Mike Skinner

Guardian Music — Chris Brown, Feistodon, and Bradley Wiggins' Paul Weller fixationGuardianmusic.tumblr.com is the place where our writers post songs, videos, pictures and other music-related odds and ends they come across during their web trawling.Here are our top fi... more info

Guardian Music — Get your free audiobook here - The Story of the Streets, as written and read by Mike Skinner more info

Guardian Music — Wikileaks is releasing an LP with tracks including The Ballad of Julian Assange in order to raise funds. Read our critic's verdictIt would never be enough for Wikileaks to be a whistleblowing website that infuriated the US and other governments by sp... more info

Guardian Music — Catch up with the last seven days in the world of musicIn the newsStone Roses reunion concerts to be boycotted by photographersRolling Stones unveil facelift for legendary lips logoLiam Gallagher starts singing Oasis songs againPete Doherty skips T i... more info

Guardian Music — Discover the stories behind some of the most definitive musicians of our generation with free music autobiography downloads in the Guardian and ObserverThis week we are giving away three free music autobiographies with the Guardian and Observer. On F... more info

ContactMusic — The former stars of The Streets and The Music have joined forces on a new project dubbed The D-o-t The Musics Rob Harvey and ex-Streets leader Mike Skinner have recorded over 60 songs for their new venture according to Nme com Harvey says Wed... more info

Guardian Music — This pop duo tick all the right boxes for huge commercial success – they just need the right producerHometown: Bournemouth via Egypt.The lineup: Peter Howarth-Brown (vocals, guitar) and Suraya (vocals).The background: The Sanzhi UFO houses were a s... more info

Guardian Music — Fancy a game of Scrabble? This Welshman, and former standup comedian, certainly has a way with words …A few weeks ago we mentioned Welsh former standup comedian turned rapper Elro in a blog about Man Like Me. Both acts have recently been signed to ... more info

Guardian Music — Cate Le Bon, On tourShe's Welsh, and plays with him in the 80s-themed pop group Neon Neon. These, however, aren't the only affinities Cate Le Bon has with Gruff Rhys. Far more persuasively, Le Bon, like Rhys, is someone whose take on songwriting is s... more info

Guardian Music — The new single from these Mike Skinner signings is arch, knowing and a little camp – but completely amazingMan Like Me, aka Johnny Langer and Peter Duffy, are about to see if the curse of Mike Skinner's record label, The Beats, is a thing we've jus... more info