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.

You can hear 'Machine Gun Silhouette', the B-side to Jack White's debut solo single 'Love Interruption', by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.

Trying hard to disregard the fact that one record here has possibly irritated me more than anything I’ve played for a while, another nice list this week. Second Jack White track out is another keeper, and the Ililta! 12, especially, is really growing on me.

Pulp have been named as the recipients of the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music Award at this year's NME Awards.

The Black Keys have said that they "honestly feel bad" for artists like Lana Del Rey.

A little over a month into 2012 and great new albums seem to be a-popping up all over the shop, something arriving in the post every day almost that either thrills or beguiles, demanding our attention and more often than not handsomely rewarding it. Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas was rightly applauded in last month's Uncut, and in the current issue similar praise is lavished on Lambchop’s Mr M, which reminds us why we have loved them for so long and also what it was in the first place that got us so excited about Kurt Wagner’s Nashville country-soul collective.

Killing Joke have announced full details of their new studio album '2012'.