Guardian Music — Brit nominee Feist teams up with fellow folk popper M Ward (25 Mar, Royal Albert Hall, SW7; 26 Mar, 02 Apollo, Manchester) ...With a forthcoming 12-inch of remixes, including one by Andy Weatherall, who knows what the sludgy drone rock of Wooden Shji... more info

Guardian Music — Readers leave tributes on the seventh anniversary of the DJ's deathThis is the newsJohn Fogerty considers Creedence Clearwater Revival revivalJustin Bieber hires Kanye West and Drake for next albumMike Skinner on his new, post-Streets projectMorrisse... more info

XLR8R — Veteran electronic duo Orbital unexpectedly offered up a new song yesterday, reportedly in preparation for a new album that's on the way in 2012, the pair's first since 2004. "Never" starts out in serene fashion, rolling out some plinky key... more info

Stereogum — The pioneering British dance duo Orbital hasn’t released an LP since 2004′s Blue Album, but they’re planning on returning next year with an as-yet-untitled album. To that end, they’ve just given the world a new track, a twinkly synth workout ... more info

Guardian Music — It's the brothers Hartnoll, just as you like them, going around and around and around in circlesHaving re-formed in 2009 after half a decade of solo experiments, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, aka techno pioneers Orbital, are set to release their a... more info

NME — Electro veterans also give away a brand new track as a free download more info

Guardian Music — The band T-shirt is a phenomenon that not only gives teenagers a sense of belonging, as Jude Rogers discovered – it's also about adults holding on to the passions of youthMy first was REM. It was white, loose, and had a chequerboard on the front. I... more info

Swedesplease — More electronica, this time of the space age variety; trippy and interstellar. What begins with a muted Miles Davis solo quickly becomes a diaspora of synthy beats, weird samples, and otherworldly chants. Here’s “The Icarus Vessel” from the alb... more info

Nialler9 — It was coming all year. A 2 hour Essential mix from Jamie xx that starts with Orbital’s ‘Belfast’ and continues with Gil Scott Heron interludes, tracks from James Blake soundalike Ifan Dafydd, Koreless, Floating Points, Fantastic Mr. Fox, New ... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Photo by Mischa Richter Jamie xx hopped on the decks to spin a two-hour BBC Essential Mix last night. There's plenty of choice cuts-- stick around until the very end, though, when he drops his own remix of Radiohead's The King of Limbs cut "Bloom", w... more info