Oasis, The Stone Roses, Joy Division and The Smiths all feature in a new book charting the last thirty years of Manchester music.

When Woody Allen tried to tackle tabloid culture in Celebrity, he spectacularly fell on his face. But as many film scholars have pointed out, Woody Allen is not the bassist from Interpol. Clearly, that was the problem.This April, Interpol bassist Carlos Dengler (aka Carlos D) will attempt to excel where Woody Allen failed. My Friends Told Me Ab...

This 4xCD box set covering 15 years of music from Manchester's legendary Factory imprint-- Joy Division, New Order, OMD, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, and many more are represented-- has the difficult task of summarizing a famously wayward label.read more

War Child's Heroes charity comp is a covers collection on which veteran bands nominated artists from a younger generation to take a stab at one of their classic cuts (yesterday there was Lily Allen's take on the Clash). There are a few of no-brainers included in the set (see the Hold Steady doing Springsteen's "Atlantic City") but there is somet...

Earlier today we heard Lily Allen and Mick Jones' take on "Straight To Hell" from Warchild's Heroes compilation. Hot Chip's reinvention of Joy Division's "Transmission" appears on that same collection. When they (and Peter Gabriel) covered Vampire Weekend they gave "Kwassa Kwassa" a more electronic bent and truly meta angle, but were faithful to...