Leonard Cohen has announced details of a UK arena tour. Cohen, who released his 12th studio album Old Ideas in January 2012, will play seven dates in August and September – calling in at Bournemouth, Brighton, Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds and Birmingham before a huge date at London's O2 Arena. Leonard Cohen will play: Bournemouth BIC (August 26) Brighton Centre (28) Manchester Arena (31) Cardiff Motorpoint Arena (September 3) Leeds Arena (5) Birmingham LG Arena (8) London The O2 (14)

David Byrne and St Vincent are giving away a free EP entitled 'Brass Tactics'. The EP, which features unreleased, live and remixed material is available to download here. David Byrne and St Vincent's Annie Clark released their acclaimed debut collaborative album, Love This Giant, last year. The 'Brass Tactics' EP tracklisting is: 'Cissus' [previously unreleased album track] 'I Should Watch TV' [M. Stine Remix] 'Lightning' [Kent Rockafeller Remix] 'Marrow' [live]

The George Harrison Memorial Garden at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Estate near Watford is now open to the public. Harrison – who passed away in 2001 – gave the site, formerly known as Piggots Manor, to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1973 after becoming a follower of the Hare Krishna religion. Following Harrison's death, a garden was created in his remembrance. His widow Olivia Harrison said: "I am grateful to the devotees for honouring George in the form of a garden. A manifestation in the material world of which he would be very proud."

Getting it together in the suburbs seems to be a peculiarly middle class rite of passage – the moment when city living is no longer tenable and a migration in pursuit of wider spaces, cleaner living and better schools is required. Such considerations are behind the decision taken by Nathaniel and Julia Noailles, who with their young, Aspergersy son Copley exchange their life in Boston for a more spacious existence in Dolores Woods, a large development on the outskirts of an un-named Midwestern city, in Patrick Flanery’s tremendous new novel, Fallen Land.

I don’t know if you saw it, but BBC2’s David Bowie documentary, Five Years, screened at the weekend, was very entertaining. A lot of the archive footage was familiar, but there were also some splendidly unexpected highlights, like a sequence of Bowie filmed at Andy Warhol’s Factory, which rather vividly suggested that Bowie’s talent for mime isn’t perhaps all it’s cracked up to be in which he pretended to unspool his own entrails and pluck out his heart, a performance that was doubtless accompanied by much sniggering from Andy's crowd.

Never-before-seen photos of The Rolling Stones are set to go on display in London. The rare 1960s pictures of the band will make up part of The Stones And Their Scene, an exhibition of photographs by the late Eric Swayne which will run at London gallery Proud Chelsea from June 13 until July 28. As well as featuring images of Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts, the exhibition also includes photos of David Bailey, Anita Pallenburg, Chrissie Shrimpton, Patti Boyd, Jane Birkin and Catherine Deneuve.

Boards Of Canada have hosted an unusual album playback for their new record Tomorrow's Harvest, setting up two speakers in the middle of the desert and giving fans co-ordinates to find the music for themselves. The band, who debuted new track "Cold Earth" at Detroit's Movement Festival on Monday (May 26), hinted that something would happen after posting an image on Twitter yesterday indicating they had plans for 5pm US Pacific Time.

Nigel Godrich has shared footage of Atoms For Peace rehearsing for their forthcoming European tour. Posting on Twitter on Sunday, producer Godrich wrote: "Currently trying to remember how to do this...." and posted a video of the band filmed in 2010 playing 'Cymbal Rush' at a festival in Fiji. He later shared a Youtube clip of bass player Flea rehearsing as well as a Vine of the whole group preparing for their upcoming live shows. Scroll down to see the Vine and watch the Youtube clip below.

Public Image Ltd. will support The Stone Roses at Finsbury Park on June 8, it has been confirmed. The news follows leaked information of the full support line-up for both of the Stone Roses London gigs, which take place next month, earlier this year. PiL were among the names leaked alongside Dizzee Rascal, Miles Kane and The Courteeners for the June 7 and 8 gigs.

Kings Of Leon's new album is "much more musically complicated" than previous effort according to bassist Jared Followill. Followill revealed a few details of the band's forthcoming sixth studio album, the follow up to Come Around Sundown, in a Q+A with fans on Twitter yesterday (May 27). Asked by one fan if the album will sound more like the "rookie" Kings Of Leon Followill replied: "Not really. There are definitely elements of it. Songs. Not as a whole though. It's a culmination of all of them."