Guardian Music — The Populist: the column that doesn't come with a free Prince albumToughest assassin crew of the weekThe A-Team? The Expendables? The Losers? Nah, the team of highly-trained killers we're most excited about is RED's retired assassins: Bruce Willis, M... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - Oscar winner, composer Hans Zimmer and heralded guitarist Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Modest Mouse, The Cribs) have announced a special concert for the film, INCEPTION, on Tuesday, July 13. The show which will have them backed by... more info

The Music Fix — They love Buffy and they hate The Smiths...this means war! more info

The Vinyl Villain — ...."their first single was a minor hit, selling 60,000 copies".Nowadays that sort of figure would probably have you in the charts for about three months.The single being referred to was Good Technology by Red Guitars, which was released in 1983 on ... more info

KEXP Seattle — KEXP listeners have been in love with Shout Out Louds since their 2005 debut, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff, partly because of the band’s unmistakable 80′s New Wave influences — elements of The Cure, New Order, The Smiths, and many others can be heard fi... more info

The Vinyl Villain — It's going to do exactly what it says on the tin.And in a sense its a way for me to take Saturdays off in terms of thinking hard about what to post. But where to start?How about here.....mp3 : The Smiths - Nowhere Fast From the 1985 LP Meat Is Murde... more info

ContactMusic — JACKIE CHAN and WILL SMITH and his family have refused to let a hurricane stop them from promoting the KARATE KID movie in Mexico - the stars have flown into the eye of a... more info

ContactMusic — WILL SMITH's battle to save the world from aliens in hit movie INDEPENDENCE DAY has been voted America's favourite Fourth of July movie moment in an online poll.The... more info

Guardian Music — These Parisians are so in thrall to the sound of Madchester that they named themselves after the former Stone Roses frontmanHometown: Paris.The lineup: Sebi Browne (vocals) and Benjamin Browne (bass), joined by Denis Browne Jr, Hadrien Browne, and Ti... more info

Stereogum — You may know Frankie Rose as the onetime drummer of Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts and current drummer in Dum Dum Girls. (Or maybe via her time as a NYC bartender and Smiths fan.) Of course, if you’ve paid attention, you also know of her as the fr... more info