Guardian Music — LSD lover and Princess Di eulogiser Julian Cope was once almost sunshine pop's golden boy. Alexis Petridis rewinds to a superb debutThe 30th anniversary reissue of the Teardrop Explodes' Kilimanjaro recently spurred one heritage-rock magazine to ask ... more info

The Telegraph — The reclusive ex-Teardrop Explodes frontman is on the comeback trail. Sort of. He talks to Andrew Perry. more info

DrownedInSound — With a career encompassing four decades and currently half way through his fifty-third year on the planet, Julian Cope has been there, seen as much and probably done everything twice over... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Grizzly Bear, Patti Smith, and Laura Marling have been confirmed to headline the intimate Serpentine Sessions in (28, 29 Jun; 1 Jul, Hyde Park, W2, livenation.co.uk) …Marling has also been added to the bill of this year's Green Man Festival (20... more info

Guardian Music — It might be more than 30 years old, but krautrock, Germany's experimental music from the 1970s, still has a freshness that sixth-generation British indie bands can't matchIt began out of nothing, was given a joke name, and became the pop influence du... more info

Guardian Music — Punk's most celebrated wild child is to retire his signature move. It's the end of rock'n'roll as we know it ...In the last few years, Iggy Pop has wriggled out some of the strangest career moves since Julian Cope decided in 1984 that everyone would ... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Julian Cope called them "the Banana Splits of noise"; Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Hajime Koizumi and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise) kick out the jams on Chicago public access TV show Chic-A-Gogo in the late 1990's during a US Tour... more info

The Quietus — Julian Cope added to tip top weekend more info

The Vinyl Villain — Julian Cope managed to rack up 16 Top 75 hits in the UK singles charts between 1983 and 1986.OK, only World Shut Your Mouth in 1986 made the Top 20, but the fact remains that just about every single he released in his solo career had some sort of im... more info

Guardian Music — With their squalling and spacey sound, these Japanese noise merchants are Can meets Kraftwerk, Faust meets FugaziHometown: London.The lineup: Taigen (vocals, bass), Kohhei (guitar), Yuki (guitar), Mon-chan (drums).The background: They look amazing. F... more info