Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Manchester punk legends Buzzcocks are mounting a 22-date North American tour where they'll play their first two albums, Another Music in a Different Kitchen and Love Bites (both released in 1978) in their entirety "plus other hits."... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) British punk legends Buzzcocks [ tickets ] will launch a North American version of their "Another Bites Tour" this spring, playing their first two albums in full for fans in the US and Canada. more info

Guardian Music — Punk-poppers, a rare UK signing to Sub PopWho are they?New signings to Sub Pop, a trio – John Arthur Webb (guitars, vocals), Kevin Hendrick (bass, vocals) and Robin Silas Christian (drums) – whose full-pelt, subterranean punk-pop harbou... more info

Guardian Music — Wayne Hemingway says new Vintage at Goodwood festival will celebrate British creativity from the 40s to the 80sThe celebrated English fashion designer Wayne Hemingway knows who won't be interested in his new summer festival: the teenager "who's out o... more info

Guardian Music — If the music industry hype-cycle continues to gather speed, this time next year we could be experiencing nostalgia for an era that hasn't even dawned yet"Everything is more beautiful in the past," Midlake's Tim Smith tells Andy Gill, in the current i... more info

Guardian Music — Never mind the Buzzcocks … or Stone Roses, or New Order: Manchester can stop trading on its former glories. Three new bands explain how they are reinventing the city's musicThere's an old adage in the trades (the music business, newspapers and ... more info

Live Daily — NOFX [ tickets ] joined the roster for the West Coast edition of the MUSINK Tattoo Convention and Music Festival, scheduled for Feb. 19-21 at the Orange County Fair & Exposition Center in Costa Mesa, CA. The punk rockers join previously announced ... more info

Fantastic Weapon — I get really, really skeptical when bands who send me music to review list REALLY GOOD artists under their "Influences." So I was immediately expecting an aural atrocity when I visited Daddy Lion's myspace page and they had the following artists list... more info

Guardian Music — These punky popsters aspire to be Roxy Music, but end up sounding like Menswear ... only not as goodHometown: Woodbridge, Suffolk.The lineup: Christian (guitar), Charlie (vocals, guitar), Rory (vocals), Ali (drums) and Thom (bass).The background: The... more info

Guardian Music — Sam Taylor-Wood tackles the troubled teenage years of lairy, mouthy John Lennon in her debut. By Peter BradshawOf all Anthony Minghella's legacies to the world of cinema, among the most valuable may yet turn out to be the movie career of Sam Taylor W... more info