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

Guardian Music — The 13th Floor Elevators frontman will return with his first album of original songs in more than a decade. And he's hired Austin indie-rockers Okkervil River as his backing band13th Floor Elevators' Roky Erickson will return with his first album of ... 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 — 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

Guardian Music — A series of souvenir stamps has been issued by the Royal Mail celebrating such iconic British albums as Let It Bleed, London Calling and, er, A Rush of Blood to the Head?Enemies of Coldplay might not yet be able to send the band on a one-way trip to ... more info

MTV.com News — Album art from Pink Floyd, Blur and David Bowie also included.By James Montgomery Coldplay's new British stamps Photo: Royal Mail On Thursday (January 7), the U.K.'s Royal Mail unveiled a series of 10 new stamps, honoring the most iconic a... more info

The Vinyl Villain — So I'm guessing that Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands were messing around in the studio of a day, twiddling and fiddling with their knobs in an effort to create some classic new sounds. They've gone through their extensive list of contacts for folk to sing... more info

Guardian Music — This French DJ and producer is being hailed as a bona fide eclectic warrior, capable of flitting wildly between stylesHometown: London.The lineup: Julian Brambilla.The background: They've been great, haven't they, this year's Guardian Albums of 2009?... more info

Guardian Music — Cowell locks horns with weekly mag and responds to musicians' criticism of The X FactorIn a wheeze that may come to be ranked up there with former editor Steve Sutherland's August 1995 cover boosting the Blur v Oasis showdown, the NME tomorrow splash... 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