Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — The Troggs frontman Reg Presley has been forced to retire from the music business to concentrate on battling lung cancer. more info

ContactMusic — The Troggs frontman Reg Presley has been forced to retire from the music business to concentrate on battling lung cancer The British rocker 70 was treated for pneumonia and fluid on his heart after falling ill last month Dec11 but he has since been g... more info

ContactMusic — British rocker Reg Presley has been hospitalised after suffering a suspected stroke - his second in as many years The Troggs frontman is also being treated for pneumonia and fluid on his heart at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester Engl... more info

ContactMusic — Wet Wet Wet are set to reunite in 2012 for a new album and tour, according to bassist Graeme Clark. The band formed in the 1980s and went on to enjoy huge success in 1994 thanks to their cover of The Troggs' Love Is All Around, which topped charts ar... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonAn indie institution 27 years in the making, Yo La Tengo are gloriously unpredictable. It's often said that no two shows by the New Jersey trio are alike. This is nowhere more apparent than at Sunday's Meltdown show, titled... more info

Guardian Music — Brudenell Social Club, LeedsAtlanta's Black Lips are notorious for their on-stage outrages, including vomiting, urinating and setting fire to guitars. They remain banned from London's Heaven club after their nudity prompted a stage invasion. In 2009,... more info

Guardian Music — The Kills, ManchesterNow that the White Stripes are sadly no more, the Kills – whose singer Alison Mosshart also appears with Jack White in the Dead Weather – have succeeded them as the world's premier scuzz-rock duo who used to sleep together bu... more info

Guardian Music — Why do extraterrestrials seem so keen on our rock stars? The truth is, like, way out there, manWhen aliens tire of abducting, internally investigating, memory-wiping and giving a three-day hangover to the prime specimens of our species – ie meth-ad... more info

Totally Fuzzy — (Photo Jimmy Katz/Courtesy of Nonesuch Records) James Farm's self-titled debut — out April 26 2011 on Nonesuch Records. James Farm is the newish band featuring saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric... more info

Totally Fuzzy — hanalex said... Poco - A Good Feelin' To Know (1972) [wv] Hardin & York - Tomorrow Today (1969) [ape] The Very Best Of Wilson Pickett (1993) [flac] http://boyzmakenoyze.blogspot.com Ralph Dodger said... A Ratcat post on Shoulda been huge? For a few ... more info