Undercover, Australia — Manchester band Doves are so happy with their fourth album that their celebrations would shock the World Health Organisation (not that hard...) and probably their mothers as well. more info

NME — Plus there's high entries for Doves, Bat For Lashes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs more info

Q4Music — Catch The Sun, well that and all of the Doves' best tracks and their respective videos. more info

XFM.co.uk — The "back-to-basics" festival unveils its line-up for 2009... more info

Gigwise — The initial line up is announced... more info

Q4Music — Guitarist Jez on new album Kingdom Of Rust more info

NME — Pigeon Detective, Howling Bells and more for Kent festival more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Back in the early days of rock and roll, bands were required to release a few albums a year--not to mention additional EPs, singles, and fan-club exclusives. Not so in the 21st century, as groups tinker on the margins like... continue... more info

Rolling Stone — In this week’s New Music Report, Rolling Stone’s Kevin O’Donnell takes a look at Metric’s new album Fantasies, and the band provides some insight into the writing of single “Gimme Sympathy” in a video interview. Metric’s Emily Haines an... more info

Perfect Porridge — So many music reviews are filled with superlatives and masturbatory references. I’m going to try something new — full album reviews in haiku form… First up is UK trio Doves’s new album (out yesterday), Kingdom of Rust: UK “cool” (with lo... more info