St Jerome's Laneway Festival have been busy programming festival stages overseas, and hopefully dropping a few hints for their 2012 event in doing so.
The all-star team of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones has taken up residence in an LA studio to realise their album plans.
Those shaggy Sheffield lads Arctic Monkeys have locked in a tracklisting for their forthcoming, Josh Homme-assisted album.
Having put the finishing touches on an album built for the dancefloor, Franz Ferdinand chat to FasterLouder ahead of their summer tour.
Here's some news to send you skipping into the long weekend: both The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys have confirmed they are working on new records. Not together, of course.
From the moment Arctic Monkeys walk onstage to a twinkling introduction that sounds like a bad - œ70s TV theme, it's clear this isn't a typical concert DVD.
Having dropped many hints in the past, Damon Albarn has now announced his former band Blur will be heading into rehearsals again.
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