Guardian Music — The Guardian reader commonly known as llamalpaca gives us his choices from last week's threadThis week's playlist has been selected by llamalpaca.Biblical, spiritual, mysterious and sometimes downright unbelievable: miracles have been two a penny thi... more info

ContactMusic — Actor Samuel L Jackson will channel his tough guy persona to film an expletive-ridden political advertisement urging his fellow Americans to vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming U S presidential election The Pulp Fiction star who is known for his fr... more info

ContactMusic — Actress Rashida Jones has apologised for making controversial comments about Hollywood veteran John Travolta The Pulp Fiction star has this year 12 faced lurid allegations from three masseurs that he exposed himself during a rub-down... more info

Guardian Music — Bands including Pulp, Weezer and Dinosaur Jr provide the entertainment on rock cruises that offer warm beds, good food – and no rainImagine a music festival where the evening ends not in a soggy sleeping bag but with crisp white bed linen, where qu... more info

Guardian Music — Activists hope pop singer, due to sing in Moscow, will publicly express support for trio jailed after performing a 'punk prayer'Campaigners are hoping that pop superstar Madonna will publicly express her support for three imprisoned members of the fe... more info

ContactMusic — Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has loaned a Damien Hirst painting from his private collection to a gallery in his native Sheffield England in a bid to support future arts funding Officials at The Graves Gallery were recently forced to cut staff after lo... more info

KEXP Seattle — For those who didn’t get their Coachella fix this year (or didn’t get tickets to next year’s fest), festival promoter Goldenvoice has a solution: the S.S. Coachella. Departing from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in December, the ship sails to the Bah... more info

ContactMusic — Coachella has firmly established itself as the dominating music festival in the Usa something cemented this year with the now infamous appearance of the Tupac Hologram proving that if a new revolution is going to happen in music you can bet that itll... more info

411 Mania — Happening in December... more info

Perez Hilton — This is Nuts! No, really. This is a story about Nuts. KEEP UP! Lionsgate has just cast Amanda Plummer as District 3 champ, Wiress aka "Nuts" in the Hunger Games sequel!! You may recognize Plummer from Pulp Fiction, but she is better known as a stage ... more info