NME.COM - Reviews Blog — NME's Reviews Editor rounds up the best albums released in the UK on July 1. Follow the links for full reviews So, Detroit Social Club have finally got round to releasing that debut album. Mark Beaumont finds it was worth the wait for 'Existence''... more info

The Music Fix — Nine albums in and a lapsed Gary K rediscovers his love for the Fannies more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee (MP3) "Dogged adherents of the "if it ain't broke" philosophy of music, the Glaswegian quartet have been plying their own brand of harmony-laden guitar pop for two decades and little changes here. Pedestrian? Yes.... more info

Scotsman.com — TEENAGE FANCLUB: SHADOWS PEMA, £11.99 more info

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