AP Feb. 4, 2010: Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva arrive at the “Edge Of Darkness” Premiere in Paris. LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson is heard using a racial epithet and calling his ex-girlfriend a “whore” in a recording released by a celebrity news website Friday. The two-minute recording... 

Neil Young to release ‘lost’ albums … Uncut readers rejoice. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images After keeping them in the vaults for nearly 40 years, Neil Young is planning to issue four unreleased albums. Homegrown, Oceanside-Countryside and Chrome Dreams will be released... 

Shaun Keaveny, 6Music. Photograph: BBC It was over to us, yesterday, on 6Music for a 12-hour Listener Takeover. Shaun Keaveny (pictured) kicked things off at breakfast, mulling over bank holidays as he did so. “Such a harbinger of doom, these weekends,” he noted. That’s the... 

Feargal Sharkey … could be about to shake up the music debate in the Lords. Photograph: Brian Rasic / Rex Features Last week I had tea with Lord Lucas in the House of Lords (I know – whodathought?). He wanted to have a chat about what the Lords could do to help artists and music creators....