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Graham Coxon has been added to the bill of Newquay’s Ripcurl Unleashed Music Festival.The pop legend joins bands including Feeder, Starsailor and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly at the festival, which ends a week of outdoor sporting events.The music part of the festival will take place on the 4th and 5th of August.

The Raconteurs have announced a new set of North American tour dates that will see them head out again in the late summer.Having previously announced details of their first ever North American tour last month the band featuring Jack White and Brendan Benson will play ten dates in SeptРµmber.The gigs kick off in Houston at […]

The Rolling Stones have confirmed details of their next single. The wrinkly rockers will release the latest track from their album вЂA Bigger Bang’, вЂBiggest Mistake’ on August 21. The release coincides with the European leg of their World Tour.

“Waterloo to Anywhere,” the debut album from ex-Libertines principal Carl Barat‘s new band Dirty Pretty Things, will be released Aug. 1 in North America via Interscope. The set has been out since last month internationally; first single “Bang Bang You’re Dead” reached No. 5 on the U.K. singles chart, while the album debuted at No. […]

Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick has died. He was 55. Welnick took over as the cult band’s keyboard player in 1990 and continued until the band retired from performing following the death of founder and frontman Jerry Garcia in 1995.

As promised, Gorefest launched their new website on June 1st. Go to this location to check it out.The band has also updated their tour schedule for 2006.

Primal Scream have announced a UK tour in support of new album ‘Riot City Blues’.The band kick off the tour in Newcastle on November 14 and will run through November 29.‘Riot City Blues’ is out on Monday (June 5). Before the tour, the band play a number of UK Festivals this summer, including Isle Of […]

Glass Casket are to release their new album through Abacus in mid-June. It’s to be called вЂA Desperate Man’s Diaries’.

Open Hand have posted a new track on their myspace page: www.myspace.com/openhand

Former Faith No More/Bad Brains frontman Chuck Mosley has a new band: Vandals Against Illiteracy. They’re currently working on a debut album, which will be called вЂWill Rap Over Hard Rock For Food’.