The New Music

Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker to receive an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University in November. But first we’ll see and hear him in Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Pavement’s screaming percussionist Bob Nastanovich has spilled some beans about the band’s reunion, saying that there will be no new material and that it will be a “once and once only kind of deal.”

Sufjan Stevens is in doubt over his future in music, asking “What’s the point of making music anymore?” in interview with Exclaim!’s Vish Khanna.

Grizzly Bear to re-release Veckatimest in November as two-disc deluxe edition.

Nick Cave apologizes to Kylie Minogue and Avril Lavigne for writing sexually explicit fantasies about the two starlets in his latest book The Death of Bunny Munro.