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Body and Soul,” Amy Winehouse’s final recording, a duet with her hero Tony Bennett, will be released by Columbia Records in September in aid of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. The song was recorded in March of this year at Abbey Road Studios in London for Tony Bennett’s upcoming Duets II album.

The Foundation will be set up by her family to help a number of charities connected with children and young people.

Amy’s father, Mitch Winehouse said, “We wanted to make a positive difference and help a range of causes close to Amy’s heart.  This could include help for children in trouble, suffering from health problems, children’s hospices and more.”

Kings Of Leon have urged Caleb Followill to enter rehab to deal with his “out of control” drinking following the frontman’s onstage meltdown in Dallas on Saturday (July 30), according to a report.

The Tennessee band cancelled the remaining dates of their North American tour yesterday (August 1), citing Followill’s “vocal issues and exhaustion”. At the aborted show the singer told fans he was heading backstage to vomit and grab another beer but failed to return for a promised three-song end to the gig.

Now a report in US Weekly has suggested that Followill’s bandmates are concerned that he is drinking “like a a fish”. (read more via Kings Of Leon ‘urge Caleb Followill to go to rehab’ | News | NME.COM)

Kings of Leon have canceled the remainder of their summer tour in the wake of a disastrous show in Dallas on Friday that was cut short after lead singer Caleb Followill left the stage to vomit. According to the Kings’ representative, Followill has been “suffering from vocal issues and exhaustion,” and the band have opted to scrap the tour rather than play subpar gigs for their fans.

Due to the Kings’ touring commitments abroad, their U.S. shows will not rescheduled. Tickets for those gigs will be refunded at point of purchase, or automatically refunded if ordered online. The band will head back out on tour on September 28th with a show at the Rogers Center in Vancouver, a show originally scheduled for September 14th.

Though the band’s official line regarding Caleb Followill’s meltdown in Dallas is attributed to exhaustion, comments from his brothers at the concert and on Twitter suggest that he may be dealing with a bigger issue. When apologizing on Twitter, bassist Jared Followill wrote “there are internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be address” and “I know you guys aren’t stupid. I can’t lie. There are problems in our band bigger than not drinking enough Gatorade.” (via Kings of Leon Cancel U.S. Tour | Rolling Stone Music)

The Strokes‘ debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help celebrate this 10th Anniversary, Stereogum asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection, STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It, is a free tribute album!

The Strokes maybe never topped Is This It, but you can’t blame them for that. Part of the record’s appeal is also the youthfulness of it, something you can’t replicate even a year later. That said, they definitely found a way to bottle it on the album itself: If you listen to it now, 10 years later, it sounds as fresh (and vintage) as ever. Which is maybe why its sound continues to surface in 2011 among both shaggy rock groups, yeah, but also kids with keyboards in their bedrooms and folks wearing sunglasses behind their laptops.(Download via Stereogum Presents… STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It - Stereogum)