival. Taking place over the weekend of August 17-18 at Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire, the two-day event will see the band take to the main stage along with Beyoncé – which will be her only European festival appearance this year. They will also play shows in London, Manchester and Birmingham in June and July, staring at London’s O2 Arena on June 12 and 13 before playing Manchester Arena on June 24 and 25. The tour then runs to Birmingham’s LG Arena on July 9-10.

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum have released extra tickets for their David Bowie Is… retrospective exhibition.

The show, which opened last Saturday, is the fastest-selling event in the museum’s history, with 42,000 advance tickets already sold, more than double the advance sales of previous exhibitions.

The V&A have now announced that the exhibition is going to be open on Sunday nights from 7 April.

You can book tickets online at the V&A’s website.

You can read Uncut’s review of the exhibition here.

It has been confirmed that Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner will appear on the new Queens Of The Stone Age album ‘…Like Clockwork’.

The album was officially announced earlier this week with the band having signed to Matador to release the album in June. A new press release circulated by the band’s label confirms the list of guest stars appearing on the album with Turner lining up alongside the previously known guests such as Dave Grohl, Sir Elton John, Trent Reznor, Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters. Previous Queens Of The Stone Age collaborators Mark Lanegan and Nick Oliveri will also appear on the album as does James Lavelle, better known as the man behind UNKLE.

In addition to the guest stars, it has also been confirmed that the band will embark on a world tour to promote the album. A new drummer will also be revealed shortly, as the band make their live return next weekend at Lollapalooza Brazil. Dave Grohl contributed drums to ‘…Like Clockwork’, but is not thought to be touring with the Josh Homme fronted band. Joey Castillo and Jon Theodore have also recorded drum parts for the album. Hear short snippets of tracks from the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Era Vulgaris’ at QOTSA.com.

The band will be playing a number of festivals this summer, including Benicàssim in Spain, and Download in the UK.

Later…Live with Jools Holland will return on April 9 with guests including Suede and Cat Power.

The long-running music show will start its 42nd series with the first in eight half-hour live shows on BBC 2 at 10PM on Tuesday, April 9. Suede will appear to perform songs from their new album ‘Bloodsports’ while Cat Power will make a rare live appearance in the UK, playing songs from her 2012 album ‘Sun’.

Meanwhile, newcomers Laura Mvula and The Strypes will also perform. The Strypes have won over celebrity fans including Noel Gallagher and Elton John with the former Oasis guitarist among the crowd that crammed into London’s Old Blue Last on January 23 to catch the band, who have signed to Mercury. The Irish teenagers play energised takes on classic rock and R&B covers including Bo Diddley’s ‘You Can’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover’, T-Bone Walker’s ‘Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)’ and Muddy Waters’ ‘Mannish Boy’ as well as their own original material.

A longer version of Later…Live with Jools Holland will air on Friday, April 12.

Tom Morello has spoken about his recent time spent as guitarist for Bruce Springsteen, saying that it is an “honour” to play with the E Street Band.

Rage Against The Machine guitarist Morello joined the E Street Band three months ago to cover for Steven Van Zandt, who is filming his show Lilyhammer at the same time as Springsteen is touring Australia. Morello admitted to Rolling Stone that he has been tested by Springsteen’s four-hour shows. “I learned about 50 songs in three months for the tour, and every night, 90 minutes till soundcheck, Bruce will text me with seven or eight songs we’ve never played before. And then during the show, he’ll call up songs we’ve never even discussed – some I’ve never even heard!”

Morello added: “Our band plays very differently night to night. It’s not a repetition, it’s a renewal. If you’re doing it right, that’s how it feels. Every night, there’s six to eight songs I have literally about a nanosecond to prepare for. But it’s fun. Now that I know that’s the gig I’m like, ‘Let’s go!’ Make it clear – I’m not asking Bruce to stump me. I would love to play ‘Thunder Road’. But it’s been a really fun challenge.”

However, Morello was full of praise for the band, saying: “It’s been great. It’s been really an honour being on stage with one of my favourite bands – one of the greatest live bands of all time,” Morello said. “I’ve been to a lot of Bruce Springsteen shows, but I’ve never been to four consecutive ones. And every show isn’t just a different show – it’s a completely different experience.”

Bruce Springsteen and Kasabian have been confirmed as headliners at this year’s Hard Rock Calling festival. The festival, which takes place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London, runs on June 29 and 30 and will see Springsteen headline on the second night.

Lou Reed has cancelled a series of West Coast United States shows through the month of April, including two performances at the Coachella festival.

The cancelled shows were in Coachella on April 12 and 19, San Francisco on April 14, Monterrey on April 16 and April 17 in Los Angeles.

The five cancelled dates were his only listed upcoming shows.

No reason has been given for the cancellations. According to a brief statement posted on website for the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, “This show has been cancelled due to unavoidable complications.”

Reed recently made a surprise appearance at a playback celebrating his 1972 album Transformer.

Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards, who penned songs for The Jackson 5 and The Supremes, has died at the age 68.

