The Enemy to perform with Cliff at this year's Glastonbury
A handful of new acts have been confirmed for this year’s Glastonbury Festival»
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Thom Yorke lays into the Sun, praises Glastonbury, but Radiohead still won't be playing
What’s this? A new twist to the Radiohead/Glastonbury/carbon emissions/public transport saga? Just what you were hoping for on this Thursday lunchtime, I’m sure»
Music fans respond to closure of the London Astoria
It was announced yesterday that the Astoria, one of London’s most popular live music venues, will definitely close in the near future»
Frightened Rabbit plan UK tour for the spring
The recently expanded Scottish quartet calling themselves Frightened Rabbit will tour around the release of their new album»
Billie Jean is not my lover: Neverland trespasser arrested after claiming to be Jackson's wife
A 60-year-old woman trespassing on the grounds of Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch has been arrested after claiming that, as Jackson’s wife, she is in fact the legal owner of the property»
Hard-Fi: biting back at the backlash
Sensing a backlash building against them, Hard-Fi have come out in defence of their music and their fans»
Rock action: Errors add shows with Mogwai, 65dos, Dirty Projectors to debut album release
Errors are busying themselves ahead of the release of their debut album»
Wrens member replaces Okkervil River guitarist
One in, one out, one hovering between the two over in the world of Okkervil River»
Sperm-stock: Irish tossers given free festival tickets
Men who are willing to help Irish sperm clinics replenish their stocks will be offered free tickets to any major event on the European festival circuit»
Tennent's evicted: line-up for last ever Triptych announced
The line-up for the eighth and last ever Triptych, which runs across venues in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, is as follows»
Radiohead haven't split: new single, second BBC show announced
Radiohead have announced that ‘Nude’ will be the next single taken from In Rainbows, as a second free BBC show is added to the agenda»
Tokyo Police Club announce spring tour of UK
Tokyo Police Club will tour in the summer just past the release of their debut album»
Day tickets for this year's Great Escape Festival now on sale
Rejoice, those who are unable to get time off work - day tickets for this year’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton have been released»
They have noise super-groups? Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Pussy Galore members re-unite
Free Kitten, the ‘super-group’ featuring three queens of noise-rock, have reformed to release their first album in over ten years»
Wireless gets worse: bands for Counting Crows day announced
DrownedinSound has just received word of the initial Sunday line-up for this year’s Wireless Festival. Prepare to wince»
Guillemots tour
The Guillemots are on what? Tour.»
Teenage British musicians: Rough Trade and Youth Music pair up to help you play at Glastonbury
Rough Trade have teamed up with charity Youth Music to offer teenage musicians the chance to play to 5,000 people on Glastonbury’s Left Field stage and to learn more about the perverts and thieves lurking in the music industry machine»
London-centric: this month at White Heat
There aren’t many club nights in London that can hold a torch to White Heat when it’s in the mood. Stuck away in the lowlight of Madame Jojo’s on Brewer Street, the self-proclaimed ‘heart of Soho’s darkness’ plays hostess to great acts pretty much every Tuesday. You should head down if you don’t already, is what we’re trying to say. The vodka is cheap»
Black Mountain to return to UK with live shows, single
Black Mountain will arrive in the UK this spring to begin a summer flirtation with us stuck on the isle»
Nick Cave and the good reads: new novel, screenplay on the way
The leader of Grinderman and the Bad Seeds has a screenplay and novel in the works»
Life after death disco: Hercules & Love Affair
Andrew Butler is Hercules & Love Affair. Courting the UK's clublands and broadsheets alike with their debut album, H&LA combine echoes of Arthur Russell with Greek Mythology to create a dance ritual that's euphoric and doomed»
Devo, EITS, Sonics, Shellac, MGMT, DiS and more for Primavera
We’ve been pining for Primavera Sound ever since they last sent us word of their festival back in February. Where have they been? Why haven’t they called? Sweet relief today, then, as they return with the latest batch of acts lined-up for Barcelona in May»
Leonard CO2hen playing UK and Irish dates this summer
The legendarily depressed Leonard Cohen will head to the UK and Ireland this summer for a short series of live dates»
Idiotheque? Radiohead to play free, tiny, April Fool's show, apparently
Radiohead have apparently agreed to play a free gig for BBC Radio 2 on April Fool’s Day»
Run and Hyde: more acts confirmed for Wireless 2008
More names have been confirmed for the Fatboy Slim-headlined day at this year's Wireless Festival»
xx Teens' tour orgy
London’s xx Teens have plotted out a fairly arduous tour schedule, as far as tour schedules go, for the next few months»
New album: Metallica to 'do a Radiohead' this September? No, probably not
Metallica will release their next studio album in September, Lars Ulrich has told BBC 6 Music»
Music man ‘shitting himself’ ahead of new shows
The Music will continue their return to the live scene by moving their ‘Four Cities’ tour up to the next rung»
MGMT hit the (middle of the) road across UK and Ireland this spring
DrownedinSound is pencilling in early June for the start of the MGMT backlash, after the Brooklyn duo announced plans for an Astoria-sized UK tour today»
Campbell and Lanegan follow new album with UK dates
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan will pair-up in the UK this summer for what so far stands as a trio of live shows»