BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — The Blur man spent last week at America's premier music conference South By South West and took some photographs. more info

XFM.co.uk — Tom Clarke plays a surprise set for Xfm Manchester legend Clint Boon. Blur and Oasis get the cover treatment and two big Enemy tunes are wheeled out. more info

NME — The Enemy's Tom Clarke played a secret gig yesterday afternoon (March 21) in Manchester. more info

ContactMusic — Graham Coxon has previewed material from his new album at the South by Southwest festival.The former Blur guitarist played an acoustic set at the event in Austin ... more info

Guardian Music — The relationship between a band and their manager is a lot like a marriage – as the Killers' bitter spat with their ex-manager showsLast month, the Killers filed a counter-suit against their ex-manager, Braden Merrick, seeking compensation for... more info

Ryan's Smashing Life — In Austin this week for SxSW: Sweden's talented song-writer Kristoffer Ragnstam has a new album in time for its songs to rain down upon indie rock audiences at South-by-Southwest this week. "Wrong Side of the Room" (in fine record stores and online ... more info

Idolator — Veering toward "Parklife"-esque satire-laced social commentary, "Alcoholics Unanimous," the first single off the new Frank Black-produced Art Brut album Art Brut vs. Satan (due out May 12) is hardly a glorification of spending your life in a drunken... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Favours For Sailors- Furious Sons.It's rare that a record so rich and deep in melody like Favours For Sailors debut EP comes along that when one does you lose yourself in it completely. 'Furious Sons' is a delightful introduction to a band clearly in... more info

The Independent — In its early, heady days of popularity, New Labour shamelessly deployed the stars of Britpop to drive home the message that it had captured the spirit of the age. Tony Blair told Brit Awards guests that the UK music industry was "once again in its r... more info

Guardian Music — Klaxons' label isn't happy with the, er, experimental nature of the group's new album. They shouldn't worry. Being asked to go back to the drawing board can often be the making of a bandJust 18 months after walking away with the Mercury music prize Ã... more info