Arrows of Love have set June 3rd as the release date for their new single ‘The Knife’ via Urban Fox Records. The Hackney 4-piece have also announced a full UK tour starting this week that will see their incendiary live show explode in 12 cities before they visit Europe for shows and festivals.

Heavy metal icons Black Sabbath have long been masters of reality, but now, they seem to be masters of the plant world too - as it’s been claimed that plants that are blasted with the sound of the band grow much healthier than others!

Belgian sextet, Girls In Hawaii, have announced details of two shows at this year's Great Escape festival in Brighton. This will be the band's first time at The Great Escape and they're set to mark this with the release of their new EP, 'Misses', on 13th May 2013 via French label, Naive.

Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch has made a dig at American superstar Beyonce’s cover of his daughter’s track ‘Back to Black’ - stating that he thinks she doesn’t ‘bring anything to it’.

The latest names, to complete this year’s line­up, have been revealed by Europe’s most acclaimed folk festival: ground breaking Malian husband­and­wife duo Amadou & Mariam, acclaimed worldwide for their songcraft, vocal interplay and thrilling electric blues sound; exquisite songwriting and sublime harmonies from sibling trio The Staves, whom the Festival has nurtured from their 2011 debut in The Den through the Club Tent and Stage 2 to Main Stage 1 this year; Tommy Emmanuel, regarded as the world’s most exciting country­folk acoustic guitarist; Thea Gilmore, described by Mojo magazine as “the most coherent, literate and charged British singer­songwriter of her generation”; The Rambling Boys of Pleasure, boasting some of the finest musicians on the Irish traditional music scene: Bernard O’Neill, Gino Lupari, Alan Burke, David Munnelly and Sean Regan; American singer, writer and guitarist Darrell Scott, one of the most in­demand sidemen, as well as a highly­regarded musician in his own right; compelling, Bafta­winning songwriter Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo, from Western Australia; Jamie Smith’s Mabon, an irresistible blend of world music, Celtic roots and rabble­rousing funk folk; rural Indiana’s finest finger­pickin’ country blues trio The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band; a stunningly emotive mix of blues, folk, gospel, soul, Appalachian and bluegrass from hotly tipped newcomer Valerie June.

Completing a US tour this weekend in support of their 2013 studio album ‘The Savage Playground’, Swedish sleaze rockers Crashdïet fly into the UK for a six date co-headlining UK tour with UK rock band JettBlack and three further support acts: Fallen Mafia, Hell In The Club and Sleekstain.

Charlee Drew has released his new EP 'Past The Distraction' for free on his official website charleedrew.co.uk. The 3-track EP includes the tracks 'Somebody Else', 'This Way' and 'Ask You To Leave', all of which have been written and produced by the singer.

Somebody once said to me that a good song is a story, not necessarily in terms of its lyricism but in terms of what it tells us about its creators. If that is the case then Mat Sweet (aka. Boduf Songs)’s life must be one, perhaps unsurprisingly, of subtly bubbling tension. His songs, even those given a full band treatment on recent album ‘Burnt Up on Re-Entry’, are reduced to bare bones at Café Oto tonight. Perched in front of a mostly seated crowd, Sweet’s voice cracks lightly above his gently reverberating guitar work. It’s a performance that verges into hauntingly insecure territory on more than one occasion.

Irish alt-rock outfit The Script have announced a gig in Bridlington’s Spa today, which will follow their already-arranged Forest Live gig in Thetford.

Piers Agget, Kesi Dryden, Amir Amor and Leon Rolle – the quartet that make up Rudimental – have topped the UK singles chart with their infectious new track 'Waiting All Night’. Featuring the powerful vocals of Ella Eyre, it had the biggest first week sales of any single this year, giving the Hackney-based band their second chart-topping hit following the phenomenal Brit nominated – ‘Feel The Love’, featuring John Newman.

Beady Eye man Liam Gallagher is no stranger to having a wild night out when he’s on the lash, something you’d know all about if you follow the star in the news. Earlier this month, he was thrown out of the same pub twice in one week, for being too drunk. Last year, he was thrown out of the Real Madrid vs Manchester City match, after causing a fracas with Spanish police - just weeks after claiming that he’d ‘get drunk and naked every night’ if he was Prince Harry.

Following his critically acclaimed new album 'Thank You Mr Churchill', and his successful 35th Anniversary Tour of his multi-platinum selling live album 'Frampton Comes Alive!', Grammy-winning guitarist and songwriter Peter Frampton will play a rare UK concert at the London Camden Roundhouse on Tuesday 5th November.  

GlobalGathering have announced that dub royalty Nero will be returning this year for a live show.

’30 Rock’ star and ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member and comedian, Tracy Morgan has announced he will be playing his first run of UK stand up shows in October 2013.

Nero, Example and Pitbull are the latest top acts confirmed for Ireland's Oxegen Festival 2013, while more are set for announcement 7pm tonight.

Lets be frank - Ke$ha is a bit of a weird-o. In the past year or so, she’s talked about dressing her assistant up as a penis, claimed she got freaky with a ghost, and even revealed that ‘Gold Trans Am’ (a track she penned with her mother) was actually about her vagina - and those are just the stories I can remember.

Mercury prize winners M People have unveiled dates for an extensive October UK tour, celebrating the 20th anniversary of seminal album ‘Elegant Slumming’.

'Free My Pussy' from singer/songwriter Kate Nash's recent album 'Girl Talk' was released as a limited edition heart shaped vinyl for Record Store day last weekend. This week a new video for 'Free My Pussy' has also surfaced on YouTube.

Legendary folk rock man Richie Haven - who found major success after putting on an incredible opening performance at the world-famous 1969 Woodstock Festival - has died following a heart attack, aged 72.

Comdian Russell Howard has announced a new stand-up arena tour for early 2014. His new 'Wonderbox' show will kick-off in Bournemouth on Sunday 23rd February 2014 and will conclude with four dates at London's Royal Albert Hall in mid-April 2014.