Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring (Album of the month)Hot Chip - One Life StandThe Soft Pack - The Soft PackChew Lips - UnicornYeasayer - Odd BloodLightspeed Champion - Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet YouField Music - MeasureMarina and The Diamonds - T... more info

DrownedInSound — London's South Bank Centre have announced that Richard Thompson will be the Artistic Director for 2010's Meltdown Festival, following in the pretty substantial footsteps of Ornette Coleman, Massive Attack, Lee Perry, Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave, amon... more info

Guardian Music — The folk-rock veteran and musical maverick will act as artistic director for this year's Meltdown festivalFolk guitarist Richard Thompson is to curate this year's Meltdown festival. Following in the footsteps of David Bowie, Patti Smith and Massive A... more info

The Music Fix — News Flash: Massive Attack and The XX start countdown.European festivals rock. From the press release: The first major confirmations for the 13th Melt! Festival at the wonderful and unique Ferropolis festival site in Gräfenhainichen, set aga... more info

Guardian Music — Is there anything of Jazzie B and Soul II Soul in today's black British pop stars, asks Paul Morley Read this tremendous interview with Jazzie B OBE as historian/scholar/enthusiast/cultural commentator/collector/motivator/fashion analyst/expert/elder... more info

Addict Music — The first announcements for the 13th edition of Melt Festival have been made today, with Massive Attack The XX being confirmed for the German bash. more info

Guardian Music — Animal Collective's forthcoming installation at the Guggenheim comes from a proud tradition of pop mash-ups with the art worldIt's better than copying Jackson Pollock and more ambitious than pretending to be full-time robots. The only surprising thin... more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Music – Hollywood 1. Sade – Soldier of Love 2. Massive Attack – Heligoland 3. Hot Chip – One Life Stand 4. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM 5. Soft Pack – Soft Pack 6. Vampire Weekend – Contra 7. Yeasayer – Odd Blood 8. XX – XX 9. ... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - The 2010 Sasquatch! Music Festival has announced their line up for this year's event and it will feature the recently reunited Pavement, Massive Attack, My Morning Jacket, Ween, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Kid Cudi, LCD Soundsystem, The Natio... more info

Silent Uproar — Massive Attack will follow up Heligoland with a EP of "leftovers" sometime in May. Robert '3D' Del Naja told BBC the EP will hopefully include "Red Light," another track with Guy Garvey of Elbow, and possibly some new material. [bbc.co.uk] more info