Flying high … the Stool Pigeon’s existence is a cause for celebration Does anybody out there like the idea of a music paper that is equally comfortable pontificating about Nas, Roky Erickson, Marc Almond and Holy Fuck, has the reassuringly newsprint-y feel of Melody Maker in the... 

‘A fiercely bright, posh, confident chap’ . . . Ben Schott. Photograph: Francesco Guidicini / Rex Features Ben Schott, presenting Almanacs – The Oldest Guide to Everything (Radio 4), is a fiercely bright, posh, confident chap. He has reason to exude confidence, given that he... 

Do not adjust your computer: a typically psychedelic scene from ODDSAC. Not that he’d admit it, but there must have been times when Josh Dibb has wondered if he’s the butt of some cruel cosmic joke. As the rest of his band Animal Collective were making the leap from Pitchfork-approved... 

Massive … MIA at the Underage festival. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Alice Glass shrieks wildly at the crowd, and they shriek back. The lead singer of rave group Crystal Castles – a band whose goal is to write a song that “can make the entire world vomit in unison”– is... 

Family affair … Tina Fey and Meryl Streep Meryl Streep and Tina Fey are to play mother and daughter in a comedy titled Mommy & Me, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stanley Tucci, best known for starring in The Lovely Bones and Julie & Julia (in which he appeared opposite Streep),...