NME — The singer says the media have him pegged as 'Mad Morrissey' more info

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Guardian Music — Featuring pig-skin drums and sampled oinks, this is one of the strangest albums you'll hear this year (or any other)We've covered avant-garde musician Matthew Herbert's One Pig project – in which he records the lifecycle of a pig from birth to slau... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Noel Gallagher has helped present the breakfast show on Absolute Radio, pouring forth wisdom on life, the universe and everything.Love him or loathe him, but Noel Gallagher makes for entertaining company. With his debut solo album almost upon us, the... more info

Guardian Music — Singer moves beyond Pulp to take a 'broad commissioning role' with upmarket publisherHome to 12 Nobel laureates and six Booker prize winners, venerable publisher Faber & Faber is now looking to bring a little Britpop magic to its list after hiring Pu... more info

ContactMusic — Singer Morrissey sent his nephew to a book launch to publicly rebut a claim the rocker used vocal-correction technology on his most recent album A special event was held in the British stars hometown of Manchester England on Friday 07Oct11 to mark th... more info

Altsounds — Following a sold out tour of Europe and the UK, Morrissey recently announced a North American tour. The show at Puebla, Mexico's Auditorio del Complejo Cultural Universitario has become the fastest selling pop concert in the city's history and his tw... more info

NME — Former Cribs man is on good terms with Andy Rourke and Morrissey more info

Guardian Music — Five book-loving boys who are carving a slither of a niche between tribal pop and post-Coldplay rockHometown: London.The lineup: Will Daunt (vocals, guitar), Iain Lock (bass), Dom Millard (keyboards), Henry Walton (guitar) and Guy Henderson (drums).T... more info

Guardian Music — In our regular visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – we reprint an early interview with instant indie darlings the Smiths, whose eight studio albums have just been released in rem... more info