Sweeping The Nation — The start of a very occasional series takes as its key point the obvious and undeniable fact that the list of NME covers on Wikipedia is the very best page on the internet. But why stop there? Why can't we chart the whole of pop culture by rise a... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Holy OrdersFrom: Hull, United KingdomHull quartet The Holy Orders are here to rescue rock from the fakes, the phonies and the frauds. Deviants sounds like a lecture in how to write a pop song from And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. Retina... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — TraamsFrom: Chichester, United KingdomJack from art rock trio Traams sounds like XTC smashing into The Young Knives in the Large Hadron Collider. Go TryGo VisitTraams - Facebook more info

Totally Fuzzy — Dutch Uncles are an indie rock band from Marple, England. They are known for their use of atypical time signatures within a pop context. Their influences includes several bands such as The Smiths, King Crimson, Steve Reich, XTC and Talking Heads. R... more info

Popdose — Let's take a look back at the 10 finest moments from XTC's catalog as written by Colin Moulding more info

Guardian Music — Village Underground, LondonIn the week that they finally cracked the top 40 with Cough Cough, a taster for their second album, there are things about Manchester's mathtronic masters Everything Everything that they might wish were left unsaid. Such as... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Parlour Flames is the new band from Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthur’s and Manc singer song-writer/poet Vinny Peculiar, and after what started out as an EP the duo decided to take it all the way by putting an album together which is due out... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Fatima Al Qadiri at MoMA PS1 in 2011 (more by Erez Avissar) Fatima Al Qadiri (who sometimes goes by Ayshay), Nguzunguzu, Total Freedom, Venus XTC, $hayne, and J-Cush are DJing a pre-Halloween show in NYC on October 27 at Club... more info

Guardian Music — A band formed out of Team Waterpolo and Slow Motion Shoes might not exactly scream supergroup, but their music sets a mood that is Lynchian and noirReading this on mobile? Click here to listenHometown: Seattle, WashingtonThe lineup: Ryan Standlee (vo... more info

Discobelle.net — Berlin-based producer, DJ and label head Alex Ridha recently premiered the first single from his upcoming third Boys Noize album, Out Of The Black. “XTC” is a crisp analog banger built around reverb-drenched percussion, bouncy synth-work and a de... more info