The Vinyl Villain — Lazy posting today. Here's a straight lift from wikipedia:-Originally formed in 1998 while on a break from The Wedding Present, Cinerama started as a duo of Gedge and his then-girlfriend Sally Murrell.The initial releases were a break from previous ... more info

Rock Sellout —   The Uk legends Gang Of Four recently played "Damaged Goods" recently on Later With Jools Holland. It looks like the boys still got it. Very cool to see.The Gang's debut single, "Damaged Goods" backed with "(Love Like) Anthrax" and "Armalite Rifle... more info

A former music studio set up by late broadcasting legend John Peel is bestowed with two prestigious English Heritage Blue Plaques. more info

BBC News - UK — A former music studio set up by late broadcasting legend John Peel is bestowed with two prestigious English Heritage Blue Plaques. more info

Altsounds — *Kats Karavan* is a splendid 4-CD set charting the history of John Peel’s iconoclastic shows spanning 5 decades from the late 1960s until his sad and untimely death in 2004. Champion of the obscure and unheard, he introduced whole generation... more info

NME — Peter Hook and members of OMD and The Membranes also at the unveiling more info

Altsounds — “If that’s not a freakout, then I’m a dutchman’ John Peel after airing the Heads’ first Peel session The HEADS (Paul Allen - guitars, vocals, keys, Wayne Maskell - Drums, H.O. Morgan - bassage, Simon Pr... more info

Thrash Hits — This week at Thrash Hits we’ve been listening a bit too much to Grind Madness at the BBC, the formcoming 118-track mammoth compilation of John Peel’s infamous Earache live sessions. And it got us thinking - what better way to open our series of l... more info

The Independent — Hailed by John Peel as the "best pop song of all time", "Teenage Kicks" was originally about masturbation, its creator, Feargal Sharkey, admitted yesterday, 31 years after its release. more info

Guardian Music — The Cribs have always been obsessed with the DIY culture surrounding music. They asked their favourite fanzine writer Karren Ablaze to write about how 'zines changed her lifeGrowing up in the boring suburbs of Manchester in the 1980s, I learnt to liv... more info