Call for supervision of new doctors

New bands should take top billing at the big festivals, says Emily Mackay

Frank Ocean - 'Summer Remains'

A crowd of 1,000 Stone Roses fans saw the newly reunited band play their first gig in 16 years last night.

NYC indie-poppers Fun may be riding high off hit single "We Are Young", but, how long can they evade the trade descriptions act? 

At its best, the music of former Sussex schoolfriends Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire is a swirling and seductive stew of early Jefferson Airplane and the Indigo Girls.

Kelly Pratt, who to all intents and purposes is Bright Moments, has in the past supplied horn parts to Arcade Fire, Beirut and LCD Soundsystem.

Grimes is Claire Boucher, a 24-year-old Canadian whose fourth release in two years, the album Visions, has seen her get a lot of attention: everything from a Dazed & Confused cover, shot by Hedi Slimane, to a solid appearance on Later..., to Pitchfork reporting on a range of 'pussy rings' she's launched inspired by, yes, her own vulva.

Field Day celebrates its sixth birthday on 2 June with its unique formula of pioneering line-up coupled with village fete mentality.

It's easy to blame My Bloody Valentine for the dreary shoegazers that followed in their wake, but there was far greater depth to their guitar textures, which MBV's Kevin Shields proudly asserted were achieved without effects pedals.

This playful novel of typographic tricks and polyphonic voices is conventional at heart

Russell Brand will host the MTV Movie Awards for the first time when it airs in June, bringing his style of comedy dubbed “high to low brow” to the show, the network said today.

Twenty-odd years after "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "Me and Mrs Jones", vocalist Morris sounds better than ever – deeper, stronger, sassier – in this beautifully detailed Italian concept album of 10 superior pop songs arranged and conducted for voice and cello orchestra by Enrico Melozzi.