Popdose — In a recent thought piece on The A.V. Club, Josh Modell ruminated on the dilemma of bands touring endlessly around the hits that made them famous, even as they continue to record new material (or not). He rightfully noted everyone from The Pixies to ... more info

Guardian Music — From racing with the devil to a goddess on a highway, this week's playlist leaves others eating dirt. Scream if you want to go faster …And they're off! Last week I asked you for suggestions of songs about velocity – and the nominations came thick... more info

Here Comes The Flood — London band The Fierce And The Dead goes for a tougher sound on their new EP On VHS. With four tracks that can be labeled as instrumental prog metal, Stevens, Feazy and Marshall grit their teeth to follow each others improvised chord progressions a... more info

Guardian Music — Late-80s home of the Cocteau Twins and Pixies has "a certain class", and a host of new artists faithful to its aestheticWhat is it about a record label that makes it the sort of place you want to spend time in? When it first emerged in the 1980s, 4AD... more info

Totally Fuzzy — "These things happen / We were children in the mid-'90s," Johnny Lloyd coos on the second track of Tribes' forthcoming full-length debut. The London rockers unabashedly borrow from the skewed harmonies and loud-soft-loud dynamics of Pixies, ... more info

Guardian Music — These mystery Mancunians could be a Peter Hook side project for all we know. Fingers crossed they're not …Hometown: Manchester.The lineup: This information is not available.The background: No Ceremony///? Sounds like a New Order tribute band, doesn... more info

Impose Magazine — Some songs are meant to make you blush. The Pixies' "Gigantic" for example; once you learn the "inspired by the film Crimes Of The Heart, in which a married woman falls in love with a black teenager, backstory" it becomes impossible to regain tho... more info

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 — Barfly, LondonThere's the gnarly glam number about a mother turning to lesbianism, named after the ancient Greek poet, Sappho. There are the odes to chasing teenage kicks through a Godless universe. There are the hints of family lost to insanity, fr... more info

411 Mania — Do you remember any of the videos by the Pixies? In this edition of The Savage Animal, Mikey MiGo takes a look at the music videos of the Pixies. All of this, a Golden Globes ramble, a Rockstar Wrestling update, a review of the worst movie in years, ... more info