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Guardian Music — Format, Pet Shop Boys' new B-sides collection, shows how clever artists can make pop gold from a single's flipsideThe one-word titles of Pet Shop Boys albums always repay a second look and so it proves with Format, the name of their second volume of ... more info

Guardian Music — This Bristol band are baggy meets shoegaze: shaggy, perhapsHometown: Weston-Super-Mare.The lineup: James MacLucas (vocals), John Paul Beaumont (guitar), Adam Hastings (bass), Miles Hastings (drums).The background: Twenty years or so ago there was a w... more info

ContactMusic — British musician Graham Coxon is giving fans the chance to appear in his next video by sending him clips of their dancing skills The Blur guitarist is gearing up to release a solo album in April 12 to coincide with his upcoming U K tour Hes alr... more info

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Stopcryingyourheartout.com — He's cleaned up and straightened out, but remarkably, given his own wild past, he despairs of today’s feckless youth...'We were brought up under Thatcher,’ Noel Gallagher is saying.‘There was a work ethic – if you were unemployed, the obsessi... more info

ContactMusic — Blurs Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon will play a charity show ahead of this years BRIT Awards The singer and the guitarist will appear alongside Dry The River and Ed Sheeran at the concert held on February 19 to raise money for the War Child orga... more info

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Guardian Music — (Southern Fried)The enduring appeal of dance music lies in its functionality, its sexual directness and frisson of nocturnal peril. And then there are those soppy, euphoric nights out, captured here by Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and former PR-turned-DJ R... more info