Crystal Castles, Futureheads, These New Puritans to headline for DiS at Great Escape: line-up here
As promised yesterday, here is DrownedinSound’s line-up for this year’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton»
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Bat For Lashes announces pair of Radiohead warm-up dates
Bat For Lashes has announced a pair of live shows for June»
Beirut cancels all European summer shows, including Green Man headline slot
Beirut have cancelled every European date they had scheduled for this summer, including a headline slot at Green Man festival and a previously rescheduled German tour»
'That's an original bill, Connect. Oh no, wait, it's exactly the same as every other festival's'
Connect Festival has announced some of the band’s to fill its bill this summer»
Reading and Leeds sell out in record time
Reading and Leeds Festival have sold out in record time»
Brazil comes to London for a week at the ICA
The ICA will kick off a new art and cinema exhibition focused on the young people of Recife, Brazil with a 10th anniversary special club night paying homage to the music of the region»
Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell to be brutally murdered
To hell with media responsibility. DrownedinSound has waited so long to type out that headline that as we did our knuckles hummed with a kind of cathartic euphoria. Even if the ‘murder’ in question will take place in front of cameras, on a film set, for Irvine Welsh’s new film»
Hot Chip, Sigur Ros, Gnarls Barkley and el Guincho make Benicassim even better
Spain’s the place to be this summer, it seems, as an impressive array of acts are freshly confirmed for this year’s Benicassim festival»
Watch: new Phosphorescent video
Watch Matthew Houck horse around in the snow with a taxidermist in the new Phosphorescent video»
Court out: Morrissey isn't a racist any more, say Word Magazine
href=http://drownedinsound.com/articles/2643072 target=_blank>Remember when NME said Morrissey was a racist? Well, that’s simply not the case, a court heard today»
Jay-Z worth $30million more than Madonna
First Madonna ($120m), then U2 (undisclosed) and now Jay-Z - the rapper is expected to sign a 10-year-deal with Live Nation worth $150m»
New Neil Young album on the way
Neil Young and Crazy Horse are putting the finishing touches to a new album, set for release soon»
Eugene McGuinness to open Great Escape festival for DrownedinSound - full announcement tomorrow
DrownedinSound is delighted to announce that Eugene McGuinness will raise the curtain on this year’s festival for us, with the rest of our bill announced tomorrow morning»
Trashy mouth: Stephen Malkmus a ‘bitch’, says Kim Deal
Two of indie-rock’s most elegant veterans have been slinging dirt clods at each other. Kim Deal of Pixies and The Breeders has accused Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus of “being a bit of a bitch” in an interview with Time Out»
B-52’s head out on tour amid apostrophe furore
Is it The B-52's or The B-52s heading to the UK for a quartet of live shows? Is there no end to the tumult»
Youthmovies: Tired Irie replaced by House of Brothers for tomorrow's London show
Casting minds back through the mists of time, you may recall that we ran a news story about Youthmovies, Tired Irie and Lovvers playing a show at the ICA in London this month»
WIN! Tickets to a show on 65daysofstatic's April tour
Returning to more modest venues after their arena tour with The Cure, 65daysofstatic will play dates in April – want to go?»
Weezer – the Red Album? And other folly
Big Weezer news to report, if you haven’t heard already – the new album will be called Weezer. Note the italics»
EMI announce tracklist for Radiohead 'Best Of'; part one - which disc is better?
Radiohead’s EMI-released Best Of is available from the 2nd of April – that much, we knew – but now the tracklisting for the double disc set has been announced»
New York Dolls, Lightspeed Champion, Siouxsie and more join Morrissey at Wireless 2008
The ominously-dubbed Morrissey day at Wireless has attracted new names, and they’re pretty damn punk - Siouxsie! New York Dolls! Dirty Pretty Things!»
Velvet Revolver split with vocalist Scott Weiland
Moving from Los Campesinos! to Slash in one short skip – oh, the joys of this job – DrownedinSound can report that vocalist Scott Weiland has left Velvet Revolver, seemingly to reunite with former band Stone Temple Pilots»
Watch: new Los Campesinos! video
Los Campesinos! are back with a new video, sounding more like LIghtyear than ever before»
Truck festival tickets on sale tomorrow, Lightspeed Champion confirmed to headline WOOD
Tickets for the eleventh Truck Festival go on sale tomorrow»
Grinderman eye-up Santogold as Summercase hots up
More names have been added to the bill for this year's Summercase»
WIN! Tickets to see Mystery Jets, New Young Pony Club and cabaret acts in Glasgow
Smirnoff’s Electric Cabaret returns to Glasgow later this month, hauling a fine evening’s entertainment along with it»
Lily Allen gets 'boob' out in front of TV audience, plays with it, given another series on the BBC
That’s show business we suppose. Lily Allen, the new face of BBC3, has seen her woeful TV show given a boost by the announcement today that it’ll be allowed to limp on into a second series»
Mae Shi and Johnny Foreigner bunk up together for DrownedinSound live tour
Following our recent sponsorship of Yeasayer’s UK tour, DrownedinSound is pleased to find new missionaries to bear our sandwich boards around the isle in The Mae Shi and Johnny Foreigner»
Ridiculous news bulletin: Will Young and Battles announced for T in the Park
The T in the Park have been back at the Benzedrine, announcing Will Young and Battles on the same day»
Liars, No Age, Xiu Xiu and loads more appear on free Björk covers record
Stereogum have pulled together a fine line-up of acts to contribute to a downloadable tribute to Björk’s 1995 album Post»
Fleet Foxes ready debut album
With rear ends firmly plonked on the hype machine’s ferris wheel after this glowing Pitchfork review, Seattle’s Fleet Foxes have moved quickly to the stage where they announce their debut album»