The Artist and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy dominate the nominations for this year's BAFTA Film Awards.

Sales of folk music in the UK last year were up 20% from 2010.

The home of 80s popstar Adam Ant was raided at dawn yesterday (January 16) by UK Border Police.

Billy Bragg, Jeffrey Lewis and Stornoway have all been confirmed to play London's The Apple Cart Festival on June 3.

Paul Weller and his wife Hannah have had two twin boys.

Bit of a rush this morning, and the relentless bulldozing consistency of New York’s Endless Boogie means that I’ve been round the block covered by “Twenty Minute Jam Getting Out Of The City” a good few times.

You may have seen in the current Uncut that The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn will shortly be releasing his first solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes, recorded in Austin, Texas, with Spoon producer Mike McCarthy and a band including White Denim drummer Josh Block.

Ryan Adams has announced a new UK tour for April.

Brett Anderson has said that if the new Suede album isn't "amazing", then it will never see the light of day.

Before the rampant egomania, before the bloated double albums, before the mass band purgings and the hagiographic documentary in which Billy Corgan, saintly in white bathrobe, sits in a hotel room writing songs about Nazi Germany and receiving a pair of fans who present him with a huge plaster model of his own head… yeah, it’s easy to forget that before all that stuff, the Smashing Pumpkins used to be a pretty great rock band.