The Strokes are in the running to headline Reading and Leeds festival next year, it is rumored. The group are currently in the studio finishing off their anticipated fourth album. The band are looking to play the new album to a heavier rock audience at Leed/Reading, The Sun reports. Read more >>

Blink-182 have announced that their new album will be released in April/May of next year. The new album will be the band's first release since 2003's self entitled album, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus has said that a number of songs are 'very near complete'. Read more >>

Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has given his pal Liam Gallagher's band Beady Eye his music seal of approval. The singer who has heard a selection of the band's songs, believes that Beady Eye will blow fans away with their debut album. Read more >>

My Chemical Romance have announed that they want to turn their new album 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' into a BBC mini series. The band believe new album 'Danger Days', released on November 22, will work well as a TV series. Read more >>

Rihanna has explained some of the inspiration behind tracks off new album 'Loud'. The singer's fourth album 'Loud', set for release November 22, is highly inspired by the reggae godfather Bob Marley, the Daily Star reports. Read more >>

T.I. has revealed that prison is changing his perspectives on life. The rapper, who is currently serving an 11 month prison sentence for parole violations and further drug possession, is tiring of life in prison. Read more >>

Kasabian's new album is going to be "Nothing like 'West Ryder Lunatic Asylum'," says Tom Meighan. The frontman revealed the new musical direction for the band: 'If people are expecting 'West Ryder…' or 'Underdog' they've got another thing coming because it's nothing like the last record. We're not the same band anymore. We always keep changing." Meighan told Absolute Radio. Read more >>

Katy Perry has said she is 'excited' about performing at The American Music Awards on Sunday (November 21). The singer broke down during her performance of 'Fireworks' last week at Radio1 Teen Awards. Read more >>

The Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed, priemerd his new 28 minute film about his 102-year old cousin at the Vienna Film Festival. The film 'Red Shirley' features Reed interviewing his cousin Shirley Novack about her life, including tales of the Nazi threat in 1938, reports the Independent. Read more >>

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey is one of a number of musicians to slam the X Factor and its mainstream music. Daltrey believes that the music industry is in crisis - and that it is is down to Simon Cowell and talent shows like the X Factor. Read more >>

Funeral For A Friend will hit the road in March and April next year to play seventeen dates in a number of intimate venues throughout the UK. The tour kicks off in Aberystwyth on March 16 and will conclude in Wrexham on April 4. Suppot at the dates will come from Rise To Remain. Read more >>

Dr Dre is set to release his long-awaited album ‘Detox’ in February 2011. The record features collaborations with Eminem, Jay-Z, La Roux’s Elly Jackson and The Game. Read more >>

Chris Brown has been commended by a US judge for his community service work. The R&B star was given five years probation and six months community labour after pleading guilty to assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna in February 2009. Read more >>