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Roger Waters, along with Jack Johnson, will headline the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 25-27 in Indio, Calif. Also scheduled to perform are the Verve, Kraftwerk, Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Cafe Tacuba and the Raconteurs. Visit this Billboard article to see the full lineup and [...]

David Gilmour has donated signed proofs of DVD-related artwork to be auctioned on eBay, today, Monday November 19th, in support of “Crisis”, the UK charity for the homeless. Most of the items are “works in progress” by designer Steve Knee of Blade Design, including alternative designs for the Remember That Night cover and some poster [...]

High-def music channel Rave HD will premiere David Gilmour: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, on November 22nd. The ninety-minute concert shot in 2006 will feature solo and Pink Floyd material. Visit their website to view a promotional video.

This book will most surely be on many Christmas lists this holiday season. Written by David Gilmour’s guitar tech, “The Black Strat” tells the story of Gilmour’s iconic black guitar, bought off the shelf at Manny’s music store, New York, in 1970. The book format is large-scale paperback in a high-gloss cover, and its 121 [...]

GHS, maker of fine guitar strings, will produce a signature series with David Gilmour – both sets use the strings actually used by David on his Gibson Les Paul and Fender Stratocaster. Gilmour has played GHS strings since ’79 when working on The Wall, but he’s used non-standard gauges that until now were not available [...]

David Gilmour’s The Blog has won the BT Digital Music Award for Best Music Blog. View all the winners at the official website.

ContactMusic.com reports that: David Gilmour has no plans to regroup with his Pink Floyd bandmates again, despite getting fans’ hopes up when the legendary rockers reunited for a one-off Live 8 performance in 2005. The guitarist’s infamous rift with bandmate Roger Waters caused the rockers to split in the 1980s, but Gilmour has dismissed speculation [...]