Santa Monica busker Armand Davis was playing along to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to a very satisfied audience

Today, after years of talking up multiple new albums in the pipeline, the Cure have finally released one of them. It’s really great, too. According to our review, Songs Of A Lost World, the first new Cure album in 16 years, is not a Disintegration-level masterpiece, but it’s way better than we’ve come to expect from a new LP by a classic band three decades past their peak.

Listen to The Black Keys and Beck team up on ‘I’m With The Band’ for the expanded version of their latest album, ‘Ohio Players’.

James Murphy has shared an update on the progress of “what’s shaping up to be a new LCD Soundsystem album”.

It was also the first show of LCD Soundsystem’s 8-night LA residency.

They don’t have a timeline for the new LP.

Roger Taylor admitted that he was left “horrified” after noticing something surprising in the lyrics of his late bandmate, Freddie Mercury, prompting him to question what he’d been “reading”

Brat has been named Collins Dictionary word of the year, but what does it actually mean?

The goth icons played two sets at the BBC in support of their new record, Songs Of A Lost World.

The goth icons played two sets at the BBC in support of their new record, Songs Of A Lost World.

Mansion living, Mersey musings, and magnificent renovations.

Spice Girls formed 30 years ago – and stormed the 1990s with hit after hit, alongside Oasis’s success but, while the Gallagher brothers are reuniting, the Spice Girls face challenges

Mel B takes a jab at her Spice Girl bandmates over failed plans to reunite for a 30th anniversary tour.

Two decades on from their secret sexual encounter – something the band’s fans had long suspected – Scary Spice let the cat out of the bag and Ginger has never forgiven her.

Watch busker play Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Otherside to an audience of one – the man who plays on the record