Guardian Music — Produced by Alex Kapranos, this promising lot operate a hair's breadth from Franz Ferdinand's funkily acerbic styleHometown: London.The lineup: Martyn, Thom, Tom, Lawrence, Mike.The background: They're evidently running out of band names. There's jus... more info

Guardian Music — Music of refinement and learning, with a bossa nova twistThe many young Japanese in the audience confirmed the interest pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto still prompts. He was idolised in the days of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, an electro-pop t... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Amy Walker Good Frames is the project of Berlin based musician Frank Cifarelli. He put in a lot of time and effort playing, programming and producing his debut EP Still. Eighties New Wave is a huge, with a hint of Euro disco thrown in, especi... more info

Guardian Music — On her covers album of 80s alt-anthems, Amelia Warner transforms synthetic songs into pure-voiced, piano balladsHometown: Herefordshire.The lineup: Amelia Warner (vocals, piano).The background: You may not have heard of Amelia Warner, who goes by the... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonReceiving its world premiere in this BBC Symphony Orchestra programme under Jiří Bělohlávek was C, by Jiří Kadeřábek. The 33-year-old Czech composer comes from a jazz/pop background and acknowledges such widely divergent influ... more info

Perez Hilton — How rude!!! Police in Bowie, Maryland are on the hunt for two big, old meanies who actually stole from a group of Girl Scouts selling cookies. Last week, the troop was outside a local Wal-Mart, bringing joy, happiness and Thin Mints to their neighbor... more info

Chorus.fm — Watch *The Horrors* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thehorrors) cover *David Bowie* (http://www.davidbowie.com)'s "Suffragette City" live in session for On Track with SEAT in the replies. more info

Stereogum — Here we are with the Horrors, adepts of fashionable retro-rock synthesis, adeptly tackling Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust wham-bam-thank-you-mammer for Channel 4′s On Track… programme. It’s a live take, but recorded in LDN’s Metropolis studio with ... more info

NME — See Faris Badwan and co rework the Thin White Duke's classic more info

Guardian Music — Should anything really matter other than the quality of the new star's songs, asks our anonymous correspondentWhen our band started we were lucky to gain a small online following before anything else. This support actually pushed us into doing it for... more info