8/1 — 50 Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy49 Jay-Z – The Blueprint 348 Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It47 Alasdair Roberts – Spoils46 Broadcast & The Focus Group - …Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age45 Richmond Fontaine ... more info

Guardian Music — Rather than treating them like national treasures, let's hope musicians stretch their prejudices about what older artists can doIn the week that NME announced its 50 records of this past decade, I heard one of the next decade's best. I admit this so... more info

Guardian Music — We're well up for being bludgeoned by an awesome sonic power, but these noiseniks just sound like tepid punk and kiddie gothHometown: Stockton-on-Tees.The lineup: Kingsley Chapman (vocals, guitar), Paul Chapman (guitar), Pop Chapman (bass), Phil Chap... more info

Here Comes The Flood — It looks like that there will be a screening of the Beautiful Mistake documentary prior to the John Cale show in Cardiff, November 21. Cale plays piano and organ throughout the film. He performs Ready For Drowning with James Dean Bradfield from th... more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Pixies, Chickenfoot • Taylor Swift Announces New Fearless Dates • Clip of Nirvana at ‘92 Reading Hits the Web • Brock Talks New Modest Mouse Video • Manic Street Preachers Return to NYC • Brian Wilson to Complete Gershwin... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Alexis Maindrault Near the end of their first New York show in 10 years, at Webster Hall on October 7th, singer-guitarist James Dean Bradfield of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers hit the plaintive opening lick of... more info

Rolling Stone — Near the end of their first New York show in 10 years, at Webster Hall on October 7th, singer-guitarist James Dean Bradfield of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers hit the plaintive opening lick of the Small Faces’ 1966 British hit “All or... more info

Quick Before It Melts — Few artists in modern times have been able to coalesce art, politics and music in quite the same way the Manic Street Preachers have.  Watching their progress from punk-glam wasters to proletariat championing sonic crusaders, you can’t help but ... more info

411 Mania — Manic Street Preachers, Megadeth and Ministry, with yet more discussion on the subject of true metal and other impertinent thoughts. more info

Undercover, Australia — The first studio album from Dame Shirley Bassey in over 20 years will feature Pet Shop Boys, Manic Street Preachers, Rufus Wainwright, Richard Hawley and K.T. Tunstall. more info