Guardian Music — (Kitsune)Two Door Cinema Club's boisterous gigs belie the shy, understated young men on stage. Similarly, and like 2010's successful debut, Tourist History, Beacon combines uplifting electro pop with introspective, melancholy undercurrents. The like... more info

Guardian Music — Sales of tracks used in Danny Boyle's opening ceremony have surged, plus five featured songs – including Arctic Monkeys' cover of Beatles' Come Together – will chart in Top 40Over 50 British songs employed in the soundtrack to the opening ceremon... more info

Guardian Music — Serious and silly, subversive and mainstream, high and low: Danny Boyle's bonkers Olympics opening ceremony could only have been made by a British artistThe NHS, gay kisses; the Sex Pistols, Ken Loach; the Windrush, the Suffragette movement. As Danny... more info

Guardian Music — Inventive effort to tell a thousand small stories in event expected to be watched by 1 billion people worldwideFrom a bucolic green and pleasant land via the belching chimney stacks of the Industrial Revolution to the internet age, Danny Boyle's atte... more info

Guardian Music — Director Danny Boyle reveals plans for London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, including village cricket, maypoles and rainA village cricket team, 12 horses, 10 chickens, 70 sheep, a model of Glastonbury Tor, two mosh pits and the largest harmonically ... more info

Metalsucks — In my heart is a cherished memory of this two-day metal festival I attended in like 2001. The big headliners were predictably exciting, but I arrived before lunch to take in sets from then-fledgling acts Dillinger Escape Plan, Shadows Fall, and that... more info

Metalsucks — Veil of Maya, Eluveitie, Corrosion of Conformity and Napalm Death all had big debuts last week, while Asphyx, Caliban, Pallbearer and Christian Mistress all eked into the Current Hard Music Top 100 as well. A good week all around. Let’s take a loo... more info

Metalsucks — Last week we noticed that a few new Century Media releases — new albums by The Devastated and Caliban, and a single by Rise to Remain — had appeared on Spotify. We wondered whether Century had adopted a policy of posting albums by upcoming and/o... more info

Metalsucks — Much has been made of Century Media’s very public anti-Spotify stance on MetalSucks, and as such there’s really no need to repeat it again here. Now it appears as if Century might be having a change of heart, but only if they believe your band i... more info

Chorus.fm — *Caliban* (http://www.calibanmetal.com/)'s music video for "Memorial" can be seen in the replies. more info