Eighth solo album due in March...

It's Strummer: The Exile Years...

Some fantastic new additions here, though it's been tough these past couple of days to navigate away from the playlist that Caribou posted on Youtube: 1,000 tracks that you're advised to play on shuffle. I keep getting Wire and J Dilla every time I dig in, but it's really a constant source of familiar pleasures and usefully contextualised new discoveries.

The Runaways producer had been battling cancer...

The band haven't released any new material since 2009...

Landlocked sailors, Loyalist death squads and REM homages…

Director John Carpenter discusses his forthcoming debut solo album in an interview in the new issue of Uncut, dated February 2015 and out now.

Here we go, folks. Hot off the press, it's this year's Oscar nominations. First impressions: it's an incredibly predictable set of nominations this year.

All iTunes users were given album for free in September 2014…

A new service called VYNL is launching which will offer subscribers the chance to receive albums through the post. The American-based company, who are funded via Kickstarter, will use hashtags to help subscribers form a queue, then send them three records every month based on the hashtags they chose. They will then have the option to purchase an album for $8-$12, and send back the rejects in a pre-paid carboard mailer.