Guardian Music — Once a vehicle for like-minded stars, these days supergroups allow unlikely friends to indulge their experimental sideI have a tone on my phone that announces the arrival of a new indie supergroup, and it's bleeping a lot at the moment. Appearing to ... more info

Guardian Music — So Elton John thinks The X Factor is 'boring'? Hasn't he been following the successes of the stars Simon Cowell has nurtured?Lost in Showbiz knew that Piers Morgan's interview with Simon Cowell was going to be good – after all, nothing says ruthles... more info

Guardian Music — The band's A&R man was a fan long before he began working with Guy Garvey and co. Here, Jim Chancellor explains why artists still need labels (but not as much as labels need artists)When Jim Chancellor of Fiction Records was presented with the Music ... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - The Snow Patrol frontman will join the likes of Brett Anderson and Peter Hook... more info

Guardian Music — Fans haven't given up on rock, despite the decline in sales. We're just waiting for the band that'll make the next leap forwardFew things have taken a battering quite like rock this week. After Music Week announced on Monday that the percentage of ro... more info

Pop Bytes — † FROM DJ PAUL V. Happy Thanksgiving, all you PopByters! Today let's give thanks to the always-creative Mashup-Germany (aka Ben Stilller). I'm always impressed with multi-artist mashes, and this one features Mike Posner, Puff Daddy feat... more info

NME — Radiohead, Snow Patrol and Alicia Keys also feature in the Top 10 list more info

Guardian Music — (Island)Is there something in the water over in the land of MOR bands? First Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody helms a country side project; now it's the turn of Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin. Mt Desolation have their alt-country inflections down ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tired Pony - spearheaded by Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck - have just released their debut album, The Place We Ran From on Mom + Pop Records today. Featuring the talents of Belle and Sebastian's Richard Colburn,... more info

Altsounds — Supergroup *Tired Pony* are performing on *the Late Show with David Letterman *tonight, Thursday, September 30 at 11:35 PM ET/PT. They will be performing their track *Dead American Writers. *The band, spearheaded by *Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody*, is... more info