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Here Comes The Flood — Watch the new Maximo Park video for The Undercurrents, taken from the album The National Health. The UK pop quintet will be on the road in Europe and Australia. European tour: 10/11 Lisbon, Portugal @ TMN ao Vivo 10/12 Madrid, Spain @ Sala Arena... more info

Guardian Music — The former Sex Pistols lead singer is bringing his band to the Split Festival to the delight of music fans, new guest blogger James Hunt reportsFormer Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Lydon will be on stage this weekend at Sunderland's Split Festival.Lydo... more info

Prefix — Photo gallery of Maximo Park, Zambri, Stagnant Pools more info

Guardian Music — My week of making music with a whole world of musiciansDay 1Walking into the first rehearsal I didn't realise this was really the start of my "favourite week ever'' (which, if my wife asks, was our honeymoon). I managed to miss the train's departure ... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Video of the DayArtist: Maixmo Park Video: "Hips and Lips" Highlight: "A lot of our videos have focused on the intensity of our performances and so this time we wanted to have a fun video undercut by a darker, more obsessive thread that ... more info

AbsolutePunk — Today's interview from the random questionnaire offered to any and all bands comes from *Maximo Park* (http://www.MaximoPark.com). You can read the interview here (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2831552). more info

Guardian Music — A centrepiece of the BBC and Arts Council's digital project The Space is set to blow the region away. Dan Carson takes a lookHere in the North East, we're well accustomed to music development agency Generator and Northern Film & Media stoking the reg... more info

Popdose — Frontmen around the world should take a cue from Paul Smith, singer/wordsmith extraordinaire of Maximo Park, and learn to take a step away and do that solo album you always talk about so you can come back to your original band re-energized and refoc more info

DrownedInSound — A return to some semblance of form for a band that was coasting to oblivion after 2009’s Quicken the Heart. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info