Patti Smith has been added to the line-up for this year's Green Man Festival. Smith will headline a night of live music in the Far Out Tent on the Thursday night (August 15) of the festival that runs between August 15 and 18. Smith's appearance, the only UK festival she will be performing at this Summer, will see her join a bill that includes Jon Langford, Matt Berry and Manchester band Money.

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.

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Just before the release of 2007’s Era Vulgaris, Uncut’s Jaan Uhelzski headed out to California to see if head wrangler Josh Homme could keep the party going when the group’s hedonistic regulars had been barred…

Although I’m currently watching films due for release in July – which will take us over halfway through 2013 – I’m conscious that there’s a lot of great stuff still to come during the rest of the year.

Rodriguez reflects on his unexpected musical comeback and his political ambitions in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now).

Bob Iver's Justin Vernon is to release a new album with his Volcano Choir project. Volcano Choir - a collaboration with Collections Of Colonies Of Bees - will release a studio album, Repave on September 3, 2013 on Jagjaguwar records. Scroll down to watch the official trailer for the album. Repave is the follow-up to the 2009 debut, Unmap. The tracklisting for Repave is: 1. "Tiderays" 2. "Acetate" 3. "Byegone" 4. "Comerade" 5. "Alaskans" 6. "Dancepack" 7. "Almanac" 8. "Keel"

The Velvet Underground have settled their dispute with the Andy Warhol Foundation over the rights to the Warhol-designed 'banana' logo on the sleeve of the band's 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground And Nico. The band sued the foundation last year after it licensed the 'banana' logo from their debut for use on iPhone and iPad products, reports Associated Press.

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300 Kate Bush fans gathered in a park in Brighton over the weekend to break the record for the most lookalikes re-enacting the famous video for her 1978 single "Wuthering Heights". Wearing red dresses like the one Bush sports in the video as well as black wigs, fans gathered in Stanmer Park on May 25 and staged their own version of the cult video, reports The Argus. Click below to watch a video of the group rehearsing.