The Verve and Muse will do battle for the best live act at this years Vodafone Live Music Awards. Kaiser Chiefs and Primal Scream are also nominated for the award, which will be handed out at a ceremony in London this autumn. Read more >>

Two associates of Snoop Dogg have been arrested after police stopped the rapper's tour bus en route to a concert in Dallas. Ethan Calhoun, 27, and Kevin Barkey, 26, were both charged with marijuana possession after police found two ounces of the drug. Read more >>

Former Faces bandmates Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood are continuing to argue over money – 30 years after Wood first claimed Stewart was “tight”. Although Stewart has always denied the claim, the singer claims his former guitarist still won't let the issue go. Read more >>

Keane have confirmed that their new album will be called 'Perfect Symmetry'. The album, which will be released on October 13th, was recorded at studios in Paris, London and Berlin. Read more >>

Los Campesinos! are to release their second album, entitled 'We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed', on October 13th. The album was recorded last month alongside Blonde Redhead and Wu Tang Clan produced John Goodmanson. Read more >>

Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood has contributed to the score for the forthcoming movie Woodpecker. Greenwood plays bass on the soundtrack to the Alex Karpovsky film, will also features Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah brothers Lee & Tyler Sargent. Read more >>

The Arctic Monkeys are struggling to record their third album because guitarist Jamie Cook and his girlfriend can't decide where to live, it's been reported. According to the Mirror, Cook and Katie Downes' indecision is causing “Yoko Ono” like problems for the band. Read more >>

Clash's entire performance at the Shea Stadium in 1982 is to be released on CD. The band's 15-song set at the New York venue, which closed earlier this month, will be available to buy from October 15th. Read more >>

Snow Patrol have recorded their new album, 'One Hundred Million Suns', in the same studios as fellow Irishmen U2. The band's new album, which is the follow-up to 2006's 'Eyes Open', is due out later this year. Read more >>

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has hit out at Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty – calling the latter a “coward”. In an interview with the Daily Record, Lydon said that the Babyshambles singer had become trapped in a pulicity campaign that has “run out of order”. Read more >>

An online petition will donate all its proceeds to Aids charities if it achieves its main target – to get U2 frontman Bono to retire from public life. Organisers say the petition, which has so far raised $390, wants to help stop Bono from “leading misguided counter-productive philanthropy efforts”. Read more >>

A recording of John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney sharing jokes with each other is set to go under the hammer. The candid clip is expected to raised upwards of £12,000 when it is auctioned next Tuesday at the Cameo auction house. Read more >>

Amy Winehouse's mother, Janis, says she believes her daughter no longer uses drugs. Speaking to the Mirror newspaper, Mrs Winehouse said her daughter's recent health problems, which include being diagnosed with traces of the lung disease emphysema, had given her “a bit of a wake-up call.” Read more >>

Led Zeppelin will not reform to play a one off show at Cardiff's Millennium stadium, despite desperate efforts to get the band to consider the concert. It had been hoped that the group would announce more shows following their reunion concert at the O2 Arena in London last December. Read more >>