NME — Bands join Jarvis Cocker and Phoenix at the event more info

All About Jazz — Over the years, London's annual Meltown festival has had an impressive list of guest curators. They include Elvis Costello, Scott Walker, John Peel, Patti Smith, Jarvis Cocker, Lee Perry and Robert Wyatt. This June's festival will break new ground... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz genius Ornette Coleman will curate this year's Meltdown Festival, and it's set to be even more eclectic than usual. Neil Spencer spoke to himThe annual musical binge that is Southbank's Meltdown Festival has taken on a decidedly chi-chi quality... more info

NME — Jarvis Cocker has confirmed a special charity show in Manchester. more info

NME — Celebrities including Jarvis Cocker, Goldfrapp and Ricky Gervais have all donated signed underwear for a charity auction. more info

Said the Gramophone — Serge Gainsbourg - "Melody". The next morning, Serge went out to breakfast with his friend Etienne. They ate eggs benedict with steak knives, yolks running. Serge used his hands to depict the Rolls-Royce, the bicycle, the slow way that they colli... more info

Idolator — I'm hoping to keep the "nyah, I was there and you weren't" reportage from this year's South By Southwest Festival to a minimum, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that yesterday I attended Jarvis Cocker's "Saying The Unsayable," the Pulp frontman'... more info

NME — Jarvis Cocker performed an acoustic version of his Pulp hit and praised the song-writing techniques of David Bowie and Leonard Cohen during his lecture on the role of lyrics in song writing at the South by Southwest Festival today (March 18). more info

NME — Echo And The Bunnymen, Jarvis Cocker Glasvegas, Late Of The Pier and The Bronx are among the acts who are set to play live on the first day of the South By Southwest festival which kicks off in Austin, Texas today (March 18). more info

NME — Jarvis Cocker is to headline this year's http://www.secretgardenparty.com festival, it has been announced. more info