The Telegraph Blog — So the BBC has decided to dump the Christmas Top of the Pops. It's the final indignity. Has pop music become so irrelevant to mainstream culture, we can't even manage a family knees up on Christmas day? Playing the Virgin Mary?: Singer AdeleI can se... more info

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Guardian Music — Adele is just about ready to start work on her second album. She just needs her heart broken first."I've just got to find something to write about really," she explained to BBC Newsbeat. "The first record I was just completely in love, whereas I'm ju... more info

Paste Magazine — Release Date: Oct. 24 Writer/Director: Charlie Kaufman Cinematographer: Fred Elmes Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Emily Watson, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener Studio/Run Time: Sony Pictures Classics, 124 mins. Kaufman’s fi... more info

Why Adele is brimming with ideas more info

MTV.com News — Philip Seymour Hoffman adrift in Charlie Kaufman's alternate universe. Philip Seymour Hoffman and director Charlie Kaufman in "Synecdoche, New York" Photo: Sony Classics Charlie Kaufman, a screenwriter for whom "brilliant" is the default a... more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Adele has told Newsbeat she's brimming with ideas for her next album and that she already has a producer in mind. more info

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NME — Burt Bacharach played a spectacular hit-laden 90-minute set as part of the BBC Electric Proms in London last night (October 22). more info

Guardian Music — Burt Bacharach was voted one of the sexiest men alive by America's People magazine as recently as 2000, something that is a good deal easier to understand when he's a few yards away, ruminatively tinkling a piano. The "greatest living composer", acco... more info