Doors keyboard player Ray Manazarek has passed away. He was 74. The cause of death was bile duct cancer.

Former New Order bass player Peter Hook and his band The Light will perform New Order's Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies albums in full for North American audiences in September 2013.

Speaking to Noise11, Derek Trucks says the new Tedeschi Trucks album feels like "five steps forward" compared to their 2011 debut, Revelator. "This one feels like five steps forward," Trucks says. "Everybody knows each other, everybody is more confident. It hits hard. We wrote a bunch of great tunes. I’m excited about this one. I think it will make some noise."

Guitarist Robin Finck has rejoined Nine Inch Nails, the band he has played with at various points since 1994.

Whitesnake will release a new double live album in July, commemorating the wildly successful tour in support of the band's Forevermore album.

The new Megadeth album, Super Collider, is due next month, and frontman Dave Mustaine is pretty fond of it from the sound of this, but he understands if you're not into it, too.

Chris Hadfield - often called 'the coolest guy in outer space,' - has recoded the most out-of-this-world cover ever: David Bowie's Space Oddity from 250 miles high and hurtling around the Earth at more than 17,000 miles per hour while aboard the International Space Station.

If there's one thing KISS fans can always rely on, it's the reassuring familiarity of the band's live show. Gene Simmons flying up to the light truss, Gene Simmons spitting fire, Gene Simmons spitting blood… Paul Stanley zip lining out to the middle of the audience, Tommy Thayer blasting the light rig with rocket fire from his signature Epiphone Les Paul… but it seems the band is about to shake things up.

Guns n' Roses guitarist Richard Fortus has told Noise11 that the band is nearly done recording the follow-up to 2008's Chinese Democracy. The band have reportedly completed many songs for the new album during a recent studio visit. However, Fortus did say that the album probably wouldn't be released this year, but maybe during 2014.

The lineup for this year's Austin City Limits has just been announced, and some of the top names include Kings of Leon, Muse, and Queens of the Stone Age. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Thom Yorke of Radiohead will also make an appearance with "super group" Atoms For Peace. For fans of the eighties, veteran names like The Cure and Depeche Mode are also on the bill.