Smashing Pumpkins are streaming their new album, Oceania, online via iTunes. Visit iTunes.com to hear the record.
The album isn't formally released until next Monday (June 18), but can be heard in full now. The album is the seventh full-length effort of the band's career.
Oceania, which was originally due last September, will now be released on June 18 and has been described as an "album within an album" as it is part of their 44-song cycle 'Teargarden By Kaleidyscope', the first songs for which were released in 2009.
Ozzy Osbourne has spoken to NME ahead of Black Sabbath's headline slot at this weekend's Download Festival, promising their set will be "great".
The reunited metal legends will headline the metal festival's main stage - which has been named the Jim Marshall Stage in honour of the amp pioneer, who passed away earlier this year - on Sunday (June 10), after sets from the likes of Megadeth and Soundgarden.
All Tomorrow's Parties is set to return to its original venue, Pontins in Camber Sands, after Butlins in Minehead ended its contract with the festival.
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The xx have announced that their second album, released on September 10, is to be titled Coexist.
The London trio, who played six new songs at their live comeback in the capital last month, recorded the follow-up to their 2009 self-titled debut in their own London studio.
The band's Jamie Smith once again took on production duties on the album, which they began work on in early November 2011 before completing the sessions last month.
Speaking to NME, singer and guitarist Romy Madley Croft said the new songs show the evolution of the band over the past few years.
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has criticised local officials in London's Primrose Hill after they removed graffiti which featured lyrics from the band's 1993 hit single 'For Tomorrow' from a local footpath.
The lyrics, which read "And the view's so nice", were inspired by Primrose Hill and have been present on a footpath in the London area since 2000. However, last week, they removed by cleaners, leading Rowntree to hit out.
