Postal service

Brilliant cover version of 'Such Great Heights' includes THREE drummers!

Loungy electronic sophisti-pop

A stamp bearing the likeness of Janis Joplin has been released as part of The United States Postal Service's Music Icons series. According to Linns Stamp News via Rolling Stone, the Joplin stamp will enter circulation in August.

Johnny Cash is set to grace a tribute stamp in the United States. The late country singer is to be honoured with a commemorative stamp produced by the United States Postal Service, writes Beyond The Perf. The Cash tribute stamp will be produced as part of the Music Icons series and will feature a photograph taken by Frank Bez during the sessions for 1963's 'Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash'.

Led by plaintive-voiced Ben Gibbard - sometime Postal Service frontman and electro-indie pioneer - Death Cab For Cutie stop off at Latitude during their 'Narrow Stairs' world tour to bring evocative, dark-hearted tales of devotion to the festival in Suffolk.

From The Durutti Column to Emmylou Harris

How the Crescent City kept on singing, post-Katrina

The Sun Kil Moon man on fame, infamy and his war on The War On Drugs

“I want to be mothered,” Mark Kozelek sang in 1993 on “Mother”, one of the more startling tracks on the second Red House Painters album. “I want you to give attention to my belly button/Mother, I want to have bobby pins stuck in my ears.”

The lineup for this summer's Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona has been announced.