The Newsroom — Embodied by the '80s karaoke party of Rock Of Ages, then wrapped in a bedazzled anarchy-symbol T-shirt and $100 skull bandana, the last lingering shreds of rock 'n' roll "rebellion" have long since been sanitized and repackaged as a Halloween costume... more info

Guardian Music — How David Bowie's 1972 television performance of Starman altered pop for everNear the end of When Ziggy Played Guitar, GQ editor Dylan Jones casually lets slip that he and the subject of his book have met each other "dozens of times". If the revelati... more info

ContactMusic — Former Roxy Music star Brian Eno has scooped a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Bafta Craft Award for his soundtrack to a gritty gang drama The rocker took home the prize on Sunday 13May12 for composing the music to U K TV series Top Boy..... more info

Guardian Music — The veteran New Romantics would not have been the choice of all music-lovers to showcase English culture to the world. But they have a gift for empty spectacle that suits this gigAll through the 80s, I hated Duran Duran, when for some they were the k... more info

Guardian Music — A lot of thought and planning, that's what. Allan Glen explains the clout behind Sunderland's progress towards becoming music's new Liverpool or ManchesterWhat is it that transforms an area's local musical landscape into a national credible scene? We... more info

Guardian Music — (Warp)Bristol songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nick Talbot's fourth album for Warp is a gorgeously hallucinatory affair, marking a slight shift towards late-80s/early-90s psychedelia. The Ghost … occasionally conjures up the Stone Roses's gentl... more info

Guardian Music — Electric Circus, EdinburghWhen UK indie bands decamp to Texas, they usually return with secondhand Nudie suits and thirdhand songs about communing with the ghost of Gram Parsons. Mystery Jets recorded their upcoming fourth album in a tumbledown Au... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Garage rockers Damn Vandals have released a new EP. The Beautiful Mind is filled with four raw borderline glam rock songs. The London band is still quite fond of old school echo, giving their songs a Seventies swagger that never gets old. Stand-... more info

Guardian Music — Wu Lyf, On tourRather than a band, the members of Manchester's Wu Lyf instead decided to start a cult. With a mixture of evocative symbols and slogans, independent status and a policy by which they don't have fans so much as subscribers to a clandest... more info

Discobelle.net — Epic edit by Norwegian man of epic edits Todd Terje, this disco dub of Roxy Music’s classic track from 1975 “Love Is The Drug” gives it a makeover in the form of a smashing club twist. The remix is being released on a limited edition deluxe 12�... more info