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• Girls Got The Blues - UK’s first female-fronted blues-based festival

  Girls Got The Blues is a brand new, one-day music festival to be held in Manchester, May 6 2007. (Yep - that’s this coming Sunday, folks).

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• More puns than a pun convention

  Cockerhead? Motorcock? Uncommon People? We'll admit to being spoilt for choice when it came to writing a headline to accompany the news that former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has included Motorhead amongst the acts set to play this year's Meltdown festival at London's South Bank in June.

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• Alice In Chains working on new album

  Alice In Chains have begun the songwriting process for a new studio album. An online posting by one of the band's promotional team states: "I've been [in Los Angeles] for five days, sat through three rehearsals and one demo recording session, listened to several other demos, and I can happily report that the new stuff is kicking my ass right out of my pants. Remember that these songs are still only in the early stages of being written too. Just in the time I've been here, the guys have taken a riff and worked on it and expanded it and added layers to it, and now it's practically a full-fledged song."

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• Status Quo to release In Search Of The Fourth Chord album

  Watch out – the Quo's about! With a self mocking album title, no less. The band will release their 33rd album, In Search Of The Fourth Chord, on September 10 via their own Fourth Chord label in the UK (and through Edel in Europe and Scandinavia).

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• Jack White working on second Raconteurs album

  There may be a new White Stripes on the horizon but Jack White isn't hanging about, his other band The Raconteurs have started work on their second album, the follow-up to last year's Broken Boy Soldiers.

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• Smiths guitarist writes song for reunited Crowded House

  Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths, has helped to write a song for the first new Crowded House album in 14 years.

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• Smell the glove again: Spinal Tap to reform at Wembley stadium

  Spinal Tap, the legendary mock heavy metal group (although Liam Gallagher apparently thinks they are real) immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap will reunite for a one-off performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of worldwide Live Earth concerts on July 7.

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• 10 Foot Les Pauls Hit London!

  The UK’s leading musical stars and The O2 support Gibson Guitartown London charity campaign, June – September 2007

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• Ratt reunite

  Eighties US glam rockers Ratt are back! Vocalist Stephen Pearcy, guitarist Warren DeMartini and drummer Bobby Blotzer will hit stage together for the first time since 1999 this Summer for a tour with fellow hair rockers Poison. However plans are afoot for not only a tour but a fully-fledged comeback. The band will continue touring into the Autumn with possible stops in Canada, Europe, Japan, South America and Australia. Joining the three original members onstage will be bassist Robbie Crane and guitarist, former Mötley Crüe frontman, John Corabi.

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• Beatles/Metallica hybrid tribute band announce new album

  Beatallica - the band that melds Beatles and Metallica songs in an inspired metal style - have announced a new album for a 9 July release. The title? Sgt Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band, of course!

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