PJ Harvey contributes two new songs to Mark Cousins documentary

Singer's first new material since Let England Shake will appear on soundtrack for What Is This Film Called Love?

Ernest Kaye obituary

Member of the original design team that built the Lyons Electronic Office (Leo), the world's first business computer

Alexis Petridis on The Height of Goth

At turns unwittingly hilarious, fascinating and incredibly boring, this 1984 nightclub documentary is a great British pop culture document

The galactic disco genius of Meco!

Tom Service: Twenty-five years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, disco producer Meco gave the Star Wars soundtrack a cosmic twist

Jimi Hendrix estate puts legal crosstown traffic in path of biopic

Unless estate is granted 'full participation', the film-makers cannot use original Hendrix recordings

Bomber jacket sales surge as London 2012 Olympics boost sporty fashion

Jude Law, Will.i.am, Justin Bieber and Ryan Gosling in Drive have all helped increase the appeal of the versatile style

Spotify and other streaming services get own chart

Official weekly chart to rank plays on platforms including We7, Napster, Deezer, Zune and ChartsNow. By John Plunkett

Met Gala 2012: like the Oscars but with a dash of crazy

It's the biggest challenge of the red-carpet world. So what was the thinking behind this year's frocks?

OutKast’s André 3000 to play Jimi Hendrix in new biopic

First of several mooted Hendrix movies gets the green light

Mission to Lars: film follows learning disabled man’s dream

New documentary follows Tom Spicer as he leaves his Devon care home on a quest to meet Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich

Kurt Cobain, before the age of the digital zombies

Jonathan Jones: Framing the debate: As Courtney Love cedes all rights to Cobain's image, where it will be used in an age of CGI and holograms is anyone's guess

Culture coach: the week’s essential arts stories

Charlotte Higgins: Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming up

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl to direct film about Sound City studios

Los Angeles recording studio where Fleetwood Mac and Nirvana recorded albums is to become the subject of a documentary

Spotify iPad app – review

No built-in apps or Android version for now, but does promise of a 'unique experience' hold true? By Stuart Dredge

BBC and Arts Council launch joint digital Space for culture

Partnership set to offer hundreds of hours of new and archived arts programming online, on mobile and on digital TV. By John Plunkett

Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company in £25m arts merger

Contemporary arts venue for Manchester under construction and due to open in 2014 opposite former Hacienda club

Tom Jones: ‘I was up for James Bond’

Singer claims he lost out to Sean Connery because he was 'too well known' to play the secret agent

This week’s top five music links

Bits and bobs from the web for you to look at and listen to

Jeremy Hunt: Can’t stop, off to Swan Lake

What has the Leveson inquiry revealed about Jeremy Hunt's taste in art? Did he get to Take That? And how big an N-Dubz fan is he? By Alex Needham

On her majesty’s silver service: expats dust off tuxedos for BritWeek in LA

Britons famous, once famous and perhaps to be famous again are beating the drum for the UK in Hollywood this week

The lengths that some short men will go to

A newly emerged picture shows one trick Beatles drummer Ringo Starr used to appear taller, but he's not the only one with issues about their height

Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street book to become Virgin feature film

Richard Branson company to produce feature film based on Robert Greenfield's book about chaotic making of classic album

Seen Kevin Macdonald’s Marley biopic? Here’s more reggae on celluloid

Neil Spencer: From Kingston to Lewisham, here are five other must-see reggae movies

Taylor Swift in talks for Joni Mitchell biopic

Singer reportedly 'circling the role' of Mitchell in a film adaptation of Sheila Weller's book Girls Like Us

Marley – review

Kevin Macdonald's impressive portrait of Bob Marley offers a glimpse of an extraordinarily full yet oddly mysterious life, writes Philip French

Levon Helm obituary

Drummer with the Band whose career stretched in many other directions

Music’s local scenes wither in an age of global cool

Dorian Lynskey: As bohemians flit between capitals, pop's centre of gravity is difficult to gauge. It's not where you're from, it's where you're at