Guardian Music — Tokyo, LincolnAfter Happy Mondays and Black Grape "reunions" that lacked most of the personnel, the autobiography, and eating crocodile penis in the Celebrity jungle, you wonder what will constitute Shaun Ryder's next attempt to restore his former gl... more info

Stereogum — Rock bands with mixtapes: It’s almost too perfect of an idea, like rock bands with hypemen, and it’s amazing that it doesn’t happen more often. Actually, it pretty much never happens. Hypemen are rare, too, but there’s at least a historical p... more info

NME — Happy Mondays singer will start his quest in native Manchester more info

ContactMusic — Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has landed a new TV job fronting a show which searches for Ufos The star is best known for his drug-fuelled wild days in the British band but has been hiding a secret obsession with extra-terrestrials He will now... more info

Guardian Music — Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlistsQuite apart from the quality of their music, the Stone Roses had a... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Andy Capper gets spellbound by a song that breaks his heartIf the last album I paid tribute to in the Guardian was the sound of my life running away from a small North West town, then this is the ... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — NME's John Doran reviews this week's singles Ronika - 'Only Only' Before the Happy Mondays ruined everything by making dance music that sounded like a tramp with a loudspeaker having a nervous breakdown, club music in the mid-’80s was brilliant. T... more info

Totally Fuzzy — BBC Series investigating what makes the perfect rock 'n' roll band. Meet the band's secret weapon: 'the other one'. They might play bass; maybe keyboards; sometimes it's not clear what they do at all. Underestimate them with... more info

NME — Singer says maraca dancer was more obessed with her bodyguard more info

Gigwise — Shaun Ryder reveals... more info