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Here's the list of nominations in the key categories for this year's Academy Awards...

The great TV interrogations re-enacted, with backstory

Spooked, sprawling synth-pop from intrepid New Yorkers

All original members regroup for 40th anniversary

I happened to be at Chalk Farm tube yesterday, waiting for a train. As a bus user, I’m always curious to see what kind of ad campaigns studios are running on the underground for their current releases. At the moment, as a right-thinking film fan, you might be in a state of near-priapic delight at the wealth of prestige movies in cinemas. There’s posters up for The Wrestler, Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Milk and Frost/Nixon, breathlessly described with attention-grabbing quotes like “the feel-good film of the decade”, or “a contender for Best Picture”. It is, of course, January, and rather shamelessly the studios are chucking out their high-calibre movies as we pile headlong into Awards season.

Paul McCartney backed charity album features Elbow, Beck, Franz Ferdinand and the Hold Steady amongst others

Delicate music, now delicately boxed

Part 7: All about the reunion, the occult, and more from behind the scenes of Led Zep

With the Uncut issue out at the start of January put, as we say, to bed, and the mildly Sisyphean Top 75 project limped to a resolution, I’ve had a look for some new stuff over the past couple of days.

Dozens of artists donate tracks to new charity album