The musician, who was suffering oesophageal cancer, died in a Washington state hospice on Sunday (March 24), according to the Hollywood Reporter. He was leader of the Motown songwriting, arranging and producing team The Corporation who’s hits included The Jackson 5 classics ‘I Want You Back’ and ‘ABC’. Richards also co-wrote ‘Love Child’ for Diana Ross And The Supremes, as well as her solo track ‘I’m Still Waiting’.

The Corporation comprised of Motown label head Berry Gordy, Alphonzo Mizell, Freddie Perren and Richards and was created in 1969. According to Michael Jackson biographer, J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Jackson 5 track ‘Mama’s Pearl’ was originally called ‘Guess Who’s Making Whoopie (With Your Girlfriend)’. But Richards had the lyrics changed to preserve the frontman’s innocent image at the time.

Richards’ final project before he died, involved mixing eight unreleased tracks by Martha Reeves And The Vandellas for the band’s 50th anniversary box set, which is due to be released on April 5.

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When I first started reading what used to be Melody Maker, in a time now shrouded not so much in what are usually called the mists of time as they are in a fog as dense as anything that might gather over Dogger Bank, I used to accept its weekly delivery in the manner of some kind of jackal, cur or otherwise fanged and ravenous critter. Which is to say I would fall upon it voraciously and devour it from cover to cover, including the Jazz Scene round-up and Folk News, which I thought were both a bit square compared to what elsewhere you could read about The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks, all of whom were by then following The Beatles into the charts, a whole new world taking shape out there.

Lurking in the hinterlands of MM back then was something called Club Calendar, whose deeply mesmerising pages advertised upcoming gigs in mostly London venues where the bands currently claiming so much of my attention could be seen regularly at clubs where reputations were being forged and tomorrow’s music was being made today. Among the places that hosted the wild new sounds of these groups were The Railway Hotel, where the Stones had started out, the Eel Pie Island Hotel, Klooks Kleek, The Scene, The 100 Club, The Flamingo and, of course, The Marquee, which was as far as I could tell was pretty much the centre of this particular universe. It was certainly somewhere I wanted desperately to be on Tuesday nights towards the end of 1964, when The Who started a residency there, their appearances advertised by the now-famous poster of Pete Townshend, Rickenbacker aloft, right arm above his head, against a black background, and in white lettering the delirious promise of MAXIMUM R&B.

How electrifying it must have been to be part of The Marquee crowd then, with The Who – and a little later Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin – kicking off in their delinquent pomp, a whole scene building around them that revolutionised British music in the 60s, an era of multiple excitements that is brilliantly recalled in the cover story Peter Watts has written for the new Uncut (on sale this Thursday, March 28), in which Pete Townshend, among other notable veterans of the era, charts The Who’s incredible early ascendency and The Marquee’s part in it as the most important venue at the time in the UK.

One of the bands who early in their career made an almost obligatory appearance at The Marquee was Cream. As befitting the first so-called supergroup, however, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were soon filling rather larger venues, especially in America where they were treated like gods. Their all-conquering momentum swept all before them for two years, until deep-rooted divisions blew them apart, but not before they’d done their bit in radically altering the contemporary musical landscape.

Also in the new issue, we visit Richmond, Virginia, where we meet Matthew E White, whose debut album, the fantastic country-soul extravaganza Big Inner, has provoked such heady excitement, say goodbye to the much-loved Kevin Ayers, talk banjos and comedy with Steve Martin, and find out about the Coen Brothers’ new film, Inside Llewyn Davis, set in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early-60s. Elsewhere, Jeff Lynne talks us through a recording career that at various time has seen him involved with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson and, of course, ELO, Eddie And The Hot Rods remember “Do Anything You Wanna Do” and Steve Earle tells us about the records that have most inspired him.

In another bumper month for album releases, we review the new records from Kurt Vile, Eric Burdon, Iggy And The Stooges, Iron And Wine, The Flaming Lips and Phoenix and re-releases from Shuggie Otis, The Breeders, Country Joe and Morrissey. My Bloody Valentine, John Grant and Wilko Johnson are meanwhile reviewed live, and David Bowie, The Clash and Gram Parsons feature in our books section.

Enjoy the issue and if you have any memories you want to share about legendary nights at the Marquee, write to me at allan_jones@ipcmedia.com.

Have a great week.

The house where George Harrison wrote “Blue Jay Way” has sold for $3.8 million (£2.5 million).

1567 Blue Jay Way Los Angeles, CA 90069 was first put on the market last April with an asking price of $4,599,000 (£3,025,657).

The “Bird Streets” of Hollywood Hills are an exclusive neighborhood overlooking the Sunset Strip. 1567 Blue Jay Way was owned by Peggy Lee’s manager, Ludwig Gerber. The song was written in August 1967 at the property, where Harrison was staying with his wife Pattie, Apple Corps exec Neil Aspinall and “Magic” Alexis Mardas.

The song, which featured on the Magical Mystery Tour EP and album, begins: “There’s a fog upon LA / And my friends have lost their way / ‘We’ll be over soon’ they said /Now they’ve lost themselves instead”.

Harrison later admitted that the song was written on just such a foggy night, waiting for Beatles publicist Derek Taylor to find his way for a visit.

