Recycled riffs: Musicians have been trying to buck up their ideas on their environmental impact for years, what with releasing carbon neutral CDs and wrestling with their consciences over jet travel. Reverend And The Makers frontman Tom Jarvis used a recycled guitar made from crushed bootleg CDs at Glasto. Read more and hear it here …

Innocence lost: Ah, if only those old Ladybird books reflected the real world more accurately …
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Make yourself an old school mixtape: Now you can do it online – choose some songs, shove them together, decorate the cassette and send them to your mates or post them to your blog etc here.

Get a credit on the latest Sigur Ros album: Stump up £50 to pre-order the band’s unpronounceable new album and you will get the honour of having your name included in the packaging if you let them know before the end of play today (July 11).