Guardian Music — The Old Queen's Head in north London's Islington is the venue for the first Extra band night. The gig features The Wave Pictures plus a supporting act, Idiot Glee.Extra, in association with Moshi Moshi Records, has arranged an exclusive gig for membe... more info

Guardian Music — Founder of the Big Chill festival on why he's moved on to Pic-Nic VillageUnlike most festivals, the Big Chill wasn't financed as a festival. It was started out of a flat in Finsbury Park; we had no capital behind it at all. We'd started in 1994 at th... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — John Doran restarts our Unspun Heroes series with a look at Eno and Byrne's seminal album, 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts' - a huge influence on artists like Gold Panda, Rainbow Arabia, Burial and Salem. 'My Life In The Book Of Ghosts' was originall... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Brian Eno's new album, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, comes out November 2nd on Warp Records (that's the cover above). On it, Brian Eno worked with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams. Eno described the process of recording the... more info

Guardian Music — Paul Morley asks Darkstar what a post-dubstep world sounds like If Magnetic Man boldly announce that where you go after dubstep is right into the very manufactured heart of the middle of the flaring, spluttering spectacle of pop, ticking off for real... more info

Undercover, Australia — Legendary producer and composer Brian Eno streams a new track on his website. more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, that they just can't turn offBritish Sea Power Zeus This rollicking slab of art-rock is the title track of the Cumbrians' new EP, which is out next week. You can currently download the song for fre... more info

XLR8R — It was the news heard 'round the blogosphere: Brian Eno is going to release a new album via Warp. We're sure just about everyone is still dying to hear what that record will sound like, so rejoice, we've got the first leak from it righ... more info

Silent Uproar — Warp Records and Brian Eno have released the first track, "2 Forms of Anger," from Eno's forthcoming album, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, on SoundCloud. The album is out November 2nd. [soundcloud.com] more info

Stereogum — “2 Forms of Anger” shows up toward the middle of Brian Eno’s forthcoming Warp debut Small Craft On A Milk Sea. It’s a good track — percussive, atmospheric, and slicingly No New York in the guitars with a ton of forward momentum. Maybe the R... more info