Hyde and seek: good bands discovered on Wireless bill
Hark! Wireless’s under card is swelling now that the four headliners - Jay-Z, Fatboy Slim, Morrissey and Counting Crows - have been announced. It’s not shaping up too badly, actually»
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Festival scrap-heap: Electric Gardens, Knowsley Hall
Two down, several thousand to go»
What's the Spanish for 'youthquake'? Gerard Way speaks out for emo community
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way was in Mexico at the weekend and he should be applauded, we guess, for being the first of emo’s holy trinity – wither thou, brothers Wentz and Urie? – to speak out on the appalling (lol) anti-emo violence that has positively swept Latin America in the last month or so»
Get Loaded gets acts: Kate Nash, Supergrass, Maccabees, Ipso Facto
Seems like print had the jump on us this week, as London megazine Time Out carried the next batch of acts for this year’s Get Loaded before we even knew they existed. Deadlines save lives?»
Hella good: Zach Hill’s debut record buoyed by No Age, Chino Moreno, Marnie Stern, Primus and LCD
Astrological Straights, the debut solo album from Zach Hill, has been the subject of much interstellar meddling, the drummer calling in half a decade or so’s worth of favours to assemble a great collaborative cast»
David Byrne and Brian Eno 'finishing up' new record + Fatboy Slim news
The dream art-rock team of David Byrne and Brian Eno will return with new, strange fruit soon, the former Talking Heads man told NME.com recently»
Go see Times New Viking: UK and Ireland, very exciting
Columbus kids Times New Viking will be ripping around the UK and Ireland next month, as they fill out a few festival appearances with yet more noise»
Youthmovie soundtrack strategies: band perform live for Juno girl's new film
Youthmovies will be in London’s Brick Lane this time next week, playing after the UK premiere of Juno actress Ellen Page’s new film»
The Hold Steady sign deal with Rough Trade
Barroom pioneers The Hold Steady have signed to Rough Trade»
Watch: new Futureheads video
The Futureheads’ full return is drawing nearer, third album This is Not the World – the band’s first since 2006 – due on the 26th of May. Of course we knew all of this in January, but now we have another video to go with our rapidly growing collection»
Pogo nogo: Digitalism forced to cancel UK tour
Digitalism have cancelled their forthcoming UK tour»
Kelley Stoltz heads to the UK for May dates
San Franciscan Kelley Stoltz will tour his new album in the UK next month»
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Kimya Dawson will headline this year’s Ladyfest, held from Friday the 9th ‘til Sunday the 11th of May in London»
Fee fighters: Field Day tickets onsale at face value across London
If paying inordinate amounts of money to thieving ticket vendors has lost what early charm it had, a brief respite comes with the news that from next week Field Day tickets will be available in the flesh, at face value from a number of outlets across London»
Laura Marling, Los Campesinos!, more announced for Green Man 2008
New bands galore for this year’s Green Man Festival»
Watch: Frightened Rabbit in session at SXSW
Recording 'Heads Roll Off' for WOXY.com»
EMI to issue Radiohead 'Best Of...' DVD
Not so much flogging a bolted horse as tearing out its eyeballs for ping pong balls, EMI have announced that they’ll be releasing a Radiohead Best Of… DVD alongside the forthcoming double CD»
Watch: new Animal Collective video
The 'Water Curses' EP is out through Domino on the 5th of May»
Kling Klang vs. Kraftwerk: kleared up
Kling Klang have distanced themselves from comments made by their management last week regarding the chances of their being sued by Kraftwerk»
Pure Groove winds down Archway stint with live tomfoolery
There’s one less reason to live in Archway, now that Pure Groove is moving a bus ride away down to a new site in Farringdon. But with that comes a few reasons to stay put for the next ten days or so, as the record shop fanfares its departure with a series of live events»
Field Day gets better: Les Savy Fav, Laura Marling, Cut Copy
For those of you not reading the boards or the odd, stray Rough Trade email - Les Savy Fav, Cut Copy and Laura Marling have joined the ranks of those playing Field Day this year»
Land of Talk: band of action
Land of Talk will play a number of shows across the UK next month, as they gear up for a year of new releases»
The Courteeners announce October tour
The Courteeners have announced an autumn tour»
Glastonbullied: Now Eavis is being attacked for trying to thwart tout scum
Sceptics return for another bout of hippy-kicking today, rapping Michael Eavis across the shins and berating him for the pioneering ticket registration scheme the Glastonbury organiser implemented last year»
Seems British Sea Power are a pretty big deal now
British Sea Power have announced an October tour»
Iggy and the Stooges headlining Get Loaded in the Park 2008
Iggy and the Stooges will headline this year’s Get Loaded in the Park festival»
The great iLiKETRAiNS robbery: band mugged by fake Italian policemen
Thieving cads posing as policemen managed to steal an entire night’s gig takings from iLiKETRAiNS in Italy last week»
Watch: new Crystal Castles video
Crystal Castles are, by all accounts, difficult sods. But you can afford to be, I suppose, when you're releasing singles as good as 'Courtship Dating' out into the world»
Portishead's new album, streaming for free a week before release at Last.fm
Keen to hear the new Portishead album before it’s released later this month? Haven’t half-inched it from the internet? Third will be streamed in its entirety at Last.fm from the 21st of April»
Exclusive: The Lemonheads to reprise classic album at Truck 2008
Event organisers are very excited to announce that The Lemonheads will be headlining the Saturday night of the 11th Truck Festival»