Time — Al Pacino is reportedly adding another controversial role to his list of upcoming biopic projects: in addition to playing convicted murderer Phil Spector in a television movie about the music producer’s life and portraying gangster Aniello Dellacro... more info

Guardian Music — John Harris finds out why a magical band broke up"From the beginning," writes Tony Fletcher, "the Smiths sensed greatness, and to realise that greatness meant a refusal to accept confinement to the margins."The point is undeniably true, in so many wa... more info

Guardian Music — Brian Dillon on Scott Walker's manic pop stardom and long vanishing actHas there been a pop singer more flagrantly reticent than Scott Walker? Summon the YouTube spectre of him in his 1960s pomp and you'll discover a performer seemingly cold-stored a... more info

Guardian Music — Combining R&B with garage rock, this south London lot aspire to be the Motown Mary Chain or the Stax StoogesReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Somerset.The lineup: Carter Sharp (vocals, guitar), Jamie Bird (piano, vocals), Fil Ward (guitars, voc... more info

Guardian Music — The late Ramones singer's brother, Mickey Leigh, talks about the 10-year struggle to release a posthumous collection of his workWaiting outside a record company office in mid-town Manhattan, it's not hard to identify Mickey Leigh as he lopes down the... more info

Song, by Toad — The Philcast is named after the detestable little Tory weasel Phil Collins, as a result of this comment on this post by James who writes Appetite for Distraction.  So you can all blame him. In addition to Phil Collins, we have some Phil Spector, Phi... more info

Guardian Music — The pop singer, who died today, created powerful futuristic records that changed the course of music for everDonna Summer will be remembered as the queen of disco, but in fact her best records transformed not just dancefloors but the course of pop mu... more info

Guardian Music — New album The Only Place is an honest, personal reflection of how the duo's lives changed after Crazy For YouWhen Best Coast first got people's attention, in 2010, they smoked a lot of weed and talked about singer Bethany Cosentino's cat, Snacks, wit... more info

Impose Magazine — San Diego's TV Girl is the latest expectation demolisher on Himanshu's Greedhead label. Much like Oakland's Twin Steps, TV Girl craft meta-doo wop, as though a time traveler took a wormhole back to the 60's for the sole purpose of han... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Music mogul Phil Spector is suing City of Alhambra officials in California from behind bars - for allegedly destroying the home where he murdered actress Lana Clarkson almost a decade ago. more info