Frank Turner and The Pogues have been confirmed as having top slots at this year’s Strummer Of Love Festival.

The one-off festival will take place at a so far undisclosed location in Somerset, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Clash frontman’s passing.

Also confirmed to appear are KT Tunstall, Billy Bragg, Don Letts, Badly Drawn Boy, Slow Club and Fionn Regan. You can view the confirmed line-up below.

Frank Turner
The Pogues
Badly Drawn Boy
Roots Manuva
Slow Club
Billy Bragg
KT Tunstall
Alabama 3
Don Letts
Dreadzone
Basement Jaxx (DJ set)
David Rodigan
Kitty Daisy & Lewis
Dog Is Dead
Dub Pistols
Man Like Me
Mr C
Emmy The Great
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Bastille
The Whip
Joshua Moses
Fionn Regan
The Jim Jones Revue
Crazy P
Channel One Soundsystem
Talisman [REAL GONE says: Not the Jeff Scott Soto band]
Reverend and The Makers
The Validators
The Joker & The Thief
Fit Les
Hollie Cook
Time and Space Machine
Josh Kumra
Ska Levin
Kate Tempest
Yob
Atlantics
Luca C & Brigante
Guy Williams
Parma Violets
Matices Latinos
Dark Moon
The Supernovas
Beans on Toast
Benjamin Folke Thomas

Following their reformation, Pixies’ first major show was at the Coachella Festival in 2004. Four songs from that landmark show are now available as a free download.

By visiting this location, you can download Coachella live performances of ‘U Mass’, ‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’, ‘Hey’ and ‘Caribou’ for your listening pleasure in exchange for an email address.

Want the whole show? Not a problem! Frank and co are offering a download of the complete twenty-one song set for a bargain price of $3.99 (approx £2.50).

REAL GONE says: Other bands should seriously consider taking a leaf out of Pixies’ book. £2.50 for a download is more than fair. Too many bands are still attempting to charge in the region of £7.99 a throw for something that’s costing them ZERO to distribute. It’s the fan who’s paid for the download, the fan whose spent time downloading and the fan whose CD_Rs are getting used after all…

It has been announced that Britpop icons Blur are to release a career spanning, career defining box set this summer.

Entitled ’21’, the lavish set will contain twenty-one discs in total, and include remasters of their complete album catalogue alongside 135 rarities.  The set will also include three DVDs, 65 previously unreleased tracks and a special 7″ single.

At the time of writing, no other details are known.  No official tracklist or info on rarities has been confirmed.  Fans can expect this item to come with a fairly hefty price tag.

Inside Out Music have tentatively set a release date for Devin Townsend’s next album.

‘Epicloud’ could be released on September 24th, almost a year after Townsend completed his set of UK shows promoting four releases under the Devin Townsend Project banner. [Those shows are also set to be released this summer as a multi disc set entitled ‘By A Thread‘].

It is said that one of Devin’s previous collaborators Anneke Van Gisburgen appears on the new album and according to Townsend himself, the record is a celebration of his broad range of progressive rock, metal and new age music in one package. [A full tracklisting can be found here.]

The Soundgarden reunion has been greeted with extreme positivity from the band’s fan base. 2012 sees the release of the first Soundgarden album in a decade and a half, and this summer the band return to the UK for gigs at Hard Rock Calling and the Download Festival.

Can’t wait until the new album appears? You can have new music right now!
The first track released since the reformation, you can download Soundgarden’s new song ‘Live To Rise’ absolutely free from iTunes by clicking here!

The track comes from the soundtrack of the ‘Avengers Assemble’ movie, which also features other great rock tracks from Scott Weiland, Shinedown, Black Veil Brides, Five Finger Death Punch and Rise Against. It’s probably better than the movie…