As a self professed cross between Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, The Pixies, Fugazi and Incubus, Arkansas' Always April certainly have a shroud of mystery around them.

The Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton has been found dead at his Michigan home at the age of 60.

Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game company, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks, along with marketing and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc., today revealed at the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit the song set list for Rock Band 2, the next evolution of the groundbreaking Rock Band music platform.

Singer/songwriter/music supervisor and bassist of New York City band Looker, AJ Lambert is set to release her debut solo recording, simply entitled EP.

News from the virtual world: -MONSTERS OF ROCK: The most intriguing face-off in the video-game industry this fall is between Electronic Arts' ''Rock Band'' and Activision's ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.''

Cult acts Sonic Youth, Grizzly Bear and El-P are the latest musicians to play concerts in support of independent radio stations in America. Sonic Youth will play their Free Yr Radio tour date in a branch of retail store Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica, California on July 21st to raise funds for nearby radio station KXLU.

Dinosaur Jr.'s first performances in the early 1980s were played in obscurity, the crowds numbering in the dozens, the spotlight so far away it cast no light in the tiny clubs and converted industrial spaces they rocked.

Dinosaur Jr. rocker Lou Barlow is pleased the original line-up of the band has reunited after nearly 20 years, because they can now end things amicably. Barlow quit Dinosaur Jr. following the 1988 album Bug, leaving frontman J Mascis to continue without him until the group folded in 1997.

Hollywood star Matt Dillon has directed the comeback video for rockers Dinosaur Jr. Dillon landed the job of shooting Been There All The Time after seeing the band play in New York, and wasn't quick to reject their ideas for the music promo. He recalls, "They said, 'We wanna do a video, are you interested in directing?'. So I said 'Yeah, what's the song about?' They said 'Uhhh ... chicks.'