Guardian Music — For their guardian.co.uk/music takeover, the Cribs commissioned a blog from one of their favourite writers, Everett True. They said he could pick his subject matter, so Everett chose to debunk the myths of Riot GrrrlYou read a lot of stuff about Riot... more info

Guardian Music — As part of their guardian.co.uk/music takeover, the Cribs hand our regular Label of love feature over to the label they're signed to, WichitaMany of the best labels of the past 30 years, from Factory to Postcard, have had a "label sound", but Wichita... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Squeezing the last blood from the Summer festival stone is London’s Offset, a two day event with one of the best alternative line-ups of the whole season. Forcing the Shoreditch glitterati up against hardcore bands such as Rolo Tomassi and mor... more info

Unreality Music — I got an email from a reader yesterday recommending I check out the excellent This Is A Shakedown and their video for Circles. When I listen to this, I get a distinct Bloc Party vibe, which is not a criticism! According to our source, Circles is the... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Have Editors been hanging out with Bloc Party? Who gave them the synths?? A new song has surfaced called “Papillon”, and it is very different from anything the Editors have ever done. It is very “new wave” and definitely a big departure from ... more info

XFM.co.uk — The band will "re-group" after this tour... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The French promoter faced with paying a refund to each of the 30,000-plus music fans who turned up in Paris to see Oasis says he has no plans to take legal action against the band.Salomon Hazot of Nous Productions, who has run the city’s Rock ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Bloc Party have revealed they had to tell fans that Oasis wouldn't be coming on after them in Paris last Friday. The band split just before they were due to play at the Rock en Seine concert. Bloc Party front man Kele and drummer Matt said they didn'... more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Bloc Party singer Kele has revealed that it was left up to him to tell the crowd at a concert in Paris last Friday that Oasis had cancelled their appearance after they split up before the gig. more info

Guardian Music — From Karen O's costume changes to Kings of Leon's blue-collar belters, share with us your festival highlightsReading and Leeds 2009 proved to be a weekend of immense highs and lows, and that was just the GCSE results. There were surprise slots from T... more info