Guardian Music — The Pogues frontman is to cover Screaming Jay Hawkins's I Put a Spell On You ... with a little help from the Bad Seed and Captain Jack SparrowNick Cave, Johnny Depp and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie are among those reportedly roped-in for a new cha... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Former Creation boss Alan McGee talks about the release of Upside Down, a film based on his label - And how he is bored with the music industry.Forming a record label in his early twenties in London with little money was impressive by anyone’s... more info

Undercover, Australia — It looks like Primal Scream have returned to the studio. more info

The Quietus — "We're trundling along," says Mani more info

XFM.co.uk — It will be a "writing year" for Bobby Gillespie and co as the band hole up in their studio. more info

NME — Mani reveals that "this year is a writing year" more info

NME - The Video Blog — It's shaping up to be a good year for music movies. Ian Dury biopic Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll is picking up slavering reviews, and tonight (January 14) sees the premier of Blur flick No Distance Left To Run. Potentially most exciting of all, t... more info

Guardian Music — The 13th Floor Elevators frontman will return with his first album of original songs in more than a decade. And he's hired Austin indie-rockers Okkervil River as his backing band13th Floor Elevators' Roky Erickson will return with his first album of ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Creation Records boss Alan McGee is no stranger to a spot of self-mythology. Now it looks like his ten-years-defunct indie label -- which launched Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and Oasis (pictured) onto an unsuspecting world -- is to have its b... more info

Guardian Music — Upside Down charts drink and drug-fuelled years of label that signed Oasis, Primal Scream and My Bloody ValentineWhen an unsigned Noel Gallagher took the train from Manchester to meet the bosses of Creation records in 1993, he had little idea what to... more info