Neil Young will release his new album, 'Le Noise', on September 27.

The album features eight new songs and was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Daniel Lanois [Bob Dylan, U2].

Lanois has claimed that the pair have "taken the acoustic guitar to a new level", reports Billboard.com.

this weekend?? Well, it all starts with me tomorrow night at McDonald's in Stockbridge, I'm meetin up with NASCAR drive, Jamie McMurray, hangin out...

Eric Clapton says when most musicians try and go forward with their new music, he has gone in the opposite direction. He has gone back in time.

'When I look for what I am going to listen to I go backwards. I am always going the other way,' he says in a video at his website. 'Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way'. I am going in the other direction. I want to find the oldest thing to do.'

Slash is preparing to go solo in his love life.

Court records show the guitarist filed for divorce Monday (Aug. 30) from his wife of nearly nine years.

The filing states Slash - his real name is Saul Hudson - and his wife Perla separated in July and cites irreconcilable differences for the split.

At a Wednesday night Stone Temple Pilots concert in Cincinnati, STP lead singer and former Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland took a nasty spill during the opening of the group's set.

While the group was performing "Crackerman," Weiland tripped and fell off the stage. Security reportedly rushed to his aid but Weiland got right back onstage and continued the song without missing a beat. He refused all medical attention.

Bob Dylan will release the 9th edition of his bootleg series in October.

'The Bootleg Series Volume 9 ' The Witmark Demos' features the first official release of 47 Dylan tracks recorded as demos for this first music publisher Leeds Music in 1962 and for his second M. Witmark & Sons between 1962 and 1964.

The collection features early versions of now classics 'Mr Tambourine Man', 'Blowin In The Wind' and 'The Times They Are A-Changing', all recorded before Dylan turned 24 years old.

 and I have to say I'm a lil nervous...not that I have much to hide ;) but, being hypnotised in front of hundreds of people I don't know, is a lil... 

U2's first-ever concert in Russia began on a sour note. Before the show, which happened at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, police arrested Amnesty International activists who were handing out leaflets, and forced out volunteers for other non-profits, including Greenpeace Russia and U2's own ONE Campaign Against AIDS.

Ted Nugent has some "stone cold motherf***king songs" ready to go when he takes his band into the studio later this year to start working on his first new studio album since 2007's "Love Grenade."

Nugent tells Billboard.com that he has "well over a dozen" tracks written and "eight or nine that I [i]have[/i] to capture on tape as soon as possible," including a couple that were demoed in Waco, Texas, prior to his current concert tour. The tour's title -- "Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead" -- will also be the title track of the album, which Nugent describes as "just a roustabout, a classic Motor City upheaval. You can hear my Mitch Ryder influences in there right away."

Other songs Nugent has in place include a "grinder" called "I Love My Barbecue" and "I Still Believe," which he likens to 1975's "Motor City Madhouse." And he compares "Never Stop Dreaming" to the Rascal's "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" and says it was inspired by his hunting trips with terminally ill youth.

The London home of composer George Frideric Handel is holding an exhibition about its other famous resident -- Jimi Hendrix.

The groundbreaking guitarist lived during the late 1960s in an apartment in the city's Mayfair area, honing his sound and building his reputation through incendiary live shows.

Handel lived next door in the 18th century, and Hendrix's former home is now part of the Handel House Museum.