Arctic Monkeys' cover of The Beatles' 'Come Together' is racing up the singles chart.
The track – which featured as part of Danny Boyle's four-hour Olympic Opening Ceremony extravaganza on Friday – has climbed to Number 14 in the iTunes download chart.
"Caliban's Dream" – the Underworld-penned track sung by Two Door Cinema Club frontman Alex Trimble is currently at Number Five.
Happy Mondays are planning a new album, they have confirmed.
The Manchester band's management told NME that they are working on a new record, which will be the first time all the original line-up of the band recorded new material album of new material since 1992's Yes Please!.
One encouraging thread in movies this year has been the return of filmmakers of a Nineties vintage. Wes Anderson, Whit Stillman and Todd Solondz have all returned, successfully, from their various sabbaticals.
Potentially topping them all, we now have sight of the imminent return of Paul Thomas Anderson, with his first film since 2007's There Will Be Blood, called The Master.
David Bowie is to release a 40th anniversary limited edition 7" of his 1972 single, "John, I'm Only Dancing".
'John, I'm Only Dancing' was originally released on Friday, September 1, 1972 on RCA as the follow-up single to "Starman", it reached number 12 on the UK singles charts, although it never appeared on one of Bowie's studio albums. Recorded too late for inclusion on the Ziggy Stardust album, it was considered for the following year's Aladdin Sane, but never made it on to the final running order.
Olivia Thirlby has promised that the Jeff Buckley biopic will be an "artistic film that does justice" to the late singer.
American singer/actor Reeve Carney will play Buckley in the upcoming film, which has been titled Mystery White Boy after a posthumous Buckley live album released in 2000. The film is being helmed by Ridley Scott's son, Jake.