Yoko Ono is set to direct and curate next year's Meltdown Festival at London's Southbank Centre. The 2013 festival will take place from June 14-23. The music and arts event has previously been helmed by David Bowie, Patti Smith and Jarvis Cocker. Of her involvement with Meltdown, musician and visual artist Ono has said: "I am deeply honoured to curate the world-famous Meltdown Festival. In doing so I am aware of the great tradition of experimentalism mixed with classicism that has made the festival such an enduring part of the British arts landscape."

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The Rolling Stones have unveiled a brand new track titled "One More Shot" – scroll down to listen to it. The song is the second new recording from the rock legends, who have been back in the studio for the first time in seven years. It follows the release of the track 'Doom And Gloom' and will feature on the band's new greatest hits compilation GRRR!. Like "Doom And Gloom", "One More Shot" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and was recorded in Paris with longtime Stones collaborator Don Was, who worked with the band on their last five LPs.

Black Sabbath have revealed that they are six tracks into recording their new album. Tony Iommi has said that the final album will consist of 15 tracks. The Guardian quotes the guitarist as saying: "We've written the 15 songs and we've played them all, but now at the moment we're recording them. We're about six tracks in at the moment."

Quite tempting yesterday to play nothing but “Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours”, but here’s this week’s playlist, with quite a few new clips (Broadcast, Jessica Pratt, Hiss, Ty!), links and new entries.

Robert Plant was temporarily knocked to the floor when a fan invaded the stage during a recent gig in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Scroll down to watch fan-filmed footage of the incident. The stage invasion happened last Thursday [November 1] when Plant and his group The Sensational Space Shifters performed at Estadio Luna Park and had just finished performing Led Zeppelin's "Going To California". A man ran onto the stage and approached Plant but was tackled by security with the scuffle causing Plant to lose his balance and topple over.

A rare post-Beatles John Lennon letter to Eric Clapton is expected to fetch as much as £19,000 at auction this week. The handwritten letter by the former Beatle is set to go under the hammer in Los Angeles at the Profiles in History auction on December 18, Reuters reports.