Stereogum — Here’s the promised “alternative” to the various Haiti relief charity singles released since that country was torn asunder. Even though the front page news has shifted on to how the womens’ skiing team are actually jealous about the amount of... more info

DrownedInSound — London's South Bank Centre have announced that Richard Thompson will be the Artistic Director for 2010's Meltdown Festival, following in the pretty substantial footsteps of Ornette Coleman, Massive Attack, Lee Perry, Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave, amon... more info

The Gollum actor is pairing up with Nick Cave to produce a motion capture update of classic German musical The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill... more info

ContactMusic — Goth-rocker NICK CAVE is to rework BERTOLD BRECHT and KURT WEILL's THREEPENNY OPERA for LORD OF THE RINGS star ANDY SERKIS' remake.The 1928 project is to be reimagined as... more info

The Playlist — April Fools! Hold on, it's mid-February, which presumably makes this news story, one of the more unexpected ones of the year, genuine, and it's fairly enticing. Andy Serkis is in Berlin, plugging his Ian Dury biopic "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," and r... more info

Guardian Music — Weighing up true love against the cold truth of mortality – the amorous and the anatomical – is a surprisingly effective wooing techniqueA friend of mine recently lent me a copy of some collected short stories written by the American wr... more info

NME - The Video Blog — Last week’s news that Shane MacGowan is getting together a motley crew of musicians (including Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Glen Matlock and Johnny Depp) for a charity single in aid of Haiti was music to my ears for a mul... more info

NME — Mick Jones-produced track also features Chrissie Hynde, Glen Matlock and Paloma Faith more info

DrownedInSound — Shane MacGowan has rounded up a motley crew including Nick Cave, Mick Jones and Bobby Gillespie to record a cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ ‘I Put A Spell On You’. The track will be released as a charity single to raise mon... more info

Stereogum — Like I said the other day, in times like these we judge not the artists who are joining to make whatever difference they can in reconstructing Haiti via their art, we just celebrate that it's happening. But Susan Boyle, Miley Cyrus, & James Blunt ... more info