The Strokes are to release a new album in 2013. The band's fifth studio album will be released later this year and will likely be preceded by the single "All The Time", according to Billboard. News of a new LP comes just hours after a US radio station claimed it had been sent a brand new Strokes track titled "All The Time". According to Seattle's 107.7, the station was sent the track by RCA records. "We'll have to 'leak' this soon. You won't be disappointed..." a post on its Facebook page read.

Zero Dark Thirty is a companion piece to The Hurt Locker, the previous film from director Kathryn Bigelow and scriptwriter Mark Boal. But while The Hurt Locker viewed the War on Terror in microcosm, focussing on a three-man bomb disposal team during the Iraq war, Zero Dark Thirty tells a bigger story: the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, unfolding across a ten-year period in CIA Black Ops sites, military bases and embassies in destinations as far a field as Pakistan, Gdansk, London and the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Bono has said that the next U2 album will only be released when it's completely ready. The singer revealed that U2 are working on their 13th album, believed to be titled 10 Reasons To Exist. Discussing the band's 13th album. Speaking to The Sun, Bono said: "U2 have been back and they're really in fine fettle."

Prince has booked six dates at an intimate Minneapolis jazz club this week in order to audition for a new drummer. As reported by the Duluth News Tribune, Prince booked the dates at the Dakota Jazz Club at short notice and will also host a jam session for his band. The Minneapolis-born musician will reportedly play two "sound check" sets next Wednesday, two jam sessions on Thursday night and two shows on Friday night which are billed as a "surprise". Tickets, which cost between $70 and $200, have already sold out for all of the dates.

Joe Strummer is to be honoured with a square in the Spanish city of Granada named after him.

Thom Yorke has warned Prime Minister David Cameron against using any of his music in election campaigns, warning that he would "sue the shit out of him" if he did. Yorke, who has spoken out about many political, social and environmental issues in the past said in an interview with Dazed and Confused magazine: "Politics is not a fun thing to write about…I can’t say I love the idea of a banker liking our music, or David Cameron. I can’t believe he'd like [Radiohead’s last album] King Of Limbs much. But I also equally think, who cares?"

The Rolling Stones sold £24 million worth of tickets for their recent 50 And Counting shows. The band's sell-out shows in London on November 25 and 29 (2012) shifted as many as 31,755 tickets. Their US dates at Brooklyn's new Barclays Center on December 8 as well as a two-show stint on December 13 and 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, pushed the total number of tickets sold to 364,864 over all five dates, Billboard reports.

Suede have revealed the tracklisting to their new album Bloodsports. Last week, the band unveiled 'Barriers', the first song to be lifted from the album, which is due out in March 18. You can listen to the track on Suede's official website now. The first single from Bloodsports, titled 'It Starts And Ends With You', is due for release in February.

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Speaking to Uncut ahead of the 35th anniversary reissue of Rumours, Mick Fleetwood has revealed details of the band's most recent recording sessions.