Guardian Music — From the Beach Boys to the Smiths, there are some monster offerings to fill any music lover's stockingKitty EmpireGareth GrundyPhil MongredienDave GellyNeil SpencerNicholas Kenyon more info

ContactMusic — Zoe Kravitz is in talks to join 1000 A E The X-Men First Class actress is in negotiations to play Will Smiths daughter in the sci-fi action adventure set on an earth that is no longer hospitable to humans Wills real-life son Jaden Smi... more info

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ContactMusic — Singer Morrissey has cancelled another show on his North American tour after drummer Matt Walker suffered a mystery eye injury The former The Smiths frontmans U S trek got off to a shaky start last month Nov11 when he was forced to axe the opening da... more info

ContactMusic — Former The Smiths rocker Johnny Marr has been banned from driving after he was caught speeding at 72 miles 116 kilometres per hour in a 40 miles 64 kilometres per hour zone The guitarist was driving through Manchester England in his Audi A5 in April.... more info

ContactMusic — Anna Nicole Smiths ex-lover Howard K Stern has settled his lawsuit with a woman who suggested he was gay Jackie Hatten claimed she and Smith walked in on Stern and one-time love rival Larry Birkhead during a romantic clinch and the incident was repor... more info

Stereogum — Without a new album to promote, Morrissey still easily sold out the Shrine Auditorium in Moz Angeles. The seventeen song set included a handful of songs from The Smiths (“I Want The One I Can’t Have”, “I Know Its Over”, “Meat Is Murder”... more info

Guardian Music — Half of the world's most famous musical pairing of albino brothers produces a storming piece of funkThere was a time when, if you spent most of your life inside a Smiths T-shirt, liking funk and soul stood alongside wearing stonewashed jeans as socia... more info

ContactMusic — Singer Morrissey has paid a touching tribute to late playwright Shelagh Delaney hailing her as a genuine poet The former The Smiths frontman has often praised Delaney during his career and once confessed she was the inspiration behind many of his lyr... more info

ContactMusic — The British playwright and screenwriter who inspired songs by the Beatles and The Smiths has died Shelagh Delaney was 71 The writers image appears on The Smiths Louder Than Bombs compilation and frontman Morrissey has often paid tribute to her in... more info