Guardian Music — The digital radio station was only saved from the axe by a listeners' campaign but reaches its 10th birthday in top formBBC 6 Music which faced the axe two years ago celebrates its 10th anniversary on Sunday, and will mark the decade next Friday with... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Times pop music critic Randall Roberts recommends Nashville country band Lambchop's beautiful new record, "Mr. M." more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Times pop music critic Randall Roberts highlights some of the Los Angeles area's best concerts of the spring, as well as new album releases. more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonLondon has always given a warm welcome to Lambchop's country rhythms and skewed realism – and, as singer and guitarist Kurt Wagner takes in the awed crowd, it's clear the feeling is mutual. "A lot of cool stuff has happened on the s... more info

DrownedInSound — These songs are concerned with the other moments that make up a life: observing and expressing the mundanity of everyday experience. Wagner knows it: "I just realised something," he drawls, between two ten minute songs, "this song sounds... just like... more info

Nialler9 — Highlights: Rubberbandits, Little Xs for Eyes,  Daughter and Ben Howard, Florence + Machine with The Horrors, Ninja Tune night with Luke Vibert & DJ Food,   Annie Mac, Red Bull Music Academy with Just Blaze, Tanya Morgan, Lambchop, Mossy Nolan. Th... more info

Guardian Music — Totes Amazeballs was created for a festival after a tweet by the Charlatans' frontman and won't be available in shopsKellogg's has created a new breakfast cereal after reading a tweet by Tim Burgess. The Charlatans' frontman inadvertently inspired To... more info

Guardian Music — (City Slang)Kurt Wagner has addressed loss, death and the indignity of ageing before, but never with quite such weary, stoic melancholy as he emanates here. Even when he lapses into cliche – "We were born to lose", "Who of us now knows where the ti... more info

DrownedInSound — Some good musicianship and some heartful songs don’t make this an easy journey. Mr. M is an honest but tough old ride. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Stereogum — Nashville veterans Lambchop now have a video for their beautifully sprawling seven-minute country-soul ramble “Gone Tomorrow,” and it’s a good one. In director Zack Spiger‘s clip, Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner drives a massively bearded buddy... more info