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- Next time you pop down to your local multiplex, keep your eyes peeled for two adults and two kids with scarves on their heads. It's only bloomin' Michael Jackson, his kids and dodgy rapper, Akon (NME)

- REM haven't sold as many tickets as they would have hoped. Shame really. Perhaps that's what you get when you employ Editors as the support act (BBC)

- Morrissey's next studio album, Years of Refusal, has been pushed back to 2009. Fingers crossed he's re-awoken his muse, or at least given it a sharp nudge in the ribs (Pitchfork)

- Those kids are still bickering! If they don't stop that racket, I'll bang their bloody heads together (Yahoo Music)