MTV.co.uk News — JLS member Aston has bought a new car to help him get over a recent relationship break-up, according to reports. The Beat Again star split from Madison Welch of new girlband Miss Millionaire after... more info

TMZ — Filed under: Dave Wakeling, Memba Them, Beauty In the '80s, Dave Wakeling ( right ) became famous as the lead singer of new wave bands The English Beat and General Public with songs like "Mirror in the Bathroom"... more info

KEXP Seattle — In reductivist short-hand, The English Beat are the Rolling Stones of second wave ska. Whereas colleagues The Specials could blend truly personal and compelling B&W movie lyrical vignettes with noir post-punk, the (English) Beat dug deeper into the b... more info

Totally Fuzzy — S R Management said... The Lost Back 2 Back Episode featuring: Sookie, Sookie - Ascots / Waistcoats / John Kay; Another Brick In The Wall - Mostly Autumn / Luther Wright and the Wrongs; Six Days On The Road - Gram Parsons / Taj Mahal; Mexico City - J... more info

Metalsucks — Life is tough for the modern touring metal band, ’cause when you gotta put gas in the van and the 4-6 members of the group are splitting twenty bucks a night, paying for, say, food can become a real problem-o. So even though I’ll only eat at Taco... more info

Altsounds — On *August 30**th** 2010,* prodigious new pop/dance phenomenon *Ezcapade* release their inaugural single *When The Beat Drops*. Three hours later, you'll be asking where you're going to be when…..? Platinum selling and Grammy nominate... more info

Altsounds — 2010 is the 30th Anniversary of one of Ska (and British music's) all time great albums, namely *I Just Can't Stop It* by Birmingham's *The Beat. *To celebrate this milestone, AGMP are proud to announce that *The Beat* will perform the album, in its e... more info

Stereogum — You know Andrew Youssef as the man behind some of Stereogum’s best west coast concert photography. Starting today you’ll see Andrew’s galleries posted under his own byline, with his own short blurbs. Squeeze showed us that the iPad can add some... more info

Totally Fuzzy — RokyManson said... RIP Ben Keith (1937-2010)Neil Young's longtime pedal steel player. Neil Young - Time Fades Away http://djrokymanson.blogspot.com mike-floyd said... ... some lofi experimental pop music from Chicago by: - OREAGANOMICS: Atlas Drugge... more info

Pop Justice — We didn't want to be too quick with our reaction to Robyn's 'Body Talk PT2', partly because we didn't want to rush into saying how amazing it was but also - after listening through it once - because we didn't want to rush into saying that it felt sli... more info