Consequence of Sound — They'll be joined byexciting, female-fronted upstarts Illuminati Hotties and Adult Mom. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tiny Engines bands Illuminati Hotties and Adult Mom will support. Continue reading… more info

Sweeping The Nation — 10 Jane Weaver - Modern KosmologyWeaver's ninth album is the one on which she hits full stride, a kind of retro-futurist analogue motorik that's as happy to drift as charge, hypnotic and uncomfortable in equal measure to sound like it's n... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Looks like we made it to the end. We close with ten years ago, another of those years right at the end of this survey in which it's driven more by what STN was writing about at the time then what else was happening as the alternative rapidly segr... more info

Sweeping The Nation — So now we've covered the best tracks of the year so far on a month by month basis, let's move on to the longform stuff. Feel free to remind us of these come the end of the year when something else from these six months overtakes the lot. Algi... more info

Sweeping The Nation — The second year of STN's existence, so most of this is an unashamed Greatest Hits of that year Los Campesinos!' demos changed everything and we generally got our raison d'etre into gear, as it were. Out in the wider world iPods became big... more info

Sweeping The Nation — As promised when we did 1970 on Good Friday, the other end of our forty-year spectrum and a list notably more biased than most, even if its span is only the last five years, towards what STN was writing about at the time anyway. The Big Pink were the... more info

Sweeping The Nation — For latecomers, this is the eleventh in our sequence of forty tracks to represent (as through our eyes at least) each of the pop years 1970 to 2009. So far we've covered 1972, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002 and 2005. And now... 2... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — I still remember discovering a curiously named song titled “You! Me! Dancing!” ten years ago by a band by the name of Los Campesinos!. It immediately caught my attention and had me hooked, following their every move. The Welsh band had this crazy... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The kind of indie rock that Los Campesinos! make is long out of fashion -- not that "fashionable" was ever a word you'd use to describe LC! anyway -- but they're true believers are so are their fans. This year's Sick Scenes is a fantas... more info