Gigwise — Festival announces more acts... more info

Guardian Music — Michel Houllebecq isn't the first author to turn songwriter - but he may be the first to do it wellSurprisingly for a writer whose latest literary works generally seem to cause a media kerfuffle in his native France and beyond, Michel Houellebecq's n... more info

NME — BBC Radio 4 programme has featured the likes of Morrissey and Paul McCartney more info

NME — The two tunes are coming out as B-sides more info

Gigwise — As part of re-release packages... more info

The Vinyl Villain — And I'm cheating, by reproducing in its entirety, a posting from September 2009, with Part 32 of the long-running series that featured all the Morrissey solo singles.My only pathetic excuse for being so lazy is that it does offer newer readers the op... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I could be wrong but I think it was John Spears, in his book on the American slave trade, who wondered (in a rhetorical way, clearly) if there was anything new to be said about great historical events, such as the slave trade, where so much ink and p... more info

ContactMusic — Former THE SMITHS songwriters MORRISSEY and JOHNNY MARR have joined forces once more - to support a leading animal rights campaign group.The musicians, who had a highly public bust-up after the cult British band split in 1987, have spoken out against... more info

The Vinyl Villain — A quite amazing song in many ways:-mp3 : The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves When so many songs written and sung by men boast of sexual conquests, here was Morrissey admitting that he's had disasters....It's a tale of a nightmare of a rendez-vous ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Beady Eye were born on August 28, 2009, the night Oasis died. Backstage at Paris’s annual Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam Gallagher, bedeviling each other since childhood, entered into what would prove their final altercation (involving the s... more info