Altsounds — Liverpool Sound City has just announced its full day-by-day programming as the city-based festival takes over the UK's music capital this May for a music, arts and cultural showcase like no other. Another batch of names have just been announce... more info

Press Play — I heard Yuck's single, Get Away, just last week and I quickly took a liking to it.  The lyrics are a little unintelligible, but something about the melancholic guitar just draws me in.  Great song. YouTube more info

Guardian Music — (Fatcat)Typical: you wait years for a British four-piece in thrall to early-90s US alt-rock, and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of Yuck come Mazes, a London band who manage to sound like Pavement or Guided By Voices even in their song ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Eyes up technology lovers. The Next Web is making great use of their SoundCloud Premium account for their daily 5-minutes or less... tech news recap. It's a really great way to stay on top of what's happening in the fascinating world of technology ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dominick Mastrangelo James Blake @ Stubb's As mentioned, after he made his U.S. debut at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, James Blake played his first SXSW show at Stubb's on the Austin fest's first night with Yuck... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Panda Bear - Tomboy: full album stream Four years after the awesome Person Pitch, Animal Collective's Noah Lennox unleashes more psychedelic sounds Panda Bear - Tomboy by In House Press Tomboy is the fourth album from Panda Bear, aka Animal Col... more info

Guardian Music — Guardian music writer Paul Lester is on the verge of writing his 1000th New Band profile for the music site. That's a lot of new bands to write about. He joins Alexis Petridis and Tim Jonze to run through the highs and lows of a weekly series that's ... more info

Abeano — To build up to the dates they’ll be playing together later this month Oupa, Porcelain Raft (pictured) and A Grave With No Name have been busy making a film. Recorded live at Daniel (Oupa’s) house it will feature live performances from all th... more info

Impose Magazine — What a week. Big week in pop for Wiz Khalifa with the release of Rolling Papers, Radiohead’s release of King of Limbs, Mountain Goat’s All Eternals Deck, and New Kids on the Block and the Back Street Boys have joined forces and shall now forever ... more info

Stereogum — The UK’s best ’90s indie rock band also to have been born in the ’90s have released a b-side to the “Get Away” single. The “Get Away” single is a very good one, as is the band’s reverently styled, well written debut LP Yuck. Grab a Ha... more info