'(I Want To) Come Home' features on new De Niro-starring film soundtrack

Live review of Uncut Music Award shortlist contenders

The next Archives installment out this year

Band announce first outdoor stadium gigs since Milton Keynes in '05

Psychic warfare study misses its target; George Clooney, Ewan MCGregor star

Reading the odd review of BBC’s Electric Proms the other week, and the default concept of chucking in orchestra/choir to create an “event”, I started wondering whether the pairing of Grizzly Bear with the London Symphony Orchestra was such a good idea. After all, the songs on “Veckatimest”, even the ones with strings, are so airy and lacking in bombast. Sometimes, I find myself barely noticing the instrumentation, with the focus so intently on those ornate vocal melodies.

Ang Lee's deceptively subversive look at the great festival of '69

Iconic Mick Rock shoot is up for auction this month

John Lydon announces Pil venue change too

It perhaps says much about John Lennon – the callow 16-year old version, that is – that he’s really only a supporting character in his own biopic. This Lennon has yet to develop into the sardonic, quick-witted Beatle we know from interviews and newsreel footage. He’s not even quite the Lennon we saw in Ian Softley’s Backbeat, despite the events of that film taking place soon after Nowhere Boy finishes.