Brooklyn Vegan — The annual two-day FYF Fest is returning to LA from August 23-24 this year, and the lineup was just announced. It includes The Strokes, Phoenix, the reunited Blood Brothers who haven't played sine 2007 (!), Slowdive, Slint, Flying Lotus,... more info

Stereogum — Los Angeles’ FYF Fest 2014 just announced their 2014 lineup and it is a goddamn doozy, with the Strokes, Phoenix, Interpol, and Haim at the top, and a zillion other excellent bands below them. Check it out: The Strokes Phoenix Interpol Haim The Blo... more info

Chorus.fm — *The Blood Brothers (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thebloodbrothers)*' ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn was released 10 years ago today. Share your memories of the album in the replies. more info

Guardian Music — Posh Spice harboured ambitions to star in West End musicals, according to Viva Forever producer Judy CraymerVictoria Beckham once harboured ambitions of becoming a musical theatre actor, according to the producer of the new Spice Girls musical Viva F... more info

Impose Magazine — On Sunday, November 4, Divine Fits (featuring Spoon's Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and New Bomb Turks' Sam Brown) and Cold Cave (with a fairly new lineup consisting of Cody Votolato of the Blood Brothers & Jaguar Love, bassist Hu... more info

Chorus.fm — PropertyOfZack (http://www.propertyofzack.com) has a lot of great features up today. First, they have a new "Bands On Bands" installment with Garrett Nickelsen (*The Maine (http://www.absolutepunk.net/themaine)*) discussing... more info

ContactMusic — Long-running West End musical Blood Brothers is to close in London after 24 years The curtain will fall on the beloved Phoenix Theatre show on 27 October 12 prior to a national tour The Olivier-winning musical written by Willy Russell follows th... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — I love me some Ingrid Michaelson, and I love me some transformative make-up, so I'm loving Ingrid's new video for her song 'Blood Brothers' from her album Human Again in which she gets her make-up done as seven pop-culture icons right in a row. How ... more info

Guardian Music — U2's Bono and the Edge created Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, but staged it in the US. Why doesn't this nation of musicians and playwrights stage more shows?I've sat through some jaw-dropping performances in Dublin recently – and some truly dreadfu... more info

Guardian Music — Singer, 37Holiday romances aren't doomed to fail. I met my boyfriend 10 years ago in Barbados on holiday, and although I don't think my friends thought much would come of it, it's the strongest relationship I've ever been in.The problem I'm having ri... more info