BBC News - UK — With Neil Hannon, Amanda Palmer, John Cale, Marc Almond, Paul Buchanan, Anna Calvi and the musicians' collective s t a r g a z e conducted by André de Ridder. more info

The Quietus — Band team up with Anna Calvi on new single; listen below more info

Stereogum — The Invisible, the genre-blurring London trio, have just announced plans for a new album called Patience, which is set to arrive this summer. The new LP follows up 2012’s Rispah, and it features contributions from people like Floating Points, Conna... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — PLUS: Stream Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff's new Bowie covers EP photo: Pixies in Asbury Park in 2015 (more by PSquared) The lineups for the David Bowie tribute shows at Carnegie Hall (3/31) and Radio City (4/1) have been expanded.... more info

Nialler9 — One of my favourite new Irish artists, Patrick O’Laoghaire aka I Have A Tribe has an EP coming on December 4th on Grönland Records, with production by Rob Ellis who has recently worked with Anna Calvi and Bat For Lashes. Earlier this year, he stun... more info

Nialler9 — Anna Calvi, Sam Amidon, Thomas Bartlett, Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens, NYC cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond, Cathal Coughlan of The Fatima Mansions and Microdisney,Adrian Crowley, writer Pat McCabe, and more are to take part in Blood & The M... more info

Nialler9 — Father John Misty is coming back to play Whelan’s in 2015, courtesy of Harmonic presents, for a show in Whelan’s on Sunday February 22nd. Tickets are €20 plus fee on sale Friday November 7th at 9am from Ticketmaster and regular places. He h... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Young Fathers @ Bowery Ballroom (more by Amanda Hatfield) Edinburgh hip hop trio Young Fathers have taken home this year's Mercury Prize, beating out FKA Twigs, Damon Albarn, Bombay Bicycle Club, Anna Calvi & others. The winning album is called... more info

Stereogum — For many Americans, this year’s Mercury Prize nominees comprised a whole lotta “Who the heck is that?” I mean: GoGo Penguin? East India Youth? Polar Bear? Did any of those records even get a Stateside release? Yeah there were a few familiar nam... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Marianne Faithfull will celebrate her 50th anniversary as an artist this year with her 20th album, Give My Love to London, due September 29 via Dramatico in Europe and November 11 via Easy Sound in North America. She had... more info