Sinead O'Connor has claimed that her spat with Miley Cyrus has helped create an "important" conversation about mental health. O'Connor published an open letter urging Cyrus not to let the music industry take advantage of her in October this year. Since then, the pair have swapped barbs in public, with Cyrus receiving criticism from mental health charities for mocking O'Connor's battles with psychological illnesses over the years.

Cian Nugent & The Cosmos’ “Born With The Caul” is one of my favourite albums of the year, as I tried to explain as part of this blog from a month or so back. The album came out this week, anyhow, so I thought it was worth posting this Q&A with Cian here. Some really nice stuff on his influences, especially…

Apologies for the brevity of this blog - we're on deadlines - but I thought I'd share this, a new seven minute short film from Wes Anderson.

Professional Music Technology, a music store in Oxford which counts members of Radiohead and Supergrass as fans, has been saved from plans to turn it into a restaurant.

Roger Waters is recording his first new rock album in 21 years. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Waters confirmed, "It's 55 minutes long. It's songs and theater as well. I don't want to give too much away, but it's couched as a radio play. It has characters who speak to each other, and it's a quest. It's about an old man and a young child trying to figure out why they are killing the children."

A new video for David Bowie's 'Love Is Lost' has been unveiled.

Kevin Howlett, who helped compile the second volume of The Beatles Live At The BBC collection has teased a "top secret" project he is working on with the Fab Four's back catalogue. Howlett, alongside Mike Heatley, put together On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, which was released on Monday [November 11]. The first collection of recordings was released in 1994, hitting Number One in the UK charts and selling more than five million copies worldwide within its first six weeks of release.

Photo: Gus Stewart Arcade Fire covered The Clash's "I'm So Bored With The USA" at their show at London's Roundhouse last night [November 12]. This was the band's second show at the London venue: the band had also played the previous night [November 11], where they had covered Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge". You can watch footage of their Devo cover below.

A public tribute to Lou Reed will take place in New York on Thursday (November 14). New York: Lou Reed at Lincoln Center will take place between 1-4pm at the Paul Milstein Pool & Terrace at Lincoln Center in New York later this week. A post on Lou Reed's Facebook page claims that the event is, "A gathering open to the public - no speeches. no live performances, just Lou's voice, guitar music & songs - playing the recordings selected by his family and friends."

U2 will reportedly release their new album in April 2014, according to reports which also claim the album could be announced at Super Bowl XLVIII in February. The band are due to release their first album since 2009 next year with Adam Clayton recently confirming that the group were planning to wrap up recording by the end of this year.