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Queen have been confirmed as headliners for this year’s Sonisphere festival, and will be fronted by former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert, according to reports today.

Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has appeared to rule out the possibility of a new album accompanying their reunion plans.

After waiting three years for the follow up to 2008 debut ‘For Emma, Forever Ago‘, Bon Iver fans could be in for another long vigil after the band’s principal member Justin Vernon revealed he doesn’t have any songs written for a new album.

Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward has threatened to withdraw from the legendary band’s forthcoming reunion as he is unhappy with terms of the contract he has been offered.

Coldplay have premiered the video for ‘Charlie Brown‘, the latest single to be taken from their UK number one album ‘Mylo Xyloto‘ which can be viewed below.

Bruce Springsteen will perform at this month’s Grammy Awards, it has been confirmed.

A set of urinals inspired by The Rolling Stones‘ iconic logo, which have been installed in a German museum, have been criticised by feminist campaign groups who say they are ‘discrimination against women’, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Leonard Cohen knows that’s a very sneaky title to use at this stage of his career. Offering us the knife and showing us where best to stab him in the back, you might expect most who hear this album to proffer an embarrassed “Oh no, not at all Len, it’s dynamic and exciting, what are you talking about?”

He chose the title. He knows what kind of music he’s made, and beating us to saying it aloud doesn’t make it any less true. So do not expect dynamic or exciting ideas here. Now you know that, the next few paragraphs should go a little easier. Actually, this is only his twelfth studio album. Strange to realise that of a singer/songwriter who’s been doing this since the mid ‘60s.

Less strange is the realisation that these songs tip Cohen’s singer/poet persona very much in the latter’s favour. He’s not singing so much as he is speaking lyrically. Like Dylan or Waits, a lifetime of smoking and hard living has eroded the man’s voice away into a sort of rumbling, raspy croak. Cohen never pretended to be a star vocalist, but that’s just fine by us. He’s 78 years old, and there’s more character and depth in his crackly whisper than half the warbly singers sitting at the toppermost of the poppermost.

Damon Albarn will take his Doctor Dee opera to Honeyfest for a headline appearance this year.