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The French are coming! And not in a sinister conquesting type way like they did 1,000 years ago. No, this time with music in the form of the Oui Love tour. This year's edition sees Team Ghost, who played on the DiS stage at The Great Escape back in 2010 a»
When was the last time Björk did anything in the UK? My mind escapes me and maybe it was more recently than I think but still, it's welcome every time she does anything. Which she is, as it's just been announced that perhaps the most famous Icelander of all time (next to Magnús Ver Magnússon and Magnús Magnússon) will be undertaking a three week live residency at the Manchester Film Festival. »
Back at the beginning of the month it was announced that a triumvirate of the most excellent broadly indie-styled bands were to curate and headline a day each at ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas. Now the first curators' picks have been unveiled. »
New record. Long time since the last one. »
The first bunch of bands, acts and artists to play the 2011 edition of Standon Calling Festival have just been announced. Well, like yesterday, which is now enough for me. As ever there is probably a band or two in the list you might fancy seeing.»
More details confirmed. »
Plenty, plenty.»
HEAR IT, HEAR IT. »
New Mogwai video. »
Excellent stuff from an excellent man.»
Brontide announce their debut album, plus some live stuff. »
New Errors track. Listen to it here. »
This week's Spotifriday playlist.»
New Let's Wrestle track. Let's get it, yeah? 'Dear John'.»
New PJ Harvey video. Of sorts. »
Last year's Summer Sundae weekender over in Leicester was an absolute ball, wasn't it? Despite Gareth from Los Campesinos! smashing his face in. But even all that was in good fun. This year they've just announced the first wave of bands and, as you'd expect, it's fairly decent. Have a peek in here for who has been confirmed so far.»
This is a good one, no surprise. »
A pretty great list of new 'uns. »
Hear the first slice from the TTT album right here, right now. In exchange for your e-mail address.»
Download 'The Knowledge'.»
New Parenthetical Girls track.»
It probably won't come as a particular surprise to you that some more Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds records are going to be re-released, as had been the case in the past. Following in the footsteps of the last few to get this kind of treatment are Let Lov»
Yes. It's quite very, very good.»
Art Brut return with a new album this year. Hoorah! It's been produced by Frank Black again and is called Brilliant...Tragic! and comes out on May 23 through Cooking Vinyl. They've also released a track into the wild, called 'Unprofessional Wrestling'. More about that in a bit. »
This week's content-themed Spotifriday playlist, featuring songs from Lykke Li, Razika, Beat Connection, Half Man Half Biscuit, Beady Eye and some more bands.»
