Radiohead, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg are to headline this year's Coachella festival in California.

Snoop Dogg is still set to headline this year's Coachella festival despite TMZ reporting that the Sweat rapper was arrested on Saturday (7th January) at the Sierra Blanca highway checkpoint after border patrol found a red prescription bottle containing under a half-ounce of weed on his tour bus.

Other acts on the line-up include Pulp, Florence + the Machine and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, as well as Swedish House Mafia, Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver and La Roux, while Swedish punks Refused will play their first major gig in 14 years.

The first Coachella festival took place back in 1999 and featured top artists such as Beck, the Chemical Brothers and Morrissey, with over 25,000 fans visiting the two-day event. The event takes place in the desert near Palm Springs, and for the first time will be held over two weekends in April, featuring identical line-ups.

Tickets are set to go on sale to the public in a few days. You can find out more information via the tickets page at: http://www.coachella.com/festival-passes/how-to-purchase

The full line-up for Coachella festival 2012 is as follows:

Day 1 - Friday 13 and 20 April

The Black Keys, Swedish House Mafia, Pulp, Refused, Arctic Monkeys, Mazzy Star, Afrojack, Explosions in the Sky, M83, Amon Tobin, Cat Power, Madness, Jimmy Cliff and Tim Armstrong, GIRLS, the Rapture, Madeon, M Ward, the Horrors, Frank Ocean, James Alesso, Sebastien, Yuck, Neon Indian, Dawes, Black Angels, Deathgrips, Wu Lyf, Breakbot, Atari Teenage Riot, Feed Me, Givers, Other Lives, Band of Skulls, R3hab, Wolfgang, Midnight Beast, EMA, Ximena Sarinana, Kendrick Lamar, The Dear Hunter, Honeyhoney, Hello Seahorse!, Sheepdogs, LA Riots

Day 2 - Saturday 14 and 21 April

Radiohead, Bon Iver, the Shins, David Guetta, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Kaskade, Miike Snow, Jeff Mangum, Sebastian Ingrosso, Andrew Bird, Feist, Firehose, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, St Vincent, Martin Solveig, Subfocus, SBTRKT, Flying Lotus, Manchester Orchestra, Kasabian, AWOL Nation, Azealia Banks, Squeeze, A$AP Rocky, Buzzcocks, Kaiser Chiefs, Destroyer, the Head and the Heart, Laura Marling, Tuneyards, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Black Lips, the Big Pink, Childish Gambino, the Vaccines, Zed's Dead, Grouplove, Jacques Lu Cont, We Were Promised, Jetpacks, Gary Clark Junior, Borgore, Dragonette, We Are Augustines, Mt Eden, Destructo, Suedehead, Keep Shelley in Athens, Pure Filth Sound

Day 3 - Sunday 15 and 22 April

Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg, At the Drive-In, Justice, Florence and the Machine, AVICII, La Roux, Beirut, the Weeknd, Girl Talk, The Hives, DJ Shadow, Calvin Harris, Nero, Wild Flag, Modeselektor, Dada Life, Porter Robinson, Santigold, Flux Pavilion, Dr P, Gotye, Seun Keti, Egypt 80, Beats Antique, Fitz and the Tantrums, Araabmuzik, Company Flow, Real Estate, Zed, Le Bucherettes, Greg Ginn, the Growlers, Noisia, Morgan Page, Gaslamp Killer, First Aid Kit, Oberhofer, Lissie, Thundercat, Metronomy, Wild Beasts, Housse de Racket, Fanfarlo, Spector, Gardens and Villa, Airplane Boys, Sleeper Agent

The Darkness has announced that they have finished recording nine songs for their comeback album out in the spring of 2012.

This will be the first album since 2005's 'One Way Ticket To Hell… And Back', and frontman Justin Hawkins revealed that the band are expecting to finish recording the remaining tracks by the end of January in time to release the album on his birthday, March 17.

While speaking to Billboard, Hawkins said “[We've got] nine of the required songs done, all finished, all sounding shining and good. We've got about two weeks of recording in January, and bits of it are already going off to be mixed even as we speak, so it's kind of nearly finished now.”

The original line-up of The Darkness reunited earlier this year for a round of live shows, including an electrifying performance at Download festival (a clip can be seen on NME.com).

Hawkins' brother Dan added that the band had been looking to return to the "more organic rock sounds" of their 2003 debut 'Permission To Land', which spawned hit singles 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' and 'Love Is Only A Feeling'.

