Sigur Ros have revealed their first live date in almost four years, announcing plans to play Bestival in September. The band have said on their website that more tour dates will be revealed soon, but added that this will be their only UK show of 2012.

Nick Cave, Blondie's Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell, Warren Ellis, Lydia Lunch and more are all set to appear on 'The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project - The Journey is Long' album, a tribute to the frontman of cult 1980s alt.rock band The Gun Club, who died from a brain haemorrhage in 1996.

Richard Hawley has announced full details of his new album 'Standing At The Sky's Edge'. The album, which is Hawley's first for his new label Parlophone, will come out on May 7. It contains a total of nine tracks and is the follow-up to his 2009 effort 'Truelove's Gutter'. Speaking about the album, Hawley said he wanted to make a simpler record and move away from the grander sounds of his previous albums. He said of the album: "I wanted to get away from the orchestration of my previous records and make a live album with two guitars, bass, drums and rocket noises!"

The Flaming Lips will headline this year's Parklife Weekender in Manchester.

Former Libertines man Pete Doherty has received a damages payment from the publishers of the now defunct newspaper the News Of The World after it admitted hacking his phone.

Orbital have announced that they will provide the soundtrack to forthcoming film Pusher.

A new museum dedicated to the life of Johnny Cash is set to open in Nashville later this year.

Independent record label Bella Union will celebrate their 15 birthday by hosting a day at this summer's End Of The Road festival. The label has announced that they will be staging a takeover of the festival bill on Friday August 31, and bringing acts including Beach House, Dirty Three, Midlake and Veronica Falls to the site at Larmer Tree Gardens in North Dorset.

The Jesus And Mary Chain have reformed for a US tour.

Metallica have announced that they will be putting on their own festival this summer and that Arctic Monkeys, The Gaslight Anthem and Best Coast are among the bands who they've booked to play the event.