NME - The Video Blog — It's shaping up to be a good year for music movies. Ian Dury biopic Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll is picking up slavering reviews, and tonight (January 14) sees the premier of Blur flick No Distance Left To Run. Potentially most exciting of all, t... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Creation Records boss Alan McGee is no stranger to a spot of self-mythology. Now it looks like his ten-years-defunct indie label -- which launched Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and Oasis (pictured) onto an unsuspecting world -- is to have its b... more info

Guardian Music — Recalling the ethereal vocals of My Bloody Valentine, there Isn't Anything wrong with this female duo's blissed-out drone-popHometown: Echo Park, Los Angeles.The lineup: Nico Turner (vocals, guitar) and Jenean Farris (vocals, keyboards).The backgroun... more info

Guardian Music — Upside Down charts drink and drug-fuelled years of label that signed Oasis, Primal Scream and My Bloody ValentineWhen an unsigned Noel Gallagher took the train from Manchester to meet the bosses of Creation records in 1993, he had little idea what to... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Paul Weller has said that he believes that Oasis splitting has been a good thing – and told NME.COM that he would be happy to work with both Noel and Liam Gallagher.The Jam's former frontman said that he liked both the Gallaghers "equally" and... more info

Perfect Porridge — Athens based psych-shoegaze-indie-pop band Twin Tigers sent me an advance copy of their Grey Waves LP, and I’m really enjoying it. It’s not whiny shoegaze stuff. This is gritty, dirty indie stuff ala My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur, Jr. and that on... more info

Guardian Music — (Nettwerk)With only four albums in two decades – two of them with the much-acclaimed Mazzy Star – and a handful of appearances with Massive Attack and the Chemical Brothers, Hope Sandoval isn't one to rush things or bow to conventional ... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Monday: The Slits, The Sundelles, + Sisters @ Highline Ballroom 7pm $15 [tix]Amid all the hoopla surrounding the reunions of bands like Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, The Vaselines, Mission of Burma, etc., etc., some of reunions have been los... more info

Guardian Music — Butlins, MineheadA holiday camp in the December drizzle is not the traditional festival setting, but All Tomorrow's Parties has never fitted in the mainstream. Since its beginnings as a Belle and Sebastian-led weekender 10 years ago, the brand has ex... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — There’s no question the digital era of music has ignited many music fans’ interest in independent record labels, as many influential and historic labels are now getting the book/documentary/box set celebration. Seminal British indie lab... more info