Consequence of Sound — Plus, a Q&A with lead singer Sarah Cracknell. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — via @edroste Tickets for the James Blake show at MHOW go on AmEx presale today at noon. Tickets for the Divine Fits and Cold Cave show at Webster Hall go on AmEx presale today at noon. Tickets for the recently... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Saint Etienne's Words and Music is my current contender for Favorite Album of 2012, a joyous, danceable love letter to pop music that is easily the band's best outing since 1997's In Good Humor. The record is... more info

Guardian Music — This French singer-songwriter is in thrall to the Beatles, sunshine pop and French melodyHometown: Paris.The lineup: Melody Prochet (vocals, instruments).The background: One of the albums being talked up as an autumn highlight is the forthcoming one ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis New Zealand dance rocker Ladyhawke (aka Pip Brown) released her second album, Anxiety, back in May on the newly-rejuvinated Casablanca Records, a label that seems to have cornered the market on indie dancepop (Crystal Castles, Saint Et... more info

Guardian Music — When the pop group Saint Etienne made a film in 2005 about London's Lower Lea Valley, they knew the Olympic bid would change its desolate air for ever. But they never imagined quite how muchOn a wet day in March 2005, I took a walk up the Lower Lea V... more info

Prefix — Last year the UK publication Q Magazine put out an entire issue dedicated to the 20th anniversary of ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/listen-saint-etienne-covers-amy-winehouses-just-fr/67124/ more info

Consequence of Sound — Taken from Q Magazine's new Winehouse tribute album. more info

Guardian Music — Sophisticated electronic popsters Saint Etienne headline along with Villagers and Cherry Ghost at the boutique Deer Shed Festival (20-22 Jul, Baldersby Park, Topcliffe, nr Ripon, Yorkshire) ...Acid-fried American indie experimenters Animal Collectiv... more info

Guardian Music — Kindness House (Female Energy/Polydor) Literal song names may be the future. Imagine the time that could be saved if every title also contained a full description. Cheryl Cole's Call My Name, for example, would have gone by Calvin Said This Worked Be... more info