Impose Magazine — In today's edition of earworm joy, Best Friends' "Happy Anniversary" makes the blues seem like a veritable happy time. Much like Los Campesinos! and Belle and Sebastian, this Sheffield band has the double-minded ability to make us feel sorrow... more info

Impose Magazine — In the tradition of noisepop bands like Los Campesinos! and nameplayers like Salvia Plath, Joanna Gruesome meets the listener somehwere exactly in the middle. Insisting, with due cause, to be taken seriously, the first single from their debut record,... more info

Chorus.fm — *Los Campesinos! (http://www.absolutepunk.net/tags/los-campesinos/)* will release (http://loscampband.tumblr.com/post/48766427816/los-campesinos-a-good-night-for-a-fistfight) a live album called A Good Night for a Fistfight on May 4th. You can pre-or... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Seazoo describe themselves as "a three-piece Post Teddycore explosion happening now", which surely negates any more need for information. More digging reveals they're from Wrexham and only went public about six weeks ago with an EP, Ken, that benefit... more info

NME - Radar — France's Transmusicales festival is a thing of pure beauty. Situated in Rennes, the notorious new music behemoth returned for its 33rd year last month. The gist of it? Well, things don't really kick off until about 3am, and most of the gigs take plac... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian lists the best party hosts in literature. Under the Radar shares Los Campesinos!'s new holiday song, "A Doe to a Deer." 58 year-end music lists were added yesterday to the master aggregation yesterday, including the top album lists... more info

Consequence of Sound — A free holiday gift. more info

ContactMusic — Los Campesinos! rocker Ellen Waddell has announced she's leaving the group following a final show next week (15Dec12).The bass player has appeared on... more info

Consequence of Sound — "Cross My Heart And Hope To Die" more info

Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectTom Baker is a recent graduate currently writing about music for This Is Fake DIY and the 405What was the first song you ever bought?North & South – I... more info