Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - Alexis from Hot Chip's new band - About Group - will also play the one day festival on Clapham Common in June... more info

Guardian Music — Heaven, LondonDespite a gold debut album and Brit and Mercury nominations, Friendly Fires are still a long way from household-name status – something the St Albans trio intend to rectify. Singer Ed Macfarlane recently claimed his band are "the new ... more info

Guardian Music — The lead singer of Hot Chip and About Group talks about his current favourite spinsI Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton I love this as much for the song as for the beautiful, fluid guitar lines that open it. A wonderful record.Follow Me by Aly-Us ... more info

Guardian Music — The comedian has recently turned his hand to directing music videos – with spectacularly odd results. We asked him how it feels to step into a boxing ring with a robotShaun of the Dead, Alan Partridge, the voice of Darth Maul ... Peter Serafinowicz... more info

Guardian Music — (Big Dada)Ipswich rapper DELS bubbled up in early 2008 with a fun but forgettable track called "Lazy" produced by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip. Three years on, his debut LP, also featuring Goddard, shows that serious advances have been made. DELS can stil... more info

Guardian Music — Why can't we get our music-video fix all in the same place?If you're among the hundreds of millions who've watched music videos from acts such as Eminem or Lady Gaga on YouTube over the last year, you might have noticed a logo for Vevo in the bottom ... more info

Nialler9 — After his music video work for Sarsparilla (now Diamond Dagger) and Deep Burial, Fergal Brennan gets into stop-motion mode for the latest Shit Robot video featuring Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip. With help from Graham Lambkin, Peter Symes, Elizabeth Bren... more info

XLR8R — DFA's long-standing craftsman of classic-tinged dance tracks Shit Robot has dropped this video for the track "Losing My Patience" from the producer's 2010 full-length, From the Cradle to the Rave. The slickly produced quasi-techno tune tha... more info

The Music Fix — Improv supergroup featuring members of Hot Chip, This Heat and Spiritualized enter the studio. more info

NME — Guy Bolongaro documentary to be screened in London tomorrow (April 18) more info