• Keith Urban's sixth studio album, Defying Gravity, will be out on the 31st of March. The record is the follow-up to 2006's Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing and will include his latest single Sweet Thing.

• A new tribute album honouring Nick Drake, who died of a drug overdose at the age of 26 in 1974, is in the works and will feature artists including Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl, Norah Jones and Jack Johnson. A DVD of the recording process will be released and will also include the late actor Heath Ledger's video of Black Eyed Dog which he filmed in late 2007.

• Katy Perry was given the Best International Song award at the NRJ Awards in Cannes for her song I Kissed A Girl, but turns out she only got the award as the result of "a mistake in the vote-counting". The award eventually went to real winner Rihanna for her hit Disturbia. Britney Spears, the Pussycat Dolls and Enrique Iglesias were also among the winners.

Q&A: Akash

Sam, the vocalist of Akash and also the director of the band's new video, shares with Us the experience of making the video:

Us: Tell Us about the new video.

Sam: Our new video Rock Funda is quite different from our previous videos. The song, like Armaan, is on the punk side and I'm sure people will enjoy it. We are releasing a new video after 17 months and we wanted to come back with a punk and fast track; that's why we chose Rock Funda.

Us: How was the process of shooting the video?

Sam: It was quite interesting. We have played the role of mechanics in the video and we shot the video in Master Motors; we are thankful to them for bearing us for the whole day and night. A lot of things happened while we were shooting the video because the police stopped our shoot due to the loud music, as you are not allowed to play music after 12 in the Defence area. We requested them to allow us to do so for the shoot, but they didn't. After they went away, we started our shoot again playing the music at a very low volume, but they came back again, and a lot of bad things happened on the set.

Us: What can we expect from Akash next?

Sam: Next we will release the video for our song Na Mil Saka which is a slow and sad track. The video for The 3-4 Song is also in the pipeline. And we are also working on our second album.

Awards

Grammy Awards

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles on the 8th of February, and saw British artists dominating the ceremony. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the big winners of the night; their collaboration in 2007 was honoured with five awards – Album of the Year and Contemporary Folk/Americana Album (Raising Sand), Record of the Year (Please Read The Letter), Pop Collaboration With Vocals (Rich Woman), and Country Collaboration with Vocals ('Killing the Blues'). Lil Wayne won four awards (Rap Album for Tha Carter III, Rap Song for Lollipop featuring Static Major, Rap Solo Performance for A Milli, and Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Swagga Like Us with Jay-Z, T.I., and Kanye West) and Coldplay took home three trophies (Rock Album for Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, and Song of the Year and Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Viva La Vida). The night also saw Blink-182 announced their reunion, and Chris Brown and girlfriend Rihanna missed the ceremony after Brown was arrested for alleged domestic battery charges.

Other winners included:

Other winners included:

--New Artist: Adele

--Female Pop Vocal Performance: Chasing Pavements - Adele

--Male Pop Vocal Performance: Say - John Mayer

--Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Gravity - John Mayer

--Country Song: Stay - Sugarland

--Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Stay - Sugarland

--Alternative Music Album: In Rainbows - Radiohead

--Pop Vocal Album: Rockferry - Duffy

--Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon

--Metal Performance: My Apocalypse - Metallica

--R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson

--Rap/Sung Collaboration: American Boy - Estelle featuring Kanye West

--Contemporary R&B Album: Growing Pains - Mary J. Blige

--Female R&B Vocal Solo: Superwoman - Alicia Keys

--Male R&B Vocal Solo: Miss Independent - Ne-Yo

--Short Form Music Video: Pork and Beans - Weezer, Mathew Cullen

John Stevenson (Kung fu Panda) will direct Masters of the Universe. Masters of the Universe follows the story of Prince Adam of Eternia - a land of magic that finds itself coming under fire from the evil forces of Skeletor. Prince Adam is granted the power of the Castle Greyskull to transform into He-Man to protect Eternia.

Warner Bros. will be turning the cartoon 'Tom and Jerry' into a big screen family franchise. The plan is for the main characters to be in CG but will be placed in live-action settings just like 'Alvin and the Chipmunks'. The story will begin with their first meeting, how they don't get along and then reluctantly work together during the journey home. 'Tom and Jerry' started as a set of 114 animated shorts that were made by MGM from 1940 to 1960. These won seven Academy Awards.

-A total of 35 cars were used during the shoot. They were constantly repaired by a team of 85 mechanics.

-To get into fighting shape, Jason Statham trained for months with an ex-Navy SEAL, one of the key trainers who trained the Spartans of '300'. 

- Each car cost an estimated $250,000 - $300,000 for the film.

- David Carradine, who starred in the original Death Race 2000 plays the voice of Frankenstein in the opening scene.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) teams up with a squad of international detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specialises in stealing historical artifacts.