CNN Showbiz — "The Searchers" may be the greatest movie Western, and that reputation has only grown since its 1956 premiere. more info

CNN Showbiz — Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. "The Searchers," "Groundhog Day," "Breathless," "King Kong," "Casino Royale," "Touch of Evil," "Caddyshack," "Mean Streets," "The Big Lebowski" — the Academy has a long hist... more info

ContactMusic — The Searchers star Harry Carey, Jr. has died, aged 91.A regular in director John Ford's westerns, the actor passed away of natural causes in Santa... more info

Guardian Music — After establishing his reputation as a playwright, Martin McDonagh made a remarkably confident movie debut in 2004 directing the Oscar-winning, half-hour Six Shooter, set on a train in his native Ireland, where grieving widower Brendan Gleeson is con... more info

Time — Earlier this year, when the British Film Institute’s monthly magazine Sight & Sound announced the results of its most recent “greatest films of all time” poll — a once-every-decade exercise that Roger Ebert has called the only poll taken seri... more info

Guardian Music — Singer famous for 1979 hit Bustin' Loose was a hugely influential figure on the Washington DC music sceneChuck Brown, leader of Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, who was widely known as "The Godfather of go-go", has died aged 75.The singer is perha... more info

Guardian Music — Go-go didn't fly on record for a simple reason: it was made to be heard in a packed, sweaty club. Preferably in Washington DCLast week's news that Trouble Funk were to sue the Beastie Boys over unlicensed samples might have had a fair few Beasties fa... more info

Impose Magazine — Today NNA Tapes dropped a batch (batch dropping! the new way to release in 2012!) and the first one to tumble out onto my speakers was the new Dolphins Into the Future. Lieven Martens, the ebbulient Belgian behind the project, has been steadily dropp... more info

Guardian Music — The man who wrote the Neighbours theme had a previous life as a 60s songwriter, when this was among his biggest hitsTony Hatch was the Simon Cowell of his day: a pop impresario with a lucrative role as resident Bad Cop on the panel of the must-watch ... more info

Guardian Music — New digital stations to be fronted by Pete Mitchell and Richard SkinnerAbsolute Radio is to turn the dial back to the 1960s and 1970s with two new digital radio stations fronted by Pete Mitchell and Richard Skinner.Absolute Radio 60s will launch on 2... more info