Yui Mok, PA Photos "We're Radiohead. For the first time this year we're going to play some 'King of Limbs,'" said Thom Yorke as Radiohead made their way on to Glastonbury's Park Stage, thus confirming the worst-kept secret of the festival so far. The band that performed one of the festival's most well-regarded slots in its history -- the ...

Ben Birchall, PA Photos The Glastonbury masses started arriving in force on Thursday, negotiating their way though traffic jams and that good old tradition of Britain's biggest festival; mud. And while actual bands might have been thin on the ... err... unfirm ground, there was still plenty to do and see. More than 177,000 people are ...

Frank W. Ockenfels In the late 1960s and early '70s, the Western film genre got a much-needed kick in the chaps from the most unlikely direction: Italy. A clutch of Italian producers and directors brought their own take to big-screen horse operas, adding a Continental touch to tales of revenge and revolution, and making stars of up-and-coming ...

Leon Neal, AFP/Getty Images George Michael announced details of a 47-date orchestral tour of Europe starting in August -- as well as a new album -- during a press conference at London's Royal Opera House on Wednesday, May 11. The tour, which is called Symphonica, will begin at the State Opera House in the Czech capital Prague on Aug. 22 ...

Petrus Olsson Most British bands approach playing London's Shepherd's Bush Empire with a certain sense of trepidation. The stately theatre is one of the English capital's most respected venues -- an allegedly haunted Victorian gem with an enviable roll call of musical highlights. Everyone from the Rolling Stones to the Arctic Monkeys, the Who ...

Emma Nathan It took Anna Calvi a long time to summon up the nerve to sing her own songs -- but the wait has certainly been worth it. The 28-year-old Londoner's debut, released earlier this year, has seen her breathlessly compared with PJ Harvey, while her music's lush, brooding atmosphere has also seen comparisons to Antipodean Prince of ...

Alexandra Valenti If you had walked into the studio towards the end of Okkervil River's recording of their song 'Wake and Be Fine,' you would have been forgiven for thinking the Austin band had collectively lost the plot. Hard at work since the morning, the band fronted by the enthusiastically adventurous Will Sheff had spent hours and hours ...