Arriving in the middle of Margaret Thatcher's first-term, this 1981 single reveals the desperation behind the shiny facade of London's newly swinging club landThe follow-up to a massive hit can go several ways, but the main possibilities include: 1) ... more info

The pop master gives us an exclusive peek to mark the release tomorrow of A Reality Tour, the live double album of his acclaimed 2003-4 world tour. more info

Guardian Music — Steve Rose digs out some of the most forgettable pop star film rolesMariah Carey's last attempt to conquer the movies, airbrushed autobiopic Glitter, served only to briefly unite the world in derision. So now she's back in a more humble role, as a so... more info

Live Daily — Peter Gabriel [ tickets ] will offer North American fans a glimpse of his new orchestral-only covers album, "Scratch My Back," in select cities this spring. The singer/songwriter has lined up dates in three locations, kicking off April 28 in Montr... more info

Stereogum — The concept behind Peter Gabriel's forthcoming indie rock covers project is an intriguing one: it's a song swap, Peter singing over orchestral reinterpretations of songs from a staggering list of artists -- Bon Iver, Lou Reed, the Mag Fields, Radi... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Digging up buried treasure from the depths of our collection. This week – Luke Turner on the post-punk obscurity that warmed the young Jarvis Cocker’s cockles. It was not being forced to wear lederhosen as a teenager that inspired Jarvis Cocke... more info

Rolling Stone — Photograph by Davida Nemeroff As Arcade Fire look forward to finishing the follow-up to 2007’s Neon Bible, Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt caught up with frontman Win Butler to look back at the decade and some of the band’s watershed moments, from ... more info

MTV.com News — Benefits for Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and the Asian tsunami similarly called on celebs to help raise money.By Jayson Rodriguez George Clooney Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images George Clooney and Wyclef Jean have been burning the midnight oil... more info

Guardian Music — 'Rock's not all carnal glamour. You spend a lot of time sitting around backstage, fiddling with bits of cheese'What got you started?Being brought up in a very unusual way. My mother was an artist and my father an obsessive classical music fan. We wer... more info

Guardian Music — He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading nextWhen influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the 1970s –... more info