First track off the new Massive Attack album was previewed last night on Zane Lowe’s Radio One show. Splitting The Atom features D. and G. along with Horace Andy. Listen here.

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I know this is a total indulgence, but Kind of Blue, the album that pretty-much shaped modern music, was 50 years old this week – a pretty good excuse to post this video of a simply fabulous version of So What. Brilliant.

There will not be a dry eye in the house when Edwyn Collins takes the stage at the Edinburgh Festival on Saturday night. 30 years since the release of Falling & Laughing, back in the town of his birth and it’s his 50th birthday.

But the real celebration will be for the remarkable and brave progress he is making from the two serious strokes and subsequent MRSA he suffered in 2005. There’s some great footage on the BBC Radio 4 site showing him rehearsing for the Edinburgh show and an interview with Edwyn and his wife, Grace, where they talk candidly about his illness and recovery.

This is at least ten years old, but I only stumbled upon it at the weekend. MMW have long-been one of my favourite bands – they are all shit-hot musicians and this collaboration with John Scofield is amazing. But just look at their faces. This is some seriously extreme jazz-gurning. You could watch this with the sound turned down and still know what they were playing. Great stuff.

Really looking forward to having a go at this. 

David Byrne is a genuine genius and his Playing the Building project is just another example of his restless creativity.

This is brilliant. A really simple idea, beautifully executed.

This little bit of footage will make some pretty uncomfortable viewing for everyone involved with Harlequins. I love Barnsey’s comment – “the only person who has punched Tom Williams, is Tom Williams” – how prophetic?

Richards has gone, Williams is suspended, club about to be thrown out of the European cup – and the season doesn’t start for another couple of weeks.

Not sure I'd want them in my dining room, but some of these huge decals by French firm, Domestic, are extremely cool and a great, and cheap, alternative to wallpaper

Tom Waits looks brilliantly cast as the devil in Terry Gilliam’s fabulous-looking new movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

I’m not normally a Trek fan, but the belt-drive single-speed District is a seriously cool piece of kit. I want one.