August, 2012

Two Door Cinema Club will play three acoustic gigs in London, Birmingham and Manchester next week to mark the release of their second studio album ‘Beacon‘.

London folksters Dry The River will begin recording a new album before the year is out, the band have told BBC Newsbeat.

Next month’s Bestival event on the Isle Of Wight will be screened live on YouTube, offering fans without tickets the opportunity to watch uninterrupted coverage of the festival’s Main and Big Top stages between September 7th-9th.

Blur bassist Alex James has said he would be interested in working with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and legendary US musician Nile Rodgers, who have themselves begun collaborating over recent months.

Seminal favourites by the likes of The Beatles and the Sex Pistols are amongst the tracks picked by BBC Radio 2 to showcase ‘the soundtrack to British culture’ for a new series which will air on the station next year.

The new documentary chronicling The Rolling Stones‘ 50 years together as a band will be entitled Crossfire Hurricane and is to be released to cinemas in October.

Bob Dylan has given a full premiere to his new video ‘Duquesne Whistle‘, which is now available on YouTube and can be viewed below.

Flaming Lips team up with Dresden Dolls vocalist Amanda Palmer, who appears nude in a bathtub for the new NSFW video.

The Killers have taken a slightly more pragmatic approach to the news that they have a keen fan in Mitt Romney when compared to the response of Rage Against The Machine after similar professions of love from Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan were made earlier this month.

Former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman is to be awarded with the first Prog God Award at next month’s Progressive Music Awards.