Dave Grohl's rock titans stretch out for a stadium residency

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Again!

Will Oldham hooks up with Espers for covers session

But can Pete Doherty cut it as a stadium rocker?

Rare candour from a musician in a press release today. This is Stephin Merritt talking about the Magnetic Fields album, “Distortion”. The goal, he says, was “to sound more like Jesus And Mary Chain than Jesus And Mary Chain.”

What’s playing on the iPod of the sacked England coach

The Irish rockers say 02 listings are 'false'

Foo Fighters frontman speaks about Wembley Stadium spectacular

The stories, of course, are pretty familiar by now. In 1974, tensions within the Faces were, as they say, running high, Rod Stewart’s increasing solo success causing much friction apparently. The situation doubtless exacerbated by the band’s predilection for “relentless, boozy madness”, as Ronnie Wood described it in UNCUT last year. Anyway, so what does Ronnie do? He gathers together some of his famous pals, records his own album and goes out on tour as The First Barbarians.

Well, OK, a Jonny Greenwood solo album. . .