The Cure, The Black Keys and The Gaslight Anthem are among the bands confirmed for this summer's Reading And Leeds Festivals.

Eddie Vedder has announced that he will play his first-ever solo UK shows this July.

Arctic Monkeys have announced that they will be releasing a brand new track titled 'Electricity' later this month.

A Radiohead show in Kansas City, USA was picketed yesterday (March 11) by the Westboro Baptist Church.

Kiss are set to open their own mini-golf course in Las Vegas this week.

Bob Dylan is recording a new studio album.

Dexys Midnight Runners have posted the first track from their forthcoming new album 'One Day I'm Going To Soar' online – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen to 'Nowhere Is Home'.

Bruce Springsteen has bagged his ninth Official Number 1 album in the UK with the critically acclaimed 'Wrecking Ball'.

For various reasons. I found myself in New York the other week, and in a resiliently unhip part of Williamsburg at a bar called Don Pedro. The opportunity had come up to see one of my favourite artists of the past couple of years, a firebrand piano man called Hans Chew, whose debut solo album, “Tennessee And Other Stories”, was a surprise entry at the sharp end of Uncut’s 2010 Top 50 (Lots more on that here).

Okkervil River lifeboat sails into rockier waters...