Former Smiths man bags TV job

They're part of a three-day festival geared towards Zappa

Band pay tribute to Glastonbury with new song at Turin show

Win Butler and co hit the road this winter

In spite of being a big fan of the last couple of Arbouretum albums – and also happily aware of Dave Heumann’s jobbing work in the past with Will Oldham and so on – I’ve been inexplicably useless at checking out one or two of his sidelines. Notably, that is, the band Human Bell he steers with one of the guys from Lungfish (not Daniel Higgs, I should say).

Superior Argentinian police thriller

Josh Homme’s plan for world domination begins in earnest. Now on 2CDs

Now in deluxe, demo-heavy format, REM’s ‘doom’ album sounds a positive triumph...

East LA’s finest return to their roots and deliver a landmark album...

As discussed, I’ve been pretty slack of late, so I’m going to try and crack through some of my backlog over the next few days, beginning with this one, the debut album from Best Coast.