I’ve alluded a few times in recent weeks to the excellence of the forthcoming “Spiderland” boxset, and especially to the Lance Bangs documentary, “Breadcrumb Trail”, which it contains. “Breadcrumb Trail” tells the odd, low-key, long-obfuscated tale of Slint, revealing much without entirely dismantling the band’s mystique, and focusing on the band’s drummer Britt Walford.

Double-disc retrospective from the king of rustic rock...

Keith Richards will release a children's with his daughter, Theodora, later this year. The guitarist will release Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar on September 9 after signing a deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Richards' artist daughter Theordora has illustrated the picture book, which was co-written with Barnaby Harris and Bill Shapiro.

Neil Young launched his high quality digital Pono music player and service yesterday (March 11) at SXSW in Austin, Texas, saying of the player "once you hear this, you can't go back."

“There wasn’t a lot of pre-production for What’s The Story. . .If we were at home, the postman would drop off an envelope and in it would be a cassette saying ‘Noel demos’. You’d get a phone call: ‘There’s the next album. Learn it. See you in a week.’ That’s the way Noel worked. Everyone would figure out the chords – there was no point asking him, he didn’t know the name of the fucking things. ‘It’s one of them where your finger’s up there. . .’”

A spokesperson for U2 has denied that the band have pushed back the release date of their 13th studio album to 2015. Investigations by Billboard last week suggested that the band had pushed the album back to next year. It reported that the band had booked further studio time with producers Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder, who would join the project's main producer Danger Mouse. It also suggested that U2 had cancelled a tour due to take place in summer 2014.

The Stooges are recording an album of material without Iggy Pop. The line-up of James Williamson, Mike Watt, Steve Mackay and Toby Dammit are working on an album, Re-Licked, with a series of guest vocalists including Mark Lanegan and Jello Biafra.

Neil Young has confirmed a pair of solo shows. Young, who is due to play four solo shows in Los Angeles, has now announced two shows in Dallas, Texas at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on April 17 and 18. Tickets for the two-night run will go on sale March 14 and are available here.

Roddy Frame has announced details of new album, Seven Dials. Seven Dials will be released on AED on Monday May 5h 2014. It's Frame's first since Western Skies in 2006, was recorded at West Heath Studios in London and co-produced with Seb Lewsley. The track listing for Seven Dials is as follows: White Pony Postcard Into The Sun Rear View Mirror In Orbit Forty Days Of Rain English Garden On The Waves The Other Side From A Train

The Heartbreakers keys man debuts - with a little help from his friends...