Brooklyn Vegan — PJ Harvey has confirmed two U.S. headline shows in addition to her appearance at the already sold out Coachella festival. The headline dates-April 14 at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco and April 20 at Terminal 5 in New York-fall... more info

Guardian Music — (Matador)The South Downs are made to sound very bleak on this Brighton trio's debut, a wilderness of darkening lakes, swirling mud and other ill portents. But if the usual goth tropes are present and correct, Esben and the Witch twist them into unusu... more info

Guardian Music — Hoxton Hall, LondonFeted by everyone from the godfather of ambient rock, Brian Eno, to fashionistas at Vogue, Anna Calvi's "sound pictures" and highly personal style have marked her out as one of the year's brightest hopes. Celebrating the release of... more info

ContactMusic — PJ Harvey aims to be a "war songwriter". The 'Let England Shake' singer's latest album deals with many different aspects of war through its lyrics, which required a great deal of research into historical conflicts, as well as listening to songs which... more info

Guardian Music — From the Kinks' Lola to David Bowie's Major Tom, here are your songs about characters who are not quite as they first seemI thought you might struggle to come up with songs about mistaken identity. Not so. It wasn't as tough as I thought. In fact, th... more info

411 Mania — Harvey gets political... more info

NME — Singer opens up about the lyrics of her new album more info

Radio Exile — Thom Yorke. PJ Harvey. Eddie Vedder. Chris Cornell. These are pretty big names rooted in the mid-late 90s rock scene, each with their own special talents to offer the world. Naturally, I have opinions about pretty much everything, but on many issues,... more info

The Yellow Stereo — It wasn’t till a couple of weeks ago that I realized that PJ Harvey had been working on a new record, let alone that it was set to be released next month.  I guess it’s one of those instances where the best surprises come when you least expect i... more info

NME — My Chemical Romance, Daft Punk, Florence also make the list more info