NME - Radar — “For me, it’s simple,” says Charlie Boyer, setting his pint down thoughtfully on the table of a gloomy Camden drinking hole. “I just wanna make primitive, sexy, glamorous rock’n’roll music.” This is the manifesto he dished out to The Vo... more info

Guardian Music — This London five-piece have produced a debut single so promising you worry whether they'll ever quite match itReading on a mobile? Listen hereHometown: London. The lineup: Charlie Boyer (vocals, guitar), Danny Stead (bass), Sam Davies (guitar), Samir... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — As one of the quintessential NYC punk bands, it’s a bit hard to picture Television on the Sunset Strip. One can imagine Tom Verlaine squinting vampire-like in the sunlight, scowling at the bronze-skinned Angelenos, dreaming of a dark bar on the Bow... more info

Here Comes The Flood — I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! Tom Verlaine more info

Guardian Music — (Columbia)Patti Smith has returned to the poetic-punk format of 1975's Horses, which the Polar prize committee recently described as "Rimbaud with amps". Four of Horses' personnel – Smith, guitarist Lenny Kaye, drummer Jay Dee Daugherty and Televis... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Steven Sebring The new Patti Smith album Banga drops June 5 on Columbia Records. It's her first album with original material in eight years. The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City and produced by Patti Smith and her... more info

Guardian Music — Singer's first collection of original material in eight years will feature a track dedicated to the late Amy WinehousePatti Smith has announced her first album of original material in eight years. Banga, featuring Smith's own children and Television'... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Alberteen is a well educated band. Lead singer Phil Shaw is a Professor of English Literature at University of Leicester and bass player Ade Berry is a playwright and director. With John Rose on guitar they perform dark post-rock songs with a cinem... more info

Guardian Music — Academy, ManchesterThe Jayhawks have never had great timing. They honed their country-rock sound just as grunge went global. They released their second album, 1992's Blue Earth, on a major label just as the US media attacked the huge sums of money s... more info

Guardian Music — Soul man Geno Washington promises to get the party started, while Suggs plans a classical 'Baggy Trousers'Anna Calvi, singer-songwriter (performing 16 June)What do the Kinks mean to you?I remember my dad putting on "Waterloo Sunset" and being struck ... more info