Warp drive … Brian Eno. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Brian Eno will release his next album on UK indie label Warp Records. The man who gave Roxy Music their sizzle, Talking Heads their zing and Coldplay their hipster cachet, is reportedly recording a new album with long-time collaborators Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins. [...]

Just the warm-up … Alice Cooper at Sonisphere. Photograph: Tina Korhonen/Retna Although only two years old, Sonisphere has elbowed Donington’s Download aside to become the UK’s premier metal festival. It says something about the scale of the operation that Alice Cooper can be enlisted for Friday night’s warm-up slot to entertain early arrivers. While there [...]

Tinchy Stryder: ‘It can feel like I’m juggling two different fan bases.’ Photograph: Alex Kane The second thing you are told, before meeting Tinchy Stryder, is that he’s an unfailingly nice guy. A rapper who crossed over to mainstream pop from east London’s grime scene, I’m assured he is always easygoing, his title as the [...]

Alison Goldfrapp live at the Roundhouse: ‘like a woman who has recently been extricated from a bin full of unwound VHS tapes’. Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill Imagine a gig – a proper gig – where everyone gets in for free. Now imagine an event where the fabled guest list (a bit of an oxymoron, granted, when [...]