Seems like Tom Waits just did something similar, but now Led Zeppelin are in the midst of a mysterious countdown on Facebook. The band on Saturday posted the word “Five” in the stylized typeface of their fourth album, garnering nearly 37,000 “likes.” Yesterday, they followed with “Four.”
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/led-zeppelin-begin-mysterious-countdown-on-facebook-20120910#ixzz26GkBIZaP
Adele is reported to have visited Abbey Road Studios to record a song for the latest James Bond film, Skyfall.
According to The Sun, the singer visited London’s Abbey Road Studios, where the soundtrack is being recorded, earlier this month.
Read more: http://www.nme.com/news/adele/66064

I recently listened to the first single from the new Cat Power album with some fellow fans, and the room was deeply divided. Some thought the song was fabulous, but others were startled and upset — which I could understand, sort of. Chan Marshall’s songs generally speak to pain and trauma with a hushed and intimate musical vocabulary. But this song, “Ruin,” was different — not just a rock ‘n’ roll song, but one you might even want to dance to.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/06/160676033/cat-power-rips-it-up-starts-again