Guardian Music — Building made famous by 1969 fab four album and its celebrated cover still draws fans from around the worldFrom the outside it still looks like what it once was: a Georgian town house in the suburbs of north London with a famous pedestrian crossing o... more info

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Altsounds — Nico Vega (http://www.myspace.com/nicovega) has spent a better part of the last two years hitting the road with Manic Street Preachers, Semi Precious Weapons and the Von Bondies but come this winter the band are set to team up with and support *The S... more info

Gigwise — At King Tut's Wah Wah Hut... more info

XFM.co.uk — The Scottish venue's 20th Birthday sees intimate gigs by Manic Street Preachers and more... more info

Guardian Music — Like Led Zeppelin and the Manics before them, MGMT are releasing their new album without the aid of any singles. But will this make fans judge their music differently?"We'd rather people hear the whole album as an album and see what tracks jump out r... more info

8/1 — 50 Sonic Youth - The Eternal49 Karen O and The Kids - Where the Wild things are48 Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane47 Florance and the Machine - Lungs46 Ebony Bones - Bones of My Bones45 Prodigy - Invaders Must Die44 Bibio - Ambivalence Av... more info

Addict Music — ArtVinyl today announced the winner of Best Art Vinyl 2009 with the Muse album - 'The Resistance' taking first place, Manic Street Preachers' 'Journal For Plague Lovers' coming second and Fever Ray's self titled album coming third. more info

NME — Manic Street Preachers, Massive Attack also fare well more info

8/1 — 1 - Brett Anderson – Wilderness2 - Patrick Wolf – Bachelor3 - PJ Harvey & John Parish A Woman a Man Walked By4 - Bat For Lashes - Two Suns5 - Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light6 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers7 - Richard Hawley - Tr... more info