Guardian Music — • Choreographer to oversee Olympic and Paralympic closers• Es Devlin and David Arnold also part of design teamThe man behind Take That's successful comeback live shows will be in charge of the closing ceremonies at the London 2012 Olympics, organ... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - It takes place in Newcastle on the May Bank Holiday weekend... more info

Detroit Free Press — Iggy Pop and company will be joined by Henry Rollins and others April 19 at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater, performing in memory of Ron Asheton, the Stooges guitarist who died in January 2009. more info

Popdose — Shane MacGowan's teeth show up this week on Bottom Feeders and surprisingly they don't scare off Chrissie Hynde, Johnny Rotten or Iggy Pop. more info

The Vinyl Villain — Long before the sad and sobering adverts for car insurance, James Osterberg Jr made some very important and very influential records. Particularly two LPs that were released in 1977 - The Idiot and Lust for Life - both written, produced and very heav... more info

NME — Oasis, Paul Weller, Iggy Pop also in Andy Willsher's collection more info

Starpulse — Paul McCartney is working on a secret surf movie with the Aussie who taught Iggy Pop how to hang 10. The former Beatle befriended Jack McCoy over lunch after the surfing pioneer asked McCartney fo... more info

ContactMusic — SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY is working on a secret surf movie with the Aussie who taught IGGY POP how to hang 10.The former Beatle befriended Jack MCCoy over lunch after the surfing pioneer asked MCCartney for permission to use his Fireman song This Is Love i... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Lupe Fiasco is currently in Australia as part of the Big Day Out Festival, touring with names like Iggy Pop, Deftones, Grinderman, and countless others. After returning back to the states, he'll get ready to welcome his new LP... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Bill Laswell (bass), Brian Carroll (better known as Buckethead - guitar) and Bryan "Brain" Mantia (drums) go nuts on their new album Profanation: Preperation for a Coming Darkness. Operating as Praxis they have come up with funky post-grunge heavy ... more info