Deeply personal return for seasoned Texan...

Thom Yorke has defended his position on Spotify, after he and producer Nigel Godrich took to Twitter to express their views that the streaming service was "bad for new music" before announcing that they would be pulling their material from it.

A website has been launched for 20,000 Days On Earth, the fictional film charting 24 hours in the life of Nick Cave. The film, directed by multi-media artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, features cameos from Ray Winstone and Kylie Minogue, is due for release in Spring 2014. The website contains teaser footage from the film.

David Bowie has unveiled the video for "Valentine's Day" – watch it below. The track is the fourth single from Bowie's album The Next Day. It was directed by Indrani and Markus Klinko, who previously collaborated with Bowie on the artwork for the 2002 Heathen album. The track will also be released as a limited edition picture disc on August 19, with the track 'Plan' as a b-side.

Bob Dylan has released a trailer for the Bootleg Series Volume 10. The trailer for Another Self Portrait (1969 - 1971) includes interviews with Al Kooper and David Bromberg, who both played on the sessions, as well as clips for songs including “Went To See The Gypsy”, “Pretty Saro”, “Tell Old Bill”, "Time Passes Slowly” and “When I Paint My Masterpiece”. More information about Another Self Portrait (1969 - 1971) is expected later today.

When unpleasant right-wing governments seize control by one means or another, a lot of wishful thinking often goes on among radical artists. Hard times, they speculate, will encourage a new counterculture; angry political art will flourish in the face of oppression. We heard a lot of this rhetoric from dissenters trying to put a positive gloss on the election of David Cameron in 2010. But as yet, a provocative cultural revolt against the Tories, if there is one, remains too underground to register on most radar.

Influential former Miracle Legion mainstay breaks a long silence...

Arcade Fire will release their fourth studio album on October 29. The band announced the release date on Twitter earlier today (July 12) in a pretty unusual fashion - in reply to a fan who had tweeted "you're my favourite" at them. The band Tweeted in response: "Thanks. Our new album will be out October 29th". It had previously been reported that the album, the band's follow-up to 2010's The Suburbs, would be released on September 9.

Arctic Monkeys have revealed the artwork to their new album AM. The artwork, which you can see above, was posted on Twitter by the band this morning (July 14) along with a message which reads: "Here's the artwork for 'AM', released on 9th Sept 2013." The minimal design is in keeping with the animated video and artwork for the album's lead single 'Do I Wanna Know?'.

The Rolling Stones brought to a close their 50 & Counting tour on Saturday (June 13), with a second show at London's Hyde Park. The band had kicked off their 50 & Counting tour on October 25 last year with a club show in the 600 capacity La Trabendo in Paris and another at the 1,800 capacity venue le Théâtre Mogador on October 29.