News featuring Pink Floyd

Monday 17th June

• “Pink Floyd back catalogue available on Spotify after song plays pass 1m”

  Wish You Were Here passes benchmark set by music streaming site to unlock entire repertoire of songs

  Pink Floyd's back catalogue is being made available on Spotify after fans played their Wish You Were Here track more than 1m times in four days.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Saturday 15th June

• “Pink Floyd Considering Spotify Deal”

  The existing members of Pink Floyd have agreed to post their back catalogue on popular streaming service Spotify when a million music fans have...

  Read the complete article at www.contactmusic.com

Thursday 13th June

• “Portugal. The Man Do Dark Side With Danger Mouse”

  P.TM's new Evil Friends album was produced by Danger Mouse, but drew inspiration from Pink Floyd's classic.

  By James Montgomery

  Read the complete article at www.mtv.com

Monday 10th June

• “Arturo Vega and the best logo in rock”

  The man who designed the Ramones' brilliant logo has died, having given the band he loved an afterlife through his design

  It's not always the musicians alone who secure a band's place in history. Take the case of the Ramones. It is an item of faith – for me, at least – that the Ramones are one of the greatest bands ever to have trodden a stage, but the fact that after they split in 1996 their name became something you see on T-shirts on so many high streets owed at least as much to a man called Arturo Vega as it did to Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy (and CJ, Richie and Marky).

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Friday 31st May

• “Stars urge Alicia Keys to drop Israel gig”

  Roger Waters and Alice Walker pen open letters asking Keys to join cultural boycott of 'unjust and unbelievably evil' Israel

  Roger Waters and Alice Walker have penned open letters asking Alicia Keys to call off a forthcoming concert in Tel Aviv. Walker, the author of The Color Purple, invited Keys to join a cultural boycott of Israel, visiting "the children in Gaza" instead of supporting "a system that is cruel, unjust and unbelievably evil".

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Thursday 30th May

• “Music Weekly podcast: Beardyman shows us his sonic screwdriver – plus Kanye West on the edge of reason”

  Dorian Lynskey joins us this week, and he's got the new Kanye West single for analysis in Singles club. Also under the hammer are tracks by These New Puritans and Mayer Hawthorne.

  Beardyman is very busy in this week's show, and he gives us a guided tour of the Beardytron 500, his robotic alter ego, which means he can create full tracks on the fly with just his voice. It has to be heard to be believed. He has recorded a track especially for us, and even had a go at some Pink Floyd … Eat that, Daft Punk!

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Friday 24th May

• “SHE'S ON TOP: SIC ALPS VISUALIZED”

  With the fresh-released "She's On Top" EP object close in the proverbial rear-view mirror as it is in real live, Sic Alps gallantly drop the first of three videos (Final Cut-style - ah, Pink Floyd - where's the ground you didn't cover first?!?) from their three-song 12"EP! Directed by William Francis-Bashore Keihn, "She's On Top" rollicks San Franciscan-style just as you'd hope - like a mysteriously-flavored treat! What's in this thing? How's that wonky homonoid doing that creepy-crawl? Where's the owner of that bashed-in television set (and why don't they love TV no more?)? Who's gal-pals is that, making those cameos? The all-analog scenery tilts against the sunny setting sky. Greased and grained with a serious body-buzz, just the way you wanna feel when ingesting Sic Alps. They're at it again - but wot's the it, and where's it at? Find out in the videos of the near-future mirror, or…

  Read the complete article at www.dragcity.com

Thursday 23rd May

• “Laura Marling's new album reviewed”

  (Virgin)

  The most immediately striking thing about Once I Was an Eagle is how relentless it feels. That is not an adjective readily associated with Laura Marling, although perhaps it should be. On the one hand, profile writers have a tendency to depict the singer-songwriter as rather a delicate flower: young and aristocratic (her father is the Fifth Baronet Marling of Stanley Park and Sedbury Park), perpetually heartbroken and in charge of an acoustic guitar, as well as being pale and reserved – "with her grey-blue eyes and ghostly complexion, she has the intense, windswept look of a Brontë heroine", as one interviewer put it. She is an artist who suffers her way through playing live, which she once compared to having toothache, and worries about writing lyrics that are too personal "because my little heart can't take it". On the other, for one apparently so fragile and mild, there's certainly something relentless about…

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Monday 20th May

• “How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells”

  Virgin Records founder Richard Branson and composer Mike Oldfield recall how a leftfield offering by a bedroom genius kickstarted the Virgin empire

  Richard Branson, co-founder of Virgin Records

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Sunday 19th May

• “The Great Escape – live review”

  Various venues, Brighton

  You certainly can't fault The Great Escape for variety. Here, Iggy Azalea's impeccably turned pop-hip-hop fights for attention with Hacktivist, who ply crushing metal riffs and grime-influenced MCing over dubstep-paced beats, and Filthy Boy's literate, louche alt-rock shares space on the bill with Tom Odell's Radio Two-friendly singer-songwriter approach – albeit performed with an almost hysterical emotional intensity that jars slightly against the music – with Os Nelsons, who come from the deserts of Bahia bearing a distinctly Brazillian take on dancehall.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk