Richard Ashcroft is to release a new single to coincide with his summer festival appearances.‘Words Just Get In The Way’ is out on July 10. It’s the third track to be lifted from the star’s third solo album, ‘Keys To The World’.

Veteran German thrashers Destruction are to headline the Irish Day Of Darkness Festival, which happens in Ballylinan, Co. Laois on July 7/8. The full list of bands is:JULY 7 – Moonsorrow, Geasa, Sorrowfall, Ground Of Ruin, Minds Astray.JULY 8– Destruction, Primordial, Morphosis, Hexxed, Mass Extinction, Aftermath, Primed, For Ruin, A Distant Sun, Nothing is Sacred.

311, Jurassic 5, the Wailers are the first artists set for the second U.S. edition of U.K.’s Download Festival. The event will encompass two concerts: Aug. 20 with the aforementioned bands at the Tweeter Center outside Boston and Sept. 30 at Shoreline Amphitheatre near San Francisco, with a lineup to be announced.

The Lost Weekend, the festival spin off of Glastonbur’s Lost Vagueness field, has been cancelled.The organisers have released a statement via their official website saying thay have been forced to to pull the event.The festival was due to see appearances form The Zutons, Julian Cope and The New York Dolls over the weekend of June […]

Milburn have announced details of a new UK tour for this July.The tour, set to coincide with their next single ‘Chesire Cat Smile’ released on July 10, will have 8 dates, the first one being July 11 (Aberdeen) and the last one July 19 (Oxford).

Primal Scream have been added to the bill for this year’s Roskilde Festival. The quite brilliant Mancunians join a plethora of top acts on the Danish Festival’s eclectic bill. Also playing the musical extravaganza are the likes of Sigur Ros, Kanye West, Placebo, Wolfmother, Franz Ferdinand, Tool and Arctic Monkeys. Roskilde takes place on June […]

Slayer have uploaded new song ‘Cult’ for streaming on their official website. This comes from their new, as yet untitled album, due out at the end of July.

Rock trio Oysterhead is hoping to mount its first tour since 2001 later this year. Рўhe group, which features drummer Stewart Copeland, guitarist Trey Anastasio and bassist Les Claypool, will return to live duty later this month at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn.Oysterhead‘s lone album, “The Grand Pecking Order”, was released in 2001 by […]

Perry Farrell‘s new band Satellite Party has signed with Columbia, which will release its self-titled debut album later this year. Рўhe project boasts guest appearances by Red Hot Chili Peppers members Flea and John Frusciante, plus New Order bassist Peter Hook.

Kasabian have titled their second album ‘Empire’– after the band’s private ‘Star Wars’-inspired buzzword.Scheduled for release on September 4, it was recorded after they returned from touring the US with Oasis in November last year. The Leicester five-piece spent four eventful weeks at Rockfield Studios in Wales putting the album together.