Neil Young & Crazy Horse kicked off the European leg of their Alchemy tour last night (June 2). The band played in Waldbühne, Berlin, an outdoor arena with a capacity of 22,000. According to reports, the stage sets that the band had used on the previous legs of the tour were absent.

Atoms For Peace have revealed more footage of themselves rehearsing ahead of their forthcoming tour. This morning (June 3), Nigel Godrich tweeted a YouTube clip of the band performing "Rabbit In Your Headlights" – Yorke's 1998 collaboration with electronic duo UNKLE – scroll down to watch it.

Brian May led thousands on a march through London yesterday (June 1) to protest the UK Government's planned badger cull. The guitarist opposes the culling of badgers, which authorities say is necessary to combat bovine tuberculosis (TB), and submitted a petition with 234,000 signatures to Downing Street demanding the scheme be axed. Speaking at the demonstration, organised for the day before culling is due to start in west Gloucestershire and West Somerset, Brian May told reporters: "If the Government don't listen to us today the pressure will still be there.

Lou Reed has said he is "feeling better and stronger than ever" following a life-saving liver transplant last month. On Saturday (June 1), Reed's wife Laurie Anderson revealed that her husband had been recovering since his operation but suggested that he might not "ever totally recover" from the surgery. However, Reed has since posted a message to fans on Facebook, where he described himself as a "triumph of modern medicine" and announced that he is looking forward to returning to the stage.

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Reports out today (May 31) suggest that BBC will only be able to broadcast the first four songs of The Rolling Stones' headline slot at Glastonbury.

Ringo Starr is to reveal a collection of previously unseen Beatles photographs in a new book due out next month. Photograph will be released as an e-book on Apple's iBookstore on June 12 and will coincide with Ringo: Peace & Love, a Grammy Museum exhibit on Starr. A physical version of the book will be released in December and features pictures of Starr alongside his fellow Beatles bandmates as they rose to fame in Liverpool.

Boards Of Canada will hold a 'Live Album Transmission' for their new album 'Tomorrow's Harvest' on Monday (June 3). The group, who recently hosted an unusual album playback for the album involving two speakers in the middle of the desert, will host the mysterious broadcast at 9pm UK time.

Elvis Costello is to release a new album in September. The album, a collaboration with The Roots, will be called Wise Up Ghost and will be released on September 16 on Blue Note Records. We first reported on the album back in February, as a possible Record Store Day release.

James Murphy has said he thinks the new Arcade Fire album will be "really great". Murphy, who has helped to produce a number of tracks on the forthcoming album, told Rolling Stone: "I think it's going to be a really great record, actually. I'm eager to see it come out." The Canadian band joined Murphy at the DFA studio earlier this year to work on new material. "There's a lot of them, and they're mostly self-produced – like, they don't need a producer in a certain way. So I didn't know how it would go," he said.