Their 2005 debut, With Love and Squalor, was chock-full of danceable guitar hits, but have We Are Scientists managed to repeat the process?

After his messy split from Atlantic Records, Ruarri Joseph returns to his roots...

Mark Chapman was so much more than John Lennon’s killer – he made The Beatles irrelevant too...

A band with only a guitarist and a drummer is always going to have a lot to prove - and most of the time they can only do this by being an incredible live act.

What is it with covers albums? There seem to be a plethora of ‘alternative’ versions of classic tracks recorded recently from Cat Power’s Jukebox, via Shelby Lynne’s Just A Little Lovin to Mark Ronson’s, erm, Versions.

“I just want to make people feel something,” says Reed of his band, The True Loves. “You’ve got to get the audience emotionally involved and make people feel what you’re feeling. That’s the whole point of soul music.” Amen to that.

Go Make a Difference has good intentions. It’s trying to be an informal book, providing advice on how to save the planet. But it ends up nagging and sighing, making it a pesky little bugger that’s not much fun to be around.

Solo project? Side project? Drunken joke that went too far? The Age Of The Understatement could be all three for Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner (and, all the way from Liverpool, Miles Kane).