Guardian Music — Brixton Academy, London"Where the fuck did you lot come from?" inquires Richard Hawley, glaring out at the crowd. This is South Yorkshire parlance for: "Hello, my fanbase – one pleasantly swollen since the release of my latest album, Standing at th... more info

melophobe — Some will find this overlong and excessively layered—all those strings, horns, choirs, drums, and feedback squalls. Me, I enjoyed peeling back Spiritualized’s onion skins of space rock and black gospel, bound together by Jason Pierce’s weary vo... more info

Kings of A&R — Buzz Track: Sinking In California rockers Great White Buffalo are creating a big buzz with the release of their full length ‘All At Once’ which was co-produced by Grammy Winner Phil Allen (Adele 21). After spending time with the tracks you will ... more info

Guardian Music — In PG Wodehouse's day they knew how to react when someone played a hackneyed, over-sentimental dirge – they hurled rotten fruitI wonder if we are the new Greece. Not economically, obviously – that's possibly for later – but in a football sense.... more info

Guardian Music — Last month, Laura Barton wrote about her favourite and much-missed record store. When Alan's reopened, they asked her along to man the tillMesnes Street in Wigan runs from the heart of town down towards the park. It begins busily, with bakeries and c... more info

Kings of A&R — Buzz Track: Strangers Kings favorite Vikunja, a young Swedish rock/pop band signed to BMG Chrysalis in Sweden are generating some good buzz and attention. They just completed recordings with producer Mats Valentin (Kelly Clarkson, Carpark North) and ... more info

DrownedInSound — The makers of one of DiS' favourite albums of 2011, re-invent a classic... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — A Vancounver-based blogger writes about 'a life in love with music'Who are you and what's your blog called?I'm Mikala Taylor and my site's called BackstageRider.Where are you based?Vancouver, Canada but I have a lot of readers in the US and the UK.De... more info

NME - Radar — By The Sea are getting a fair bit of heat at the moment, and rightly so. The Wirral band have a handful of tracks online, and as I alluded to in the magazine this week, they make me think of Mick Head if he was fronting Voyager 1 era Verve. Possibly.... more info

Guardian Music — The readers' panel takes on Spiritualized's best-loved albumFollowing an exhaustive and entirely non-scientific poll via Twitter and on our Facebook page, this week's readers' panel will be on just one album – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating I... more info