NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, May 5

11:11 AM GMT 05/05/2009

Noel Gallagher has revealed that all is not well on Oasis's current tour of South America.

Posting on the official Oasis site, the band's head-honcho wrote: "We speak at bad times for the Oasis tour. Bad times. We are a rudderless ship at the minute. And there's a fuckin' shit-storm on the horizon. I guess all will be revealed in due course. Strange atmosphere. I wouldn't mind but we're in South America! Playing massive stadiums and there's a bit too much hrmph-ing going on for my liking. Shame really."

He also revealed the name of a new song leaked online last month. "That new song that appeared on your internet is called If I Had A Gun..," said Gallagher. "It's not quite finished yet but it was quite nice to hear that someone had taped it. Been doing a few new ones lately. They sound quite epic."

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R.E.M. are to release a 25th Anniversary Edition of Reckoning.

The band's second album originally appeared in 1984. This new remastered deluxe edition will hit shelves in the US on June 23.

A second disc will feature unreleased footage of the band performing at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom on July 7, 1984.

A UK release date has not yet been confirmed.

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The Levon Helm Band, Canned Heat, Mountain, Ten Years After and Country Joe McDonald are just some of the performers set to appear at a concert marking the 40th anniversary of the first Woodstock festival.

They will all take the stage at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on August 15. The venue was built on the site of original festival in Upstate New York.

For more information on the Heroes of Woodstock event, head over HERE.

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Bob Dylan is sitting pretty at the top of the UK charts this week.

Together Through Life, his 33rd studio album, raced to the Number 1 spot as Dylan completed the current leg of his European tour.

It is his first UK Number 1 since New Morning topped the charts in 1970.

You can read MOJO's official review of the album HERE.

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And finally...Happy Birthday Ian McCulloch! Echo & The Bunnymen's frontman is 50 today. Here are the band with Do It Clean...

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:11 AM GMT 05/05/2009

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