Powerpopulist — Hard to believe we began this list back in early February. Tuff stuff, though, so we do not carp but, rather, thank the superb bloggers who finessed these songs into downloadability. Toma - Going Nowhere - Fingertips Terror Watts - So Alone - Rollo... more info

Sweeping The Nation — As promised when we did 1970 on Good Friday, the other end of our forty-year spectrum and a list notably more biased than most, even if its span is only the last five years, towards what STN was writing about at the time anyway. The Big Pink were the... more info

DrownedInSound — Star-shaped indeed more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Onetime Pipette member Rose Elinor Dougall will release her second solo album, Stellular, on January 27 via her own Vermillion records. It's been six years since her solo debut, Without Why, but she's been busy, collaborating with Mark Rons... more info

DrownedInSound — The former Pipette returns with her second solo outing, a pop masterpiece that rockets in several different directions more info

Sweeping The Nation — Having expounded the virtues of always writing in detail about new songs, here's a quick whip through the best of the load of new songs that have emerged in just the last few weeks. Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures - I Wanted You Brinks is An... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Albums there are dates for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wigout At Jagbags (6th January)Broken Bells – After The Disco (13th January)East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (13th January)I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro (20th January)Mogwai - Rave Ta... more info

Sweeping The Nation — After a stint as part of the Mark Ronson charabanc and having watched her brother become the famous one with Toy it does seem a while since Dougall has been around but this first taste of a second album we know nothing else about yet is a fine step o... more info

Guardian Music — These mavens of motorik like to draw on rock history – and they certainly look the part, like members of a 1972 krautrock bandHometown: London.The lineup: Tom Dougall (vocals, guitar), Dominic O'Dair (guitars), Maxim Barron (bass, vocals), Alejandr... more info

NME - Radar — We love the Great Escape, we do. Our memories of the Brighton bash are usually clouded by how pissed we've got though (so: falling asleep during Rose Elinor Dougall's set a few years ago, getting lost in the Dome a'la Spinal Tap, running away from Fi... more info