411 Mania — Even after this summer... more info

Guardian Music — The anarchic LA duo on learning from the White Stripes, fitting a career around school, and not taking their career too seriously'We've been doing this for 20 years," says Mikaiah Leh, one half of the Los Angeles duo the Bots. "So it kinda got seriou... more info

Guardian Music — Menswear were to Blur what the Monkees were to the Beatles, a band that became popular when times were goodJust a week after a track by Damon Albarn, formerly of Blur, was chosen to mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC, it appears that congratulation... more info

Guardian Music — They made some of the cleverest and most inventive music of the 70s, but split up at the height of their success. 10cc come together for the first time in 36 years to explain where it went wrongForget the Stone Roses' comeback and the mooted (and den... more info

Guardian Music — Meet the Mancunians who are establishing a new order of New Order – all fizzy, Balearic, dance-pop thrillsReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Manchester.The lineup: Sam Hammond (vocals), Tim Estherby (keyboards), Luke Daniel (guitar), Nic Kozub... more info

NME - Radar — Meet The Child Of Lov. That’s him above – well, that’s his chin and torso, to be absolutely precise. He’s choosing to keep the rest a secret for now. While the anonymous shtick of WU LYF, iamamiwhoami, Evian Christ et al may be somewhat tires... more info

Guardian Music — Alexandra Palace, London"I'm nobody's hero," hollers Justin Young during Teenage Icon, the self-deprecating centrepiece of the Vaccines' second album, Come of Age. Some 10,000 lager-flinging addicts, bawling along, beg to differ. For all of the new a... more info

Guardian Music — Former 'saviour of UK rock' Luke Haines has never followed the unwritten rules of pop, as a surreal concept album provesTwenty years after Britpop began, Damon Albarn is planning more gigs with Blur, Brett Anderson's Suede are recording a new albumâ€... more info

Guardian Music — (Ministry of Sound)Judging by the readers' comments, Example won few friends in a recent Guardian interview. But the consensus – that the Fulham singer/rapper is an unpleasant hardnut – could be overturned by his fourth album, which is loaded wit... more info

Consequence of Sound — From the Poetry Olympics to the real Olympics. more info