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Thursday, 19 October

More Stones news today - no, not the Stone Roses but the Rolling variety - and in shcok news Keith Richards has confessed that he has never actually seen Mick Jagger's penis! The group's very future was threatened after the guitarist claimed in his recent autobiography, Life, that his bandmate was not terribly well endowed. However it seems he might have jumped the gun. "I've only heard," says Richards now, admitting he hasn't seen Little Sir Mick. "I really don't want to go into it anymore, because what is in the book is in the book, and the fact is that Mick and I still talk and are still working together."
GQ.com

Well hopefully with todger-gate behind them, the 'Stones (yep the same one as above) haved debuted a never-heard-before track from their upcoming re-release of Some Girls today. No Spare Parts, was recorded in 1978, but only got its first play this morning on Ken Bruce's radio show.
RollingStones.com

The new Rihanna video has arrived. So was all the topless farmer-baiting worth it? You decide.

Coldplay and Norah Jones both performed at yesterday's Steve Jobs memorial at Apple's headquarters in Califronia. Chris Martin and co played Fix You while Jones covered Bob Dylan's Forever Young.
NYtimes.com

Want to see Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold arm-wrestle Joanna Newsom? Of course you do. The pair were facing off for Under The Rader magazine who celebrate their tenth anniversary next month. We're now one step closer to indie cage fighting...

Dirty Projectors have finished their new album. It's due to be released early next year and was rumoured to have a track that "disses" the Strokes called Maybe That Was It until frontman Dave Longstreth waded in to clear matters up. "To clarify: "maybe that was it" = not a diss track! julian and i hung last winter, he's a cool dude and we actually might make some music together at some point," he wrote on the band's Facebook page. "The song actually has nothing to do with the strokes' song." Oh and interestingly the band recorded the album in a shack in the woods it seems.
Spin.com

The ATP Festival curated by Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Magnum at Minehead has been delayed from December to March. "Our heartfelt apologies go out to any of you who had already made travel plans and we hope you'll be able to reschedule or get a refund on any transport bookings without any loss," explained the organisers. No word on whether Magnum's standalone tour dates in the UK and Ireland will go ahead as planned yet...
ATPFestival.com

Garbage's Butch Vig has spokenly about his band's five year hiatus. "Part of the reason why I started Garbage was that by the time I'd done Nevermind, I'd recorded - I swear to God - 1,000 bands that were just guitar-bass-drums. I was reading about all these other records that I was getting excited about - like Public Enemy using a sampler in the studio - and I just decided I wanted to do a bit of a U-turn," he explained. "Everyone told me I was crazy that I wanted to start new band and I probably was, but luckily it worked out for the better. I like that little clique of being with your bandmates, being in the clubhouse. And after a five-year hiatus I'm back in the clubhouse."
Billboard.com

Former New To Q act Michael Kiwanuka has done a Bands In Transit session - check it out below.

Is there a new Kanye West album on the way? It certainly seems that way if the rapper's tweets are anything to by. "GOODMUSIC.THE ALBUM.SPRING2012", he wrote yesterday.
@KanyeWest

Remember the Balloon Boy hoax that captured headlines worldwide in 2009? Well, the man behind it, his dad Richard Heene, has starred in a music video for a song about a superhero called Aluminium Man. The crime fighter "lives inside an aluminum can, cooks his eggs in an aluminum can," according to the lyrics.

Jamie Cullum got the 2011 Q Awards gigs underway yesterday at Kentish town Forum, London, surprising fans with a cover of Lana Del Rey's Video Games.
Qthemusic.com

The trial of Dr Conrad Murray, the man charged with causing Michael Jackson's death, rumbles on this week. Yesterday the court heard from an expert on Propofol, the sedative said to have killed Jackson, has defended the drug. "I am asked every day I'm in the operating room - I tell patients what I'm going to do and I am asked the question, Are you going to give me the drug that killed Michael Jackson?," Dr Steven Shafer told jurors yesterday.
RollingStone.com

The Ting Tings have announced an eight date UK tour. On each date on the tour, students will have the chance have their fashion, film and artwork creations showcased by the band at the venues in an effort to "champion new UK talent". Thetingtings.com Plus check out Check out their new video for Hang It Up.

Our current issue (Q304) features 25 covers (plus two bonus front pages) as we celebrate our 25th birthday. Each day we're giving you an exclusive extract and yesterday we had Laura Marling explaining how if Matt Berninger ever gets tired of doing it she'd gladly take over on vocals for The National. Plus keep an eye out for today's extract.
Qthemusic.com

Just as the music world rejoiced at the news of the Stone Roses' reformation, Westlife have announced they are to split after their forthcoming UK arena tour and greatest hits album. The Lord giveth and he taketh away...
Westlife.com

In yesterday's chart update, it's The Wanted versus Rihanna for the Number 1 single, while Noel Gallagher is looking good to beat Matt Cardle in the album race.
Theofficialcharts.com

Today's Track of the Day - Q Awards special - is Kasabian with Switchblade Smiles.

That's it for today - more tomorrow at the same time, around noon.

12:00 PM | 20/10/2011