The Glastonbury Festival marks its 40^th anniversary in 2010, and organizers are planning to book 40 bands from the past 40 years to play live performances at the event. Radiohead, Blur, PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, The Cure and Massive Attack are just a few of the thousands of artists that have graced “Glasto’s” stages.

Michael Eavis founded the event in 1970 on his dairy farm near Pilton, Somerset. His daughter Emily said they were both planning the celebration next year, and told the BBC:

“We want to have a band from every year on the Pyramid Stage.”

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We’ve got a lot of new music news for you this Wednesday afternoon. Yeasayer and Hot Chip have released new tracks and PJ Harvey and Animal Collective have both announced new tours.

• Yeasayer has released a new track called “Tightrope.” The track will be part of the compilation disc “Dark Was The Night” that’s expected to be released mid-February. You can check out the track for yourself here.
• Hot Chip has released a new track called “Transmission.” The track is expected to be released mid-February as part of their new album Heroes. Check it out for yourself here.

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