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Johnny Marr has spoken out about Margaret Thatcher. "My thoughts are that if you see the word 'Thatcherism,' it’s not a word that stands for something good," he told Rolling Stone. "I don’t think there’s any getting around that."

Thurston Moore's new band Chelsea Light Moving will play their first UK shows in June. The band will tour Europe this summer, calling in at London, Leeds and Bristol. They have also been lined up for Yoko Ono's meltdown, which takes places across June at London's Southbank Centre.

Warp Films celebrated its tenth anniversary on Friday (April 12) with a special edition of Adam Buxton's BUG video showcase at the BFI Southbank. The showcase featured rare early music videos by a young Jarvis Cocker, including 'LFO' by LFO and Aphex Twin's 'On', which were produced between 1990 to 1993 in the years directly before Pulp's own meteoric rise to fame.

Following a listening party over the weekend, the tracklisting for Black Sabbath's much-anticipated new album 13 has been revealed, reports Fact.

Morrissey has appeared on Victoria Wood's Nice Cup Of Tea. The programme, which follows the comedienne as she explores the British fascination with tea, was broadcast last night on BBC One. The interview with Morrissey took place last year in New York. The pair share a pot of Ceylon tea from Morrissey's favourite teapot - bought in Rome. "I'm a tea-aholic," admits Morrissey. "As soon as I wake up, I must have tea." Scroll down to watch the clip. Also featured in the programme are Doctor Who actor Matt Smith and Graham Norton.

The National have released a new track, "Don't Swallow The Cap". The song is taken from the band's forthcoming album, Trouble In Mind, which is released on May 20 in the UK. "Don't Swallow The Cap" is the second preview of Trouble In Mind, following "Demons", which the band debuted last week.

Nile Rodgers has spoken about working on Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories. Speaking to Vice as part of their Creators Project series, Rodgers says that "Ninety percent if not higher of all recordings that I've ever made in my life have been the result of a very impromptu initial meeting that feels so natural and so organic that you have to take it to the next level. They make you up your game, even if your game is pretty good."

A musical production based on Jeff Buckley is set to open this autumn at The Old Globe in San Diego. The Last Goodbye - named after one of Buckley's most popular songs – has been conceived and adapted by Michael Kimmel and retells the story of Romeo And Juliet using songs by the late singer. Billboard reports that the musical will likely end up on Broadway in New York, given the high profile producers attached to the project - Hal Luftig ['Kinky Boots'] and Ruth and Steve Hendel ['Fela!'].

Writer-director Randall Miller and screenwriter Jody Savin have acquired the rights to My Cross To Bear, Gregg Allman's best-selling memoir, which was published last May (2012). Allman and his manager Michael Lehman will serve as executive producers on the film adaptation.

Black Sabbath have announced that they will premiere their new single "End Of The Beginning" on the season finale of TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The track will be played on the May 15 episode of the series. According to a statement, the band will perform the song when actors Ted Danson and Marc Vann go to a Black Sabbath gig to "investigate a trail of murders with horrifying similarities to the sins in Dante's Inferno."