June 12th, 2012

NME magazine has issued a formal apology to Morrissey after running an interview with the former Smiths frontman in 2007 which he claimed was edited in a way to make him look racist.

Feeder, The View and We Are Augustines are amongst the latest names to be added to this year’s Reading/Leeds festival.

The Download festival already has one of its 2013 headliners signed and sealed, according to organiser Andy Copping.

Bombay Bicycle Club will join Blur at this summer’s special Hyde Park concert organised to celebrate the end of the 2012 London Olympics.

Former Guns N Roses guitarist Slash will become the first member of the rock group to receive a coveted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next month.

Garbage singer Shirley Manson has claimed the music industry is ‘a shell of what it once was’ due to it being slow to adapt to the sweeping changes within the music world during the past decade.

The Smashing Pumpkins are streaming their long delayed album ‘Oceania‘ online via iTunes.