Sweeping The Nation — Onwards with our overview of the decade just passing, and today we alight on the year we were confidently repeatedly told that Jessie J was inevitably going to be an enormous international star. She did have a Billboard top ten album in 2014, but whe... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Her ParentsFrom: John Peels Dreams, United KingdomWith their wit, humour and the odd dash of vitriol noisy art punks Her Parents are the sort of band that would have been a permanent feature in John Peel's Festive Fifty. These refugees from Danananan... more info

Guardian Music — They began the year hyped to the rafters and hungry for fame, but are Spector already resigned to failure?You could, if you were so minded, infer a lot from the title of Spector's debut album. The east London quintet began the year on the BBC Sound... more info

Guardian Music — Pitbull shouts, Ed Sheeran strums, and everything comes with a gloomwobbleIt takes a few years' distance to look back on a year and define what it really sounded like, but the three front-running noises for 2011 are Pitbull shouting about being in th... more info

Altsounds — Turbowolf are once again on a mission to melt faces with their brand new video for Read and Write, expertly directed by Stephen Agnew who has made memorable videos for bands such as The Futureheads, Dananananaykroyd and The Vaccines. Read and Write i... more info

The Music Fix — Scots go out with a bang. more info

NME — Scottish band will part ways after their tour ends in November more info

Gigwise — Band decide to call it a day... more info

DrownedInSound — As we said when talking about Leeds's Constellations Festival, the season of the musical jolly is not completely over. There's even more to come, especially in Leeds, where the sixth edition of Brainwash will take place from October 14-16. There's ju... more info

Guardian Music — What was once a gimmick can now be just good marketing. And don't forget the Beatles was a naff pun onceMeet From Jethro Tull through the Beau Brummels to Franz Ferdinand, bands have long appropriated real names from history. In recent years, though,... more info