Kerrang! — The Blackout have announced a worldwide deal with Epitaph. They join Brighton's The Ghost Of A Thousand, who announced their deal last week, on the label founded by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. “The band are over the moon,” s... more info

Kerrang! — Welsh metal titans Bullet For My Valentine will headline the Kerrang! night of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust shows. The band will play London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday March 28 to help raise money and awareness for the charity. "It's a real... more info

Stereogum — Swan Lake, the Canadian power trio of Daniel Bejar (New Pornographers, Destroyer), Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown), and Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Blackout Beach), are releasing their second album Enemy Mine at the end of March (3/24, Jag... more info

NME - Radar — “Donk” is the sound you get when you whack a drainpipe with a table tennis paddle. Somehow that sound worked its way onto an early '90s keyboard, which was employed by certain dance music producers like Ultrabeat as the pulse for their burgeoning... more info

Guardian Music — This week's edition of Music Weekly features two female artists from opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. First up is Candi Staton, first lady of country soul and the voice behind numerous dancefloor fillers. Staton has just released her latest al... more info

Pop Justice — 1. Marina We're going to do a seperate thing about her later today (we just can't help following Perez's tips!!!) so... more info

Discobelle.net — The Metronomy single “A Thing For Me” has been remixed en masse but none of the remixes have added such fast pace as this wild and ravey (donk?) number from Blackout Crew (we haven’t heard of them before but they sure grabbed our attention with... more info

Pop Justice — Millions of years after the human race as we know it has died out, future civilsations will unravel the complexities... more info

Sky News — The trial of a taxi driver accused of drugging and sexually abusing passengers has heard evidence from a second woman who says she suffered an ordeal in his cab. more info

My Old Kentucky — The National's new song So Far Around The Bend, from the Dark Was The Night HIV/AIDS awareness charity compilation is streaming on MySpace. It's pretty excellent and gets me gassed for a new one from these guys!How to Watch the Inauguration Online..... more info