Guardian Music — Never mind the Buzzcocks … or Stone Roses, or New Order: Manchester can stop trading on its former glories. Three new bands explain how they are reinventing the city's musicThere's an old adage in the trades (the music business, newspapers and ... more info

Dlisted — You know those goth rockabilly kids in junior high school who carried around Nightmare Before Christmas lunchboxes, painted fake tattoo on their bodies with Sharpies, regularly went to the nurse for their "cutting" problem, hung out at Disneyland on ... more info

Radio Exile — The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival announced the 2010 line-up this year and it isn’t too bad. Granted, anything short of a Smiths reunion is underwhelming to the apathetic masses, but overall, this youth-and-indie focused oasis in Indio l... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin Marr, best-known for his work with The Smiths, has been collaborating with the group since the end of The Cribs' tour for their 2007 album, Men's Needs Women's Needs. But this will be the first time... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — The top 40 is a strange British institution. On the one hand, it's widely derided by people who claim that all the songs in it are rubbish and that it no longer means anything because you don't have to sell hundreds of thousands of units to reach the... more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — For more than a decade, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has been cranking out a unique style of lo-fi synthpop that sprouted forth from a childhood fueled by the Smiths, New Order, and the Cure. CFTPA evokes a sound that was cutting-edge 25 years a... more info

XFM.co.uk — A new Facebook group is hoping to send The Smiths' ‘How Soon Is Now?' to the top of the UK singles chart. more info

Rolling Stone — Facebook helped Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” upset The X Factor as the U.K.’s Christmas Number One. Now, another group on the social network has launched asking fans to purchase the Smiths’ hit “How Soon Is Now?” bet... more info

8/1 — MP3: The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes OutTake me out tonightwhere there's music and there's peoplewho are young and alivedriving in your carI never never want to go homebecause I haven't got one anymoreTake me out tonightbecause I want t... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The hot sun is beaming down on the face of the rhythm guitarist playing onstage in Mexico in 1999. On occasions he gazes up to the sun, he is slightly blinded by its glare and he is annoyed that he has left his sunglasses behind in the dressing room ... more info