NME - Festivals — As 2009's Offset Festival edges ever closer, NME's Leonie Cooper looks at the connoisseur's indie punk-rock line-up and recommends 5 unmissable acts to blow your socks off this weekend (5 - 6 September). Reading and Leeds used to signal the end of t... more info

Clickmusic — Malcolm Middleton and The Loves to play the Marc Riley compered night in Manchester. more info

Guardian Music — As we trekked across yet another field to set up our tents, I thought to myself: 'Am I a musician? Or a rambler?'We started playing festivals about two years ago. I'm slowly getting used to the idea that, in the summer, my job occurs only on the week... more info

The Vinyl Villain — The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed a few minor amendments to the lay-out over on the right-hand side of the blog, and I now have tried to provide direct links to a couple of sites devoted to the lovely boys pictured above.Edwyn Collins has r... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Last week's posting on Geneva made me delve a bit more into the shelf that holds the 5"CD singles and promo discs that aren't in inside plastic cases...and because of this they don't have a place in my anally-retentive alphabetical system. And every... more info

NME — Peter Hook and Clint Boon are both set to be at the unveiling more info

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Totally Fuzzy — Nosi said...Janet Helms: Ship On (1974)http://supersoulsisters.blogspot.comWalker said...Burning Ambitions- a History of Punk (1984) vinyl ripThanks FChttp://burningaquarium.blogspot.commarram62 said...WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS CALL ME BURR0UGHS WILLIAM S... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I rely a lot on other bloggers to keep me up to speed with a lot of things in the musical world of the 21st Century.I was very pleased to read a review of the Blur gig at the Wolverhampton Civic Centre written by Coxon over at To Die By Your Side. S... more info

Guardian Music — We asked guardian.co.uk/music readers to tweet their festival experiences. Here's what they got up to ...We weren't the only people Twittering like mad at this year's Glastonbury festival. Anyone who read their Guide will have noticed we were asking ... more info