July 23rd, 2012

High street retailers HMV have criticised the raft of big-name album releases scheduled for this coming September, when the likes of The Killers, Muse and Mumford & Sons are all due to release new records.

Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt were the surprise guests at a special concert held over the weekend in remembrance of the 77 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway last year.

The twin Reading/Leeds festivals have confirmed the line-up for this year’s BBC Introducing Stage.

Blur have launched their own dedicated app for the iPad and iPhone which will act as a companion piece for their forthcoming career retrospective ‘Blur 21: The Box‘.

E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt has apologised for comments he made on Twitter not long after Bruce Springsteen‘s Hard Rock Calling headline appearance in London’s Hyde Park was aborted by organisers.

Elbow have announced a run of UK arena dates for later this year.

Newton Faulkner is on top of the UK Record Store Album Chart for a second week with his new LP ‘Write It On Your Skin‘, while Jack White and Paul Simon have both improved on last week’s positions.

The whereabouts of the guitar which Bob Dylan famously, and controversially, used to ‘go electric’ at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is under dispute after a resident of New Jersey claimed ownership of the iconic instrument which, if proved correct, could sell for more than $1m at auction according to experts.