Taylor Swift has hinted that she’ll be heading in a new direction for her next album, stating that she can’t ‘make a Red 2.0’.

Pop-rock trio Paramore have premiered the official music video for Daydreaming, the band's next singleset for release on December 2.

Going fully electric, Snowbombing has announced the high-calibre, blockbuster names of the Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Groove Armada for the 2014 festival.

Nightwish are set to release their new DVD 'Showtime, Storytime' in December and in anticipation of the release, the band has released a second trailer for the DVD. 

Taylor Swift, Bon Jovi and James Blunt have signed up for a charity concert at Kensington Palace in London.

No Sinner - the powerhouse blues rock band from Vancouver, Canada fronted by vocalist Colleen Rennison - will release their debut mini album 'Boo Hoo Hoo' on January 20, 2014. 

Rap metal titans Limp Bizkit have offered a new track, Thieves, as a free download.

One of music’s true originals, Van Morrison has announced a handful of live shows for early 2014.

Exeter soul-punks The Computers release a new single on November 18. C.R.U.E.L is taken from the band’s latest album 'Love Triangles, Hate Squares' and is accompanied with a new video.

Originally released in 2002 as a Saddle Creek online store exclusive with all proceeds benefiting the Nebraska AIDS Project, Bright Eyes’ ‘A Christmas Album’, containing 11 covers of Christmas songs, will be getting its first widespread commercial release on November 4.  

Gabriella Cilmi has announced a much-anticipated five-date tour of the UK for March 2014. 

Five Finger Death Punch have continued the countdown to the release of 'The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell - Volume 2' out November 18 via Eleven Seven. The album can be pre-ordered here.

James Arthur has performed a rousing acoustic version of Get Down, the second track taken from his debut, self-titled album.

Ed Sheeran has unveiled a brand new track, I See Fire, which is lifted from the soundtrack to ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’.

Sting and Paul Simon have announced that they will embark on a co-headline tour of the US together.

Bombay Bicycle Club have unveiled details of their fourth album in five years, as well as the record's first single Carry Me, which is available to download. 

If any band deserves a party, it's Paradise Lost. Having risen from the depths of the death metal underground with their monumental 'Gothic' album back in 1991, the self proclaimed 'Yorkshire Puddings' have since embarked on a musical rollercoaster ride violent enough to earn a spot at Alton Towers.

Currently on the road in Europe with Wednesday 13, the Defiled have announced their first headline tour of the UK in support of latest album 'Daggers'. Named the No Place Like Home Tour, they will hit the road from February 8 to 18, bringing with them Butcher Babies and The Killing Lights.

To say that it's been a bit of a whirlwind ride for Walking Papers since they formed in 2012 would be an understatement. Comprised of the Missionary Position's Jeff Angell and Benjamin Anderson, former Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and Duff McKagan, legendary bassist of Guns N' Roses, the foursome have barely had a moment to spare since plugging in.

Motorhead have revealed rescheduled dates for their UK tour, which was originally planned to go ahead later this month.