Stereogum — The Cure's Robert Smith is curating this year's Meltdown festival in London, and its initial lineup is extremely solid. Among the headliners are My Bloody Valentine (who allegedly will have a new album out this year) and Nine Inch Nails (who supposed... more info

Consequence of Sound — Deftones, Placebo, Manic Street Preachers, The Libertines, and Mogwai are also set to perform at the 10-day festival. more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — AbdomenFrom: Leeuwarden, NetherlandsDutch trio Abdomen are well named because their confrontational garage rock hits you in the guts like a kick by a barbarous bully in steel capped Dr Martins. Lies, the first single from the trio's upcoming alb... more info

Nialler9 — The National Concert Hall will host a Shane MacGowan 60th Birthday Celebration on January 15th next year and a lot of famous people will be in attendance to participate including Shane MacGowan himself and: Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie of Primal ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2003 was in some ways the year everything we knew about pop splintered - Phil Spector's arrest, Michael Jackson's post-Martin Bashir arrest, Britney being kissed by and then duetting with Madonna with the precipice starting to hove into view.... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Velvet HandsFrom: Cornwall, EnglandThe Velvet Hands are redefining the word prolific. Hard on the heels of the explosive Sick of Living (featured on the blog in May New Music To Delight Your Ears - The Velvet Hands ) comes the rowdy, fiery Game... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Velvet HandsFrom: St Austell, Cornwall, EnglandSick of Living the new single from boisterous Cornish quartet The Velvet Hands (featured on the blog a couple of times last year, Fresh Sounds 8th May 2016 , Going Underground #53 - Cornwall) comb... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2004 was a year when things were upturned. Britney got married twice, the first cracks in that impregnable facade, though this was also the year of Toxic so nobody pried too deeply yet. That clearly wasn't something going to be afforded to Pete D... more info

Consequence of Sound — Libertines co-frontman's new solo album isn't offensively bad -- it's offensively boring. more info

Stereogum — The shambling Brit-rock hedonist and occasional Libertines co-leader Pete Doherty, who now goes by Peter, will release his solo album Hamburg Demonstrations next month, and we’ve already posted the impressive first single “I Don’t Love Anyone (... more info