ContactMusic — Funk legend Nile Rodgers is hoping to bounce back from cancer with a new Daft Punk album The superproducer and former Chic star is in talks to work with the European dance music duo on a new album If the plan comes together it will be Rodgers fir... more info

Guardian Music — Other acts to play the family-friendly festival include Kool and the Gang, Chic and Adam AntThe first acts for this year's Camp Bestival have been announced, with Hot Chip headlining a festival for the first time. The following night will see a celeb... more info

Guardian Music — Chic's creative genius can take heart looking back over a life that wouldn't have worked out very well at all but for music"This ain't no disco," sang Talking Heads on their 1979 track Life During Wartime, and lots of people at the time seemed to agr... more info

ContactMusic — Chic star Nile Rodgers is eyeing a move to Broadway after penning a musical The veteran guitarist and music producer has spent six years working on the stage show titled Double Time and hes aiming to take it to New Yorks famed theatre district... more info

Guardian Music — It has been a bumper year for memoirs, from Shaun Ryder to Nile RodgersWhen looking back on a year of music books that themselves tend to look back, it makes sense to start with Simon Reynolds's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Fa... more info

Guardian Music — From Beethoven's letters to Bob Dylan's Chronicles, the musician chooses books that reveal the private lives behind the public melodiesSongwriter, arranger, producer and guitarist Nile Rodgers is one of the most influential pop musicians of the last ... more info

Guardian Music — The most mortifying, brilliant moment in the whole of Jane Austen is the bit in Emma where Mr Knightley reproaches the heroine for humiliating kind, silly, elderly Miss Bates. "It was badly done, indeed!" he tells her, and hot tears of shame spring t... more info

Guardian Music — The Chic co-founder and legendary producer's life story is a fascinating romp through the great days of disco, New York, and American counter-culture"There are no second acts in American lives," said F Scott Fitzgerald. Clearly, Nile Rodgers did not ... more info

Guardian Music — The leadman of Chic and hugely successful music producer on singing along to Elvis in little blue suede shoes, dropping acid with Timothy Leary and how Roxy Music led to ChicTHE FIRST SONG THAT MEANT SOMETHING TO ME PERSONALLY"Blue Suede Shoes", Elvi... more info

Guardian Music — In this week's podcast we celebrate the start of the Christmas publishing season with a look at the celebrity titles in contention for the top spot on this year's bestseller lists. And we track down two celebs who have actually written their books t... more info