"Rather than a big-name producer we decided to do it ourselves, as per the first record. We just wanted to develop the songs and make sure they were really spot-on and basically take a minimal approach across the board - apart from when we needed to go really over the top," he explained.

Material for the as-yet-untitled album was rehearsed in their Lowestoft hometown and recorded at Dan's home studio.

"Home is where the heart is," says Justin. "When you write songs, you need a grounding to set the stories in. There's a lot about small-town life. The album has songs about stuff that's happened to us in the town. [As for influences], it's AC/DC, Queen, Aerosmith, et cetera."

Little Mix beat off stiff competition from fellow finalist Marcus Collins to become the first band in the history of the ITV1 show to be crowned champions.

It is estimated punters will collect over £200,000 in winning bets after the girl group had been the favourites for several weeks, but it is the girl group themselves that are set to rake in millions with music tycoon Simon Cowell laying plans to turn them into the next Spice Girls.

The girls were very emotional, wiping away tears as they told of their delight after the decision at the packed Wembley Arena in North London.

The four girls won the public vote and beat hairdresser Marcus Collins, to the title. Gracious in defeat, Marcus said: "The girls really deserve it. They are amazing."

The girl band have already launched their attack on the charts with a rendition of Damian Rice’s “Cannonball”, which was chosen to be the winners track a few weeks ago. However, Little Mix weren't installed favourites to be Christmas Number One by bookies last night.

In recent years the X Factor winner has been the most fancied to be the festive top seller. But last night they were only made 9/4 second favourites behind the Military Wives track "Wherever you are".

Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes said: "Little Mix will serve it up to the Military Wives in the battle for the Christmas Number One race. We still reckon Gareth and the Wives are in pole position for now, however."

The X-Factor winner is set to release a cover of Damien Rice's 'Cannonball' as their debut single, according to the Sun.

According to the article, all four of the show’s remaining contestants have recorded a version of 'Cannonball', which one of three tracks being considered for release.

A source told the paper: "It's one of three songs being considered for release. The acts are still recording the different options but Cannonball has a good shot. After reworking Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' for Alexandra Burke then Biffy's track 'Many Of Horror' for Matt last year, it's the next step. It would be a safe bet to sell well in the run-up to Christmas."

This year’s “talent” competition ends on December 11, with the named winner releasing their debut single on that very same night. With the Christmas Number One being announced on Christmas Day itself this year, the single will need to secure two weeks at Number One to become this year’s Christmas chart topper.

When 'Cannonball' was released as a single back in 2004 it peaked in the charts at Number 19, but the track been in constant use ever since on television and film, and is considered as one of the iconic songs of the “noughties”.

After the success of 2008 winner Alexandra Burke’s covering of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' as her debut release, Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor's Joe McEldery to Christmas No 1 after a Facebook campaign against Simon Cowell's chart domination of the Christmas number 1.

X-Factor winner Matt Cardle covered Biffy Clyro's 'Many Of Horror' (renamed 'When We Collide') when he won the competition last year but there are further grumblings of another campaign to take back to top spot from the X-factor Christmas No 1 juggernaut.

Elbow have been chosen to record the BBC's soundtrack for the London 2012 Olympic Games, it has been announced.

The Salford five-piece who in 2008 won the Mercury Music Prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid, have been nominated three times, including this year for the album Build a Rocket Boys!, and are one of the most popular groups in the country right now.

The band, who released their fifth album earlier this year, have written and recorded a six-minute long track that will be used for BBC's coverage of the events next year.

The Elbow theme will be used by the BBC across its Olympic content. Further details of the track itself have yet to be released.

The track will follow in the footsteps of previous Olympic them

es including the Monkey theme by former Blur front man Damon Albarn's group Gorillaz for Beijing 2008.

Speaking to BBC News, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey described recording the track as "a real responsibility" and revealed: "We are knocked out to be involved and it's been quite a challenge.”

“We have feelings of real responsibility as we will be the soundtrack to so many images of personal sacrifice and endeavour while the nation roots for and celebrates with Team GB."

The BBC's Director of London 2012 Roger Mosey said Elbow

's piece had yet to be recorded. The first section of the song would be aired around the time of the beginning of the torch relay in May 2012, with the full track unveiled nearer to the Olympic Games opening ceremony later that year.

He continued by adding: "It should be just-about the most heard piece of music in 2012.”

Meanwhile, the band, who began playing together in 1990, have revealed that they are already working on their next album, though a planned release date is still unknown.