NME — Drenge, Blood Red Shoes, Los Campesinos! and Fuck Buttons also join the initial line-up more info

Sweeping The Nation — Albums there are dates for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wigout At Jagbags (6th January)Broken Bells – After The Disco (13th January)East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (13th January)I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro (20th January)Mogwai - Rave Ta... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — A host of bands including Beady Eye, Muse and Foals have donated special items to the Help 13 auction to raise money to help the survivors of the typhoon in the Philippines.Among the list of items up for sale over the coming weeks include signed item... more info

ContactMusic — A new exhibition in Leeds sees illustrator Jack Hudson team-up with 3D duo Lord Whitney to produce work inspired by some of most weird and wonderful... more info

Guardian Music — Illuminations is a new event taking place next month which sees retro revivalists Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti rub shoulders with lo-fi grungers Cloud Nothings and others during a week-long zip around venues across the capital (5–10 Nov, begins XO... more info

Guardian Music — The former Sex Pistols lead singer is bringing his band to the Split Festival to the delight of music fans, new guest blogger James Hunt reportsFormer Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Lydon will be on stage this weekend at Sunderland's Split Festival.Lydo... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers Pulled Apart By Horses became the first hometown act to open the V Festival in Leeds on Friday 24Aug12 and marked the occasion by handing out beer to fans The band members had been among the crowd at the festival in previous years makin... more info

ContactMusic — A London music festival for teenagers has been scrapped due to production complications caused by the Olympic Games Soul singer Lianne La Havas and rock bands Pulled Apart By Horses and Foals were among the acts lined up to perform at next months Aug... more info

NME - Festivals — Do you remember the first time? Did you, like Metronomy's Joe Mount, have a friend who tried to exist on ridiculous foodstuffs (in Mount's mate's case - marzipan and orange juice)? Or were you as posh as Pulled Apart By Horses, who spent their first ... more info

DrownedInSound — Blood Red Shoes' Steve Ansell talks in-depth about the place of politics in music, class rivalry, how the music industry is doomed, why You Me At Six fans want him to die of AIDS and getting ripped by Pulled Apart By Horses for stripping naked. ... more info