The Cure's Robert Smith has said the band feel as if they are coming "full circle" by headlining this year's Reading and Leeds Festival, despite having no new album to promote.

A musical based on The Flaming Lips' 2002 album 'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots' is set to open in Los Angeles later this year.

Hot Chip have debuted 'Flutes', the first single from their new album 'In Our Heads', online. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to hear the track.

The Hold Steady's Craig Finn has teamed up with Signature Brew to launch his own brand of beer called 'Clear Heart'. To see the singer sampling the brew, click on the video below.

News from Phil King on the Jesus And Mary Chain tour in Texas, yesterday, that Ty Segall was due to support them at a show. A pretty cool gig, one would imagine, and a useful prompt to remind me to write something about the latest release from Segall, especially since he’s promising – and it would be rash to disbelieve him, given his fecundity in the past two or three years – another couple of albums in the next few months.

Antony Hegarty is set to curate this year's Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre.

Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood has said he doesn't believe the band will ever tour together again.

REM guitarist Peter Buck is currently working on his debut solo album, according to his friend Scott McCaughey.

The follow-up to Hadestown seals Mitchell’s pre-eminence...

I can’t believe it, either, but we seem to be already at that point in the month when I start by telling you that we’re hard at work finishing off the next issue of Uncut, buffeted by deadlines, flinching at the hungry caw of our steely-eyed taskmasters on the production desk, greedy for final copy as the last pages are put together to be sent to the printers.