MTV.com News — After 'Paranoid Android,' the 'American Idol' alum is working on a cover of MGMT's 'Electric Feel.'By Jim Cantiello Kris Allen Photo: Frank Micelotta/ Getty Images While you should never judge a book by its cover, "American Idol" season-eig... more info

Pitchfork — Glastonbury is still quite possibly the best music festival in the world not only because it attracts the biggest of the big but because the biggest of the big often do things at Glastonbury that they probably won't do anywhere else. Like a surprise ... more info

Guardian Music — Pilton, Somerset'This is so rare," says Ray Davies, midway through Sunny Afternoon on the last day of the festival. "Every time I've played Glastonbury it's been raining." Like the crowd, he looks like he cannot believe his luck. By the third day of ... more info

Guardian Music — People dressed as Scrabble tiles, hand sanitiser, organic venison burgers . . .1 Climate camp/Greenpeace/Water Aid stalls. The world didn't need this much saving when Glastonbury started in 1970.2 People sitting around campfires inhaling nitrous oxid... more info

Guardian Music — Sunshine, surprises and, er, mass sobriety give Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis cause to toast vintage yearOn the final Sunday of every Glastonbury, the founder Michael Eavis claims without fail that this year's festival has been the best ever. Thi... more info

Guardian Music — The sun shone, the cider flowed and a surprise set by one half of Radiohead got eveyone talking on the first day of Glastonbury festivalIt might be a stereotype that Brits like to talk about the weather, but it's one that rings true on this scorching... more info

NME - Festivals — At a festival already overburdened with delights – unbroken sunshine, peerless line-up, a near-total absence of blokes on stilts – here was another: an unannounced gig on the Park Stage by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, which provi... more info

NME - Festivals — We miss U2 Never thought we'd be saying that but there was a Bono-shaped hole on the Pyramid on Friday night and Gorillaz, despite the appearances of Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg and Shaun Ryder and about a million others, failed to really captivate. Floren... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood played a surprise set on the remote Park stage, usually reserved for new bands, on the first day of Glastonbury. Thousands of festival-goers descended on... more info

BBC News - UK — Radiohead's Thom Yorke surprises fans with a set at Glastonbury, but stand-in headliners Gorillaz struggle to impress. more info