Guardian Music — Format, Pet Shop Boys' new B-sides collection, shows how clever artists can make pop gold from a single's flipsideThe one-word titles of Pet Shop Boys albums always repay a second look and so it proves with Format, the name of their second volume of ... more info

Guardian Music — Graham Coxon invites you to nominate local support acts on his tour of upcoming album A+E (13-30 Apr, starts at O2 Academy Oxford, grahamcoxon.co.uk) …New Order get motoring, minus Peter Hook, for their first UK tour in six years (26 Apr-5 May, sta... more info

Gigwise — Reunited band add second home-coming show... more info

ContactMusic — New Order may record a new album The pioneering indie-dance band have reformed without bass player Peter Hook for a series of live shows across the world and singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner hopes they eventually get to record new material... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Beady Eye, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and The Vaccines are among the artists nominated for XFM's New Music Award.The award, which is given to the best album released by a British artist in the previous year, will be given out on February 8 at... more info

Bradley's Almanac — Roughly 12 hours ago I was up in the River Gods DJ booth for the first New Music Night of twenty-twelve, once again splitting the 4-hour shift with fellow Boston-based music blogger extraordinaire Jay Clicky Clicky. While I've been doing the RGs DJ t... more info

Pop Justice — If you ever want to make yourself APOPLEPTIC WITH RAGE, have a look at what other countries get up to in the run-up to Eurovision, how many great people want to represent their country when they know their country will take their efforts seriously, a... more info

411 Mania — It's in the hands of his lawyers... more info

ContactMusic — Peter Hook is consulting his attorneys after threatening legal action against his former New Order bandmates for using the groups name The bassist was furious after frontman Bernard Sumner drummer Stephen Morris and keyboard player Gillian Gilbert re... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Many fans of Joy Division were aghast yesterday over Disney’s new Mickey Mouse t-shirt that (lovingly or cluelessly) riffed on the Manchester post-punk band’s iconic album art for 1979's “Unknown Pleasures.” But the design’s unlikely pairin... more info