Guardian Music — Suddenly, many YouTube videos are looking remarkably similar. Why? It's the way the artists originally intended them to be seen, apparently ...Suddenly, many of the videos on YouTube look the same. You may have thought that this was just coincidence.... more info

Said the Gramophone — The Daredevil Christopher Wright - "Clouds". Said the Gramophone tries hard not to be one of those music-blogs that recommends ten "awesome!!!!!!!" bands each week. Oh sure, we might post about ten different bands - but what we are posting is wonde... more info

The World Forgot — In this day and age when some artists have all but disappeared {Sufjan Stevens}, others continue to put out new albums that are, well, below par {Weezer, The Killers}, and yet others are on possible permanent hiatus {The Strokes}, it can be hard at t... more info

NME — The Green Man festival has announced the first batch of artists set to play the 2009 event. more info

DrownedInSound — The emphatically DiS-approved Green Man Festival has today announced its first raft of acts, and mighty fine they look too. We spoke to Managing Director of the festival Fiona Stewart, who has also kindly offered us two pairs of tickets which could b... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Ok I’m going to just go ahead and throw out the f words now – the nice, quick, obvious comparison which will either reel you in slobbering or have you reeling (and yes, quite possibly flobbing) – Fleet Foxes. If you mentioned the name to The... more info

Guardian Music — On this week's podcast we have the emperor of alt-folk, Bonnie Prince Billy. In advance of his latest album, Beware, he talks to Rosie Swash about his music, his life and, well, his antipathy towards Bon Iver. Is some beardy-folk battle about to kick... more info

Chorus.fm — *Bon Iver* (http://www.myspace.com/boniver)'s Blood Bank is on sale for 99 cents at Amazon MP3 (http://tinyurl.com/ctfc4k) today. more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy!Bruce Springsteen is set to headline Glastonbury, which takes place June 26-28.Dinosaur Jr join Bon Iver and Okkervil River as the newest addition to Indiana-based label Jagjaguwar. Their next album is set to be releas... more info

NME — The first wave of acts playing this year's Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester have been announced. more info