Black Sabbath have confirmed that their new album '13' will be released on June 10. Scroll down to see a new behind-the-scenes clip showing the band making the album now.
Prince is rumoured to be performing at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week.
According to HitFix, the pop legend, who has released two new songs already in 2013, is rumoured to be playing live at La Zona Rosa on Saturday, March 16 in what would arguably be one of the biggest shows in the US festival's history.
Dave Grohl’s all-original soundtrack to his documentary “Sound City” is now free to stream at the NME website. ‘The Sound City Players’ – essentially David Grohl teaming with an all-star team of guests, matches Grohl with Stevie Nicks,Josh Homme, John Fogarty,Trent Reznor and Paul McCartney.
Dave Grohl debuted his new supergroup, the Sound City Players, at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday (January 18, 2013).
Grohl, who was accompanied by his Foo Fighters bandmates throughout the three-hour show, introduced a rolling castlist of rock legends to the stage to play with him as he guided the crowd through a live history of music recorded at the Sound City Studios, reports Rolling Stone.
Just finishing the Ultimate Music Guide on The Kinks while listening to Gurdjieff’s harmonium improvisations from 1949. There are, though, a bunch of interesting newer things here as well. Have a listen to the new Mark Kozelek song, for a start (he played a really compelling gig in London last Friday, incidentally, which I haven’t had a chance to write about).
Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has revealed that rockabilly artist Carl Perkins was the artist who made him first want to pick up a guitar.
Homme explained that he decided he wanted to be a musician after he saw Perkins play and found out that he had written the song "Blue Suede Shoes" for his idol Elvis Presley. Perkins - who died in 1998 - took part in the 'Million Dollar Quartet' recordings at Sun Studio in Memphis alongside Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.
