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Damon Albarn to appear on every BBC radio station at once

Damon Albarn has created an 'audio collage' to be simultaneously broadcast on every BBC radio station in the UK and worldwide to mark 90 years of radio. The simulcast, named Radio Reunited, will reach a potential global audience of 120 million people across every inhabited continent.

Watch Radiohead perform on American television

US TV show Austin City Limits aired an hour-long performance by Radiohead on Saturday (October 6) – and you can watch it in full here. The set, filmed in March on the Oxford band's US tour, sees the band playing a set heavy on tracks from 2011's The King Of Limbs. Austin City Limits is a long-running music programme on America's PBS, and Radiohead's performance marked the start of its 38th series. Radiohead play: 'Bloom' 'The Daily Mail' 'Myxomatosis' 'Morning Mr. Magpie' 'The Amazing Sounds of Orgy' 'Staircase' 'Identikit

The Black Keys, The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop to all feature on Ke$ha’s new album ‘Warrior’

The Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Iggy Pop will all feature on Ke$ha's new album, Warrior. The album, which is the follow-up to the eccentric pop singer's 2010 debut LP Animal, will be released on December 3 in the UK and December 4 in the US. 'Warrior' contains a star-studded list of guest writers, producers and collaborators, with the likes of Bonnie McKee, Fun's Nate Ruess, Ben Folds, Greg Kurstin, Ammo, Kojak, Max Martin, Billboard and Will.i.am all set to feature. The album has been overseen by songwriting supreme Dr Luke.

The Flaming Lips – Album By Album

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips answers your questions in An Audience With… in this month's new issue of Uncut, out now. In this week's archive feature we head back to our June 2008 issue (Take 133), to find the band's frontman looking back over their back catalogue, taking in Vaseline, drug addiction, union picket lines, the religious right and nothing short of the collapse of civilisation. “My agenda is to go somewhere where we’ve never been before…" Interview: Jaan Uhelszki –––––––––––––––––––––––––

Roger Waters’ The Wall tour named the highest grossing of 2012 so far

Roger Waters' The Wall tour has been named the highest grossing tour of the year so far by Boxscore/Billboard. The Pink Floyd man's global jaunt earned $131.4 million (£83.6 million) from November 1 last year to May 31 this year, selling 1.2 million tickets. The tour ends on July 21 in Quebec City, and will have made more than $350 million (£223 million) in total since it hit the road in 2010, and will have been seen by three million people.

Sun Kil Moon: “Among The Leaves”

Twenty years of touring and recording, of inspiration and graft for moderate acclaim, and it comes down to this. Mark Kozelek, the pivot of first Red House Painters and now Sun Kil Moon, is engaged in one more slog around Europe. It is not going well.

Pearl Jam management executive charged with fraud

The former chief financial officer for Pearl Jam's management company has been charged with 33 counts of theft. According to Associated Press, 54-year-old Rickey Charles Goodrich, of Navato, California, is alleged to have swindled $380,000 from 2006 until he was fired in September 2010. Prosecutors allege that Goodrich transferred the money from Curtis Management to fund personal use, including family holidays.

First Look – William Friedkin’s Killer Joe

Welcome back William Friedkin and Matthew McConaughey - both missing in action, it seems, for some years now - with the terribly funny Killer Joe. Typically, for the director of transgressive genre pieces like The Exorcist and Cruising, one of the first things we see here is Gina Gershon’s lower half, naked. “It’s a bit distracting, your bush in my face,” complains her step-son, Chris (Emile Hirsch).
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