Gigwise — LP produced by Metronomy's Joesph Mount... more info

Guardian Music — (Strut)After a delay of more than 20 years, there's a new album from one of West Africa's great dance bands. Formerly known as TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – TP standing for "tout puissant" or "all powerful", and Cotonou being the largest ci... more info

Guardian Music — The ageing players of Orchestre Poly-Rythmo have regrouped – with the help of Franz FerdinandOvernight success can take years. For the members of Benin's Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, it has taken more than 40 of them. Just as Cuba's Buena Vi... more info

Guardian Music — Texan festival is known for making or breaking actsA roster of new acts hoping to export their British brand of music to big-spending audiences across the Atlantic are heading to the Texas city of Austin this week to play their hearts out in bar-room... more info

Guardian Music — As psych-pop recluse Jeff Mangum returns, Mark Beaumont weighs up the influence of Neutral Milk Hotel and Elephant 6, while below Martin Aston talks to a kindred spirit, Bradford Cox of DeerhunterFor a certain breed of music fan, it was like hearin... more info

Abeano — When we first heard Outfit and their misty, overcast art-rock we immediately whacked their name into the nearest search engine and waited for the results to appear. Several searches later and still the internet had given us nothing to click thro... more info

Unreality Music — On the 12th of March, Valencia will hold a new MTV Winter Festival's edition at the impressive architectural complex of The City of Arts and Sciences. Artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Arctic M... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Fermo said... The Rippingtons - Life in the Tropics (2000) Genre: Smooth jazz http://electronicjazzproject.blogspot.com Pinhead said... Red Red Wine On A Sunday #77 Live - Valentine Here's the Playlist: The List, The Fags, The Fags (EP) Tura Satana,... more info

Guardian Music — Academy, ManchesterIt's become a tradition on the annual NME awards tour that anyone arriving shortly after the doors open into a half-empty venue will be rewarded with a glimpse of the next big thing. Following previous incumbents Franz Ferdinand an... more info

Abeano — Erol Alkan has remixed Tame Impala’s Innerspeaker track ‘Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind’. Like all of his takes on rock songs (remember falling all over the dancefloor to his Bloc Party reworking? Bouncing to a Klaxons edit? Saying WHA... more info