Guardian Music — The trend for bands offering glorified bootlegs of their own gigs ignores why we go in the first place – to construct our own idealised version of a great live experienceFranz Ferdinand are the latest in an increasingly long line of bands offe... more info

NME — The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Klaxons, Moby, The Ting Tings and Orbital are among the bands confirmed to play at the Romanian event B'estfest. more info

JamBase — THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, DEVENDRA BANHART, ETIENNE DE CRECY THE ORB, MURDER CITY DEVILS, BUSY P AND PLUMP DJs ADDED TO THE COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 2009 APRIL 17, 18 AND 19 Coachella 2008 by Dave Vann The Chemical Brothers (DJ ... more info

The Music Fix — Gig Review: Ian Sandwell tries to maintain his objectivity as he reviews the London date of one of his current favourite bands. more info

Guardian Music — In a departure from Jay-Z's billing at last year's festival, the Canadian guitar legend completes the trio of headline acts alongside Bruce Springsteen and the recently reunited BlurGlastonbury organisers have today confirmed that Neil Young will be ... more info

The Music Fix — News: Franz Ferdinand are offering fans the chance to purchase double-CD mementoes of recent live dates in a partnership with Live Here Now. The following shows have been (or will be) recorded: Glasgow Barrowlands 4/3/2009 Glasgow Barrowlands 5/3/20... more info

Guardian Music — Erol Alkan and Richard Norris have a theory about Summers of Love. "They happen every 21 years," says Norris. "1967 was 21 years before 1988, and 21 years after that is 2009. It's going to be the Third Summer of Love." This isn't perhaps an idea that... more info

The Music Fix — Competition: The Music Fix has two copies of Beyond The Wizards Sleeve's Re-Animations Vol. 1 to give away. The album includes remixes of Peter, Bjorn And John's Young Folks, Goldfrapp's Happiness and Franz Ferdinand's Ulysses. You can read our rev... more info

NME - Pinglewood — Inspired by the post about Your Twenties' infatuation with Elastica, here are some of my favourite inter-band musical love letters (the ones I could find on YouTube). LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House "All the robots descend from t... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — All of The Big Pink's good photo's won't upload on here and the rest are blurry and/ or rubbish so I'm going to have to embarrass Robbie Furze,one half of the band, by adding a picture of him with Lily Allen who he briefly dated last year. Sorry (E-m... more info