The Playlist — We recently wondered about the state of Alfonso Cuarón's long-gestating children's film "A Boy And His Shoe" which was originally scheduled to shoot in 2009 for a mid-2010 release.London Evening Standard now reports that the film is still "forthco... more info

Guardian Music — A canny commissioning policy might just give Loops a chance of challenging the smug consensus on what music is fit for the discerning broadsheet readerFirst, a public-service announcement. Virtually tangible evidence of the extent to which the imperi... more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Music – Hollywood 1. Sade – Soldier of Love 2. Massive Attack – Heligoland 3. Hot Chip – One Life Stand 4. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM 5. Soft Pack – Soft Pack 6. Vampire Weekend – Contra 7. Yeasayer – Odd Blood 8. XX – XX 9. ... more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Music – Hollywood 1. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM 2. Beach House – Teen Dream 3. Spoon – Transference 4. XX – Self-Titled 5. Vampire Weekend – Contra 6. Soft Pack – Self-Titled 7. Dave Rawlings Machine – Friend of a Friend 8. Sur... more info

The Culture Of Me — In the upcoming issue of Flaunt magazine (number #107 for those of you counting), Charlotte Gainsbourg appears in a stunning photography spread care of photographer Kurt Iswarienko, for "the art issue". Gainsbourg, whose most recent contribution to p... more info

MTV.com News — Hope for Haiti Now album is #2 after selling more than 300,000 copies total.By Gil Kaufman Lady Antebellum's Need You Now Photo: Capitol Grammy-winning country act Lady Antebellum released their second album, Need You Now, at just the r... more info

ContactMusic — French actress/singer CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG is terrified of playing music on-stage - because she's convinced she'll never live up to her late father SERGE.Charlotte made... more info

Stereogum — In last weekend's excellent NY Times profile, Charlotte told the Grey Lady "I was trying desperately to write a couple of lines, and in a few a minutes [Beck] had a whole song. I suggested some of the song titles, wrote a line or two here and th... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Time interviews Charlotte Gainsbourg about her new album IRM, a collaboration with Beck. A lot of the songs on IRM are tinted with sadness and longing. Did filming Lars von Trier's graphic thriller Antichrist in between sessions with Beck influence..... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — January has been a fairly good month all in all. I've started up interviewing bands again, spending some quality time with Alexis Hot Chip, 4/7ths of Los Campesinos, Jack from These New Puritans, Delphic and Vivian Girls too. Gigs have been thin on t... more info