Traffic

On Monday night, I went to the launch of the 2007 Reading Festival – or the Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals, as the dual event is now called – which, as you’ll probably know is headlined this year by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins and Razorlight, with Arcade Fire, Kings Of Leon and Nine Inch Nails featuring prominently among the supporting line-up.

See the man who's jammed with everyone from Hendrix to Lou Reed

Bill Wyman and Paul Weller also to play

Andrew Eldritch’s unsurpassed trilogy of doom, now remastered and with extra tracks

Weller joins Carl Barat and Co onstage for Jam classic

Stephen Dalton brings you all the news, gossip and reviews from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

“Are you all sitting comftybold two square on your botty?” The acid cockney odyssey on 3 CDs – stereo, mono and a documentary. In a tin, of course.

Second enthralling album from hip-hop’s rapping, producing, multi-faceted new hero

Ninth effort from the revitalised Brisbane veterans

Cosmic compilation boosts maligned high-fliers back into orbit