Dave Davies has revealed details of his upcoming album, I Will Be Me.

The album is Davies’ sixth solo album and first since 2007’s Fractured Mindz.

According to Davies’ website, I Will Be Me has an expected release date of June 4, to coincide with Davies’ run of American dates.

According to a post on the website for the New York City Winery, where Davies will play on May 28 and 29, “Dave’s new album I Will Be Me is a return to his groundbreaking guitar sound and innovative songwriting. His classically English voice shows off a new deepness but still hits his famous high notes in this collection. Hard rocking track ‘Living In The Past‘, takes a look at obsession with retro but, ever the Mod, Dave surprises with the lyric, ‘no matter what they do or say, the future’s here to stay!'”

“He takes a look back with ‘Little Green Amp‘, a playful, punk homage to days when his jagged, blues driven sound wave ripped ahead of the British Invasion through stereos the world over. ‘Cote du Rhone (I Will Be Me)’, an uncensored look at ugliness in the world today, is as angry and biting as ever with an innovative heavy yet slide guitar tone. Soothing lyrics and sounds of Jonathan Lea’s sitar playing on ‘Healing Boy’ – show Dave’s sensitive side. In a recent radio interview he said, ‘rock music is a positive force for good.’ This hopeful and optimistic vision manifests and bridges themes personal, social and universal in I Will Be Me.”

The tracklisting for I Will Be Me is:

Little Green Amp

Cote du Rhone (I Will Be Me)

The album will be available for pre-purchase at the following shows:

May 28 and 29, New York City – New York City Winery

May 30, Shirley, Massachusetts, The Bull Run

May 31, Norfolk, Conneticut – Infinity Hall

June 1, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – Musikfest Café

June 7, San Juan Capistrano, California – The Coach House

June 9, Agoura Hills, California – The Canyon

For $10,000 (£6588), a fan of Alice Cooper can buy the chance to play a round of golf with the shock-rock legend.

The offer is part of a current Kickstarter campaign which is looking to secure funding for Uncle Alice Presents, a 12 part series of comics and a graphic novel created by Tom Sheppard and which feature Alice Cooper as the narrator and “demented, blood-soaked host”.

The campaign is looking to raise $200,000 (£131,752) by selling hard copies of the comic book and graphic novel when they have been published, as well as voicemail messages from Alice Cooper, a framed oil painting and the chance to play golf with Cooper himself.

There is only one round of golf up for grabs, and it will take place at a golf course of Cooper’s choosing in Phoenix, Arizona. It is asked that only experienced players apply.

Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson head out on the joint Masters of Madness tour of North America this June.

Phil Spector’s wife has called for a fresh appeal over his murder conviction of actress Lana Clarkson.

The move comes after Rachelle Spector saw the new David Marnet HBO dramatisation of the case. She believes some of the forensics evidence presented in the film, Phil Spector, will help her prove her husband, played by Al Pacino in the TV movie, did not pull the trigger of the gun which killed Clarkson at his Alhambra, California mansion in 2003.

She told Entertainment Tonight: “They (viewers) can clearly see by the lack of any blood on his white jacket that he wasn’t even near her when the shot was fired. There is absolutely no way he was even close to her when the shot was fired.”

In the film, which was screened in the US on Sunday (March 24), Spector’s attorney Linda Kenney Baden, portrayed by Dame Helen Mirren, suggests the producer would have had to be at least 10 feet (three meters) away from the pistol – and therefore he couldn’t have pulled the trigger. She also hints that Clarkson accidentally shot herself while playing with one of Spector’s guns. Following the screening Rachelle Spector added: “People are walking away thinking he was railroaded and is an innocent man.”

He was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009, and subsequently sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. He has appealed on a number of occasions but failed on every attempt.

Friends of Clarkson, recently protested outside a screening of HBO’s dramatisation of the event. Clarkson’s former publicist Edward Lozzi says he has seen the film and claims the narrative focuses too strongly on Spector’s defence and the suggestion that he is, in fact, innocent, with Clarkson taking her own life.

Ginger Baker has described his former Cream bandmate Jack Bruce as “a problem” in the latest issue of Uncut, out on Thursday (March 28).

Baker and Bruce take us through their two-year whirlwind, from forming the ‘supergroup’, to creating enduring classics such as “White Room” and “Sunshine Of Your Love” and touring the US, all while seemingly loathing each other from the start.

Asked whether it was a problem reuniting with Bruce in Cream after their stint together in The Graham Bond Organisation, Ginger Baker tells Uncut: “Jack’s a problem everywhere he goes. He still is.

“Liz, my wife at the time, convinced me to give Jack another chance, as it were. Something I still regret.”

Uncut’s piece on Cream also includes a look at the band’s songwriting collaborators, their 1968 Albert Hall farewell concerts and an eyewitness account from Melody Maker’s Chris Welch, who scooped the first news of Cream’s split.

We also talk to Ginger Baker about drumming, getting shot at in Nigeria and the new documentary about him, Beware Of Mr Baker.

The new issue of Uncut, dated May 2013, is out on Thursday (March 28).

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