Guardian Music — Hercules And Love Affair, Mayer Hawthorne and the Phenomenal Handclap Band play Croatia's two-weekend Garden Festival (2-4 Jul & 9-11 Jul, Petrcane, thegardenfestival.eu) …Later in the year at the same venue, Electric Elephant (27-29 Aug, Petrcane,... more info

Guardian Music — (PeMa)The eighth "proper" album from Teenage Fanclub delivers exactly what one expects: gentle, bittersweet guitar pop, which harks back to the 60s without descending into pastiche. Pick of the bunch this time out is The Fall, a meditation on ageing ... more info

NME — Scottish indie heroes complete line-up of festival's 10th anniversary bash more info

Totally Fuzzy — Vinnie Rattolle said... John Barry - King Kong Soundtrack http://vinnierattolle.blogspot.com Simon666 said... MONGO SANTAMARIA - "Mongo Magic" (1983). Never on CD, never before in the blogosphere - here's a new vinyl rip of this funkjazzlatino reco... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 05-27 Manchester, England - Academy 2 *05-28 Sheffield, England - Leadmill *05-30 Dublin, Ireland - Academy06-01 Aberdeen, Scotland - The Warehouse *06-02 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC06-03 Edinburgh, Scotland - The Picture House06-04 Leeds, England The... more info

Guardian Music — (Columbia)After two albums on independent labels, South Carolina's Band of Horses' major label switch accompanies a similar musical shift towards reaching a wider audience. However, a much bigger, more spacious sound has been achieved without sacrifi... more info

Addict Music — One of our favourite new bands, Yuck, have just scored three shows with indie pop legends Teenage Fanclub. more info

The Music Fix — sounds like a great gig more info

The Vinyl Villain — So, I'm off sunning myself many thousands of miles away. I was tempted to repeat the 2009 exercise of looking for a whole series of ghost postings, but instead will use the two weeks to look back at a couple of compilation LPs that sit in the cupboa... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sakalli said... National Head Band - Albert 1 (1971) (@256) Embryo - Jazzbuhne Berlin (Live 1989) (@256) http://www.sakalli.info Gumshoe said... Gawrsh! A new Top-10, Album of the Week #18 and ... An MP3 each from Leopard Leg and T.I.T.S. ... steamy... more info