July 17th, 2012

Alternative trio Ben Folds Five have confirmed their first studio album since 1999′s ‘The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner‘ will be released on September 18th through ImaVeePee Records/Sony Music Entertainment.

Former Jam star Paul Weller has said he wants to make a new album ‘as quickly as he can’ despite only releasing his most recent solo record, ‘Sonik Kicks‘, last March.

The Modfather was speaking to the Daily Star tabloid at last weekend’s Latitude festival, and revealed his marriage to Hannah Andrew in October 2010 has led to a purple patch of songwriting based around the theme of love, which he hopes to build into another LP as soon as possible.

“Love has always inspired me but I’m writing even more love songs than usual at the moment,” he said.

“Love is the main theme of my new lyrics and I’ve got an itchy feeling that I want to make a new album as quickly as I can.”

“The last two records, I’d make it up in the studio on the spot from tiny scraps of ideas,” he continued. “That’s been really liberating but if I kept doing that it’d become a formula too. So for my next album I’m totally open minded and I might go back to writing traditional songs.”

The Killers will warm-up for their V Festival headline appearance with a one-off UK date next month.

Manic Street Preachers have revealed they will be unable to appear at the London Olympic Games’ closing ceremony next month after a list of acts apparently drawn up by organisers was leaked to the media yesterday (July 16th).

Biffy Clyro have been added to this year’s month-long iTunes festival.

Bob Dylan will release his 35th studio album ‘Tempest‘ in September, the legendary songwriter has confirmed.

RIP Jon Lord

The xx have unveiled the full tracklist and artwork (left) for their upcoming second album ‘Coexist‘.

The music world has been paying tribute to Deep Purple co-founder Jon Lord, who passed away yesterday (July 16th) at the age of 71.