DrownedInSound — Every year we marvel when Spain's Primavera Sound announce their line-up, and many of us Brits flock to Barcelona to enjoy all that is has to offer during late May. Well, the festival have just confirmed the first batch of acts who will play in 2012.... more info

Guardian Music — Like the walking dead, Ozzy is back with the original members of Black Sabbath to play the 10th anniversary of Download (8-10 Jun, Donington Park) along with Metallica, who'll perform their classic Black Album …Slayer will rip through their own Rei... more info

Gigwise — Supported by the likes of Melvins, Mudhoney and Yuck during May 2012... more info

NME — Mudhoney, Yuck and Sleep are also confirmed for the event more info

Guardian Music — As several high-profile music docs hit our screens, tell us which is best and win a copy of 1991: The Year Punk Broke2011 is proving to be a good year for music documentaries. Last month saw the UK release of Living in the Material World, Martin Scor... more info

NME — Seattle pioneer also plays down his own role in grunge scene more info

ContactMusic — Late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain dreamed of opening his own petting zoo, according to a new book about the history of grunge. Journalist Mark Yarm gathered anecdotes about Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Mudhoney, among others, for his tome Everybody Loves O... more info

NME — Mudhoney and Soundgarden also collaborated with Eddie Vedder and co. more info

Guardian Music — Kurt Cobain loved Abba, wasn't from Seattle and didn't invent grunge. Everett True, the man who pushed the singer's wheelchair on stage for his last UK show, sets the record straightI was first flown out to Seattle at the start of 1989. I'd been aske... more info

KEXP Seattle — One of the first grunge bands, Green River, broke up in 1987. Two of its members, Mark Arm and Steve Turner, were looking for new musical projects and both ended up doing a stint in the improvisational rock group The Thrown-Ups.  They also experimen... more info