Kiss plan to open over 100 restaurants in North America.
The band have just opened the third branch of Rock & Brews in the greater Los Angeles area and have said that they wish to open 100 more in the next five years.
The National are streaming their forthcoming new album Trouble Will Find Me online.
The Brooklyn band don't release their sixth studio LP until May 20, but have now made the record available for stream via iTunes.
Trouble Will Find Me is the follow-up to the band's 2010 album, High Violet, and features contributions from St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten and Sufjan Stevens. It was produced by Craig Silvey.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield has become the first person ever to record a music video in space, filming his version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station.
Camden Council have given the go-ahead to the plans to install a statue of late singer Amy Winehouse in the borough.
Artist Scott Easton's sculpture of the singer has been in the works for some time but, according to the Camden New Journal, Camden Town Conservation Authority had stated its opposition to the proposal. However, after a meeting earlier this week, local councillors approved the project and the statue will now be installed at a balcony in at Camden's Roundhouse venue this September.
Lindsey Buckingham has confirmed that Fleetwood Mac plan to continue releasing new material.
The recently reformed band put out their first new material in 10 years with their Extended Play EP and, in an interview with Billboard, Buckingham said it was "safe to say" that they would be releasing more new songs in the future.
New Order have announced the release of a new live album.
Live At Bestival 2012, recorded at Rob and Josie da Bank's annual bash last year, will be released on CD and download on July 8. All profits will go to the Isle Of Wight Youth Trust.
Drummer Stephen Morris said: "We played at so many festivals in 2012, and our highlights were, without doubt, the last two in the UK, Portmeirion and Bestival. Saturday night was fancy dress night, and Gillian enjoyed dressing up in her peacock head-dress.
Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney and Miles Davis came close to forming a supergroup, it has been revealed.
When Hendrix, Davis and Davis's drummer Tony Williams were planning to record an album together in 1969, backed by producer Alan Douglas, they sent a telegram to McCartney asking him to join them on bass.
The telegram, sent on October 22 1969, read: "We are recording and (sic) LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."
Best known for his work on The Beach Boys’ Smile, Parks is a student of serious music, whose flirtation with the counterculture saw him fall in with unlikely company. His first job was arranging “The Bear Necessities” for Disney’s Jungle Book, but his association with Brian Wilson led to him producing debuts by Ry Cooder and Randy Newman, as well as making idiosyncratic solo albums. As he prepares to release his new album, Songs Cycled (reviewed in this month’s Uncut, dated June 2013), we look back to July 2010’s issue, where Parks reflects on a career that’s straddled the worlds of serious music and pop, without fitting in to either. Words: Alastair McKay
