NME - Festivals — Who: Pulp Where & When: Reading, Main Stage, Saturday [...] Read more! more info

NME — Plus Richard Hawley joins band for their first Reading appearance in nine years more info

NME — The National, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Eat World also set to play more info

Guardian Music — Following Belgium's Pukkelpop tragedy, Festival Republic's Melvin Benn says UK events are ready for any emergencyThe organisers of the Reading and Leeds festivals say they are prepared for any emergency at this weekend's event, including the kind of ... more info

ContactMusic — Samuel L. Jackson and Entourage star Jeremy Piven have teamed up to perform a special tribute play to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. The Pulp Fiction actor and Piven will take the stage for 110 Stories, a production which highlights the... more info

Guardian Music — If you're heading to Reading and Leeds just for Pulp then you're missing out on what the festival does best – here's Kerrang! editor James McMahon with the weekend's top rock highlightsDeftonesRarely do the alt-metallers grace a music festival with... more info

Guardian Music — Cults, On tourWhile Phil Spector is detained in prison, his well-documented megalomania must be stoked by the knowledge that the tropes of his most famous musical productions are still enjoying a healthy lease of life. Cults – a New York duo compri... more info

ContactMusic — Samuel L. Jackson was horrified on a recent charity trip to Africa after discovering all the adults in one village had died of Aids. The Pulp Fiction star set up the Samuel L. Jackson Foundation to distribute funds to worthwhile causes, and he took a... more info

Stereogum — Øyafestivalen hosted a diverse array of local talent, American indie bands, and international stars (Kanye, Pulp, Aphex Twin) in Oslo, Norway last week. Among the visiting groups you’ll also recognize are Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Fleet Foxes,... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - The Pulp man has made a compilation for a label that lost most of its stock in the PIAS warehouse fire... more info