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THEY may herald from Dundee and be Scottish through and through, but The View insist that Liverpool has always felt like home.

We get immersed in the long, long, long-awaited reissues from the shoegazers.

IT may be grim up north, according to some - but at least we have all the best music.

If one thing can be taken from the record, it is that Weller is certainly not out of ideas, a testament to the man’s genius and more than can be said for many of his peers.

Organisers of the Cultural Olympiad have unveiled the programme of events taking part in Scotland to mark the festivities. More than 250 events will take place across the country and involve more than 500,000 participants as London 2012 hands over to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

There’s a good side, and a bad one, to collaborating with dead people. Jay Farrar found that out fast when he took on the task of putting his own music to lyrics by the late Woody Guthrie. On the one hand, the departed can’t argue back. On the other, “he’s not here to bounce ideas off of,” Farrar says.

Two British acts come to New York this spring with different agendas: the La’s will try to recapture old glory and Charli XCX will try to make her mark.

The Sixpence None the Richer singer will perform Feb. 23 at Musikfest Cafe.

Katherine Coplen talks with Sixpence None the Richer's Leigh Nash about her son, her music and the Super Bowl. by Katherine Coplen Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer has been famous since her band's "Kiss Me" blew up in 1999. Quickly followed by the release of a second single, a cover of The La's "There She Goes," Sixpence None the Richer was sky high at the beginning of the millennium ...

It's handy, in such situations, to apply what I like to call the Shakespeare/Beatles/Einstein rule, or, for short, The Shakesbeatlestein Principle.

Check out pictures of some of the big winners from the People's Choice Awards, held in LA on Wednesday night.