ContactMusic — Rockers Status Quo are swapping the stage for the screen after signing up to star in their first movie The British band fronted by Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt will play themselves in the 90-minute action adventure Bula Quo due to be released next ... more info

The Independent — Status Quo are swapping gold discs for the silver screen - by launching a movie career. more info

Guardian Music — As her Whitechapel Gallery retrospective opens, we look back at the artist's 1994 shopping centre dance-athon to a soundtrack ranging from Nirvana to the Bee Gees. Where would you throw some shapes in public today – and to what tunes?In Gillian Wea... more info

ContactMusic — Status Quo rocker Rick Parfitt has undergone a second operation following a pre-Christmas 11 heart procedure according to a U K report The singer underwent a routine operation to clear a blocked artery and fit a stent on 2 December 11 after a report.... more info

Guardian Music — The Workers put out new version of the classic Let's Work Together to capture the spirit of the trade union movementVillage People never managed a lineup like this: the Workers, a group that includes a firefighter, a probation officer, a midwife, an ... more info

ContactMusic — The Whos Roger Daltrey and Status Quo star Francis Rossi have come to the defence of Sir Cliff Richard after his music was banned from a U K radio stations playlist Executives at Britains new Absolute Radio 60s revealed this week begs14Nov11 the vet.... more info

NME - Radar — I don't think there's any other British band quite as wrapped up in their own aesthetic as Breton right now. The Kennington-based outfit – whose debut single 'Edward The Confessor' is out on Monday (November 21) – live and work in a disused bank... more info

Guardian Music — A very disparate collection of music nerds wax lyrical on their specific obsessions in this cheerful documentary about a backwater record shopA cheap and cheerful documentary about a properly endangered species: the record shop. The one featured here... more info

Guardian Music — Dr Gordon Downie is quite wrong to suggest (Letters, 5 October) that the modernism of Pierre Boulez's music was a threat to the aesthetic of the Status Quo. While the two met infrequently, often in airport lounges or motorway Little Chefs, there was ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — What is the DNA of a great rock 'n' roll band? This BBC series breaks this mythical beast down into its constituent parts - singer, guitarist, drummer as well as the shadowy 'other one', whose face we don't quite know but withou... more info