BBC News - UK — Rock band Maximo Park will be the first band to officially open this year's Glastonbury festival in June. more info

XFM.co.uk — The band will launch a brand new stage at the festival... more info

Monsters and Critics — Maximo Park will launch this year's Glastonbury festival. more info

Gigwise — On a new stage at the festival... more info

411 Mania — Post-punk outfit Maximo Park return with an album that sticks to their trademark formula, but ultimately falls flat. more info

NME — Paul Smith and co will be first band to play new William Green area more info

PopSugar UK — Lily Allen took to the stage at the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Swindon alongside a dressed down Fearne Cotton and a glammed up Alesha Dixon: find out how to copy Alesha's style with FabUK. Lily was banned from using naughty words in "Not Fair", and giggl... more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — The Rural Alberta Advantage show at Mercury Lounge is also the I Was a King show at Mercury Lounge. Tickets are on sale (@ noon). Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the TV On the Radio show in Prospect... more info

Live Daily — British indie-rockers Maximo Park will return to North America this fall for a 14-date tour behind their forthcoming third album, "Quicken the Heart." The trek begins Sept. 6 with a gig at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, followed by a one-off Canadia... more info