Shows coincide with band's 50th anniversary...

Jazz drumming; with shouting...

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.