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Dexys Midnight Runners - now known simply as Dexys are set to release their first album in 27 years. 'One Day I'm Going To Soar' will be out on June 4 and makes for their first release since 1985's 'Don't Stand Me Down'. The band announced the news via their Facebook page.

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders has remixed Paul Weller's comeback single 'That Dangerous Age'.

Bruce Springsteen has posted the video for his current single 'We Take Care of Our Own' online.

Paul McCartney has revealed that he and John Lennon both had the exact same dream about achieving worldwide success with The Beatles.

The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach has admitted that it used to "piss" him off that his band weren't bigger.

Brendan Benson has announced a UK and Ireland tour for this May. The Raconteurs man will play five shows on the trek, which begin at Portsmouth's Wedgewood Rooms on May 21 and end at Glasgow's Oran Mor on May 25. The run also includes shows in London, Manchester and Dublin, with Young Hines providing support on all the dates. Benson will release his new solo album 'What Kind Of World' on April 30. The album is the follow-up to his 2009 effort 'My Old, Familiar Friend' and has been recorded at Welcome To 1979 Studios in Nashville.

On the generally acclaimed Let England Shake, Harvey gave her music a bony, volkish edge, flaying it back to strummed autoharp, electric guitar and crude drums, mongrelising it with awkwardy intrusive sampling of Middle Eastern singers, dub interjections and huntsmen’s horns. Seamus Murphy’s cinematography complements this approach perfectly: not storyboarded, but collaged from various journeys around the island made during 2011, from the remotest hedgerows to the heart of London.

Rocketjuice And The Moon, the new project featuring Damon Albarn, Flea and Tony Allen, will release their debut album on March 26.

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood has revealed that he turned down the chance to join Led Zeppelin.