Guardian Music — Erol Alkan and Richard Norris have a theory about Summers of Love. "They happen every 21 years," says Norris. "1967 was 21 years before 1988, and 21 years after that is 2009. It's going to be the Third Summer of Love." This isn't perhaps an idea that... more info

The Music Fix — Competition: The Music Fix has two copies of Beyond The Wizards Sleeve's Re-Animations Vol. 1 to give away. The album includes remixes of Peter, Bjorn And John's Young Folks, Goldfrapp's Happiness and Franz Ferdinand's Ulysses. You can read our rev... more info

NME - Pinglewood — Inspired by the post about Your Twenties' infatuation with Elastica, here are some of my favourite inter-band musical love letters (the ones I could find on YouTube). LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House "All the robots descend from t... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — All of The Big Pink's good photo's won't upload on here and the rest are blurry and/ or rubbish so I'm going to have to embarrass Robbie Furze,one half of the band, by adding a picture of him with Lily Allen who he briefly dated last year. Sorry (E-m... more info

The Culture Of Me — Zodiac Cartel (a name that any comic book geek would recognize) is as secretive a DJ/producer as you can get.  For one, most of the "photos" you'll find of him (we've been able to confirm that, at least) are, obviously, not him.  They're o... more info

The Culture Of Me — Zodiac Cartel (a name that any comic book geek would recognize) is as secretive a DJ/producer as you can get. For one, most of the "photos" you'll find of him (we've been able to confirm that, at least) are, obviously,... more info

AngryApe — Nick McCarthy loans his vocals to a song more info

NME — Franz Ferdinand's Nick McCarthy makes a guest appearance on a song on the forthcoming new album by Super Furry Animals, 'Dark Days/Light Years'. more info

The charity CD features artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Paul McCartney, each of whom picked one of their classic songs to be sung by such musicians as TV on the Radio, Elbow, Beck, Lily Allen, and Franz Ferdinand. more info

Guardian Music — Robert Smith trades on past glories while the Franz boys stay perky and White Lies peddle hip gloom"Godlike Genius" is a slippery thing. These days the recipient of NME's annual award for services to tinnitus must be able to headline the O2 Arena. Th... more info