Guardian Music — The choice of Simpsons creator Matt Groening to curate next year's festival is an inspired one. Let's just hope we don't get Nancy Cartwright singing Do the BartmanWhat's that noise? Oh, it's the sound of Britain's alt-rock fans exploding with deligh... more info

The Quietus — Righteous flames in Germany more info

NME Radio — I reckon the best single moment of any song included in the tracklist from this week's NME Radio New Noise arrives at exactly 2 minutes 36 seconds into No Age's Losing Feeling, when the song drops key and bursts from shimmering metallic monotony into... more info

Tastes Like Caramel — Last week I wrote about Florence and the Machine’s latest single You’ve Got the Love and anticipated the accompanying video. This morning the video was unveiled, in which a showgirl-like Florence is placed atop a glittery crescent moon above a de... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Pixie Lott has beaten Florence and the Machine, La Roux, The Saturdays and Tinchy Stryder to be named the EMAs Best New UK & Ireland Act.  The Mama Do singer now goes up against 21 artists... more info

Music is Art — My full column is coming tomorrow evening, but first I thought I’d do an extra blog this morning. This track has, for me at least, been an awfully long time coming. Dot Allison, who has collaborated with Death in Vegas, Massive Attack, and fronted... more info

Tastes Like Caramel — If you’ve been reading TLC then you’re well aware of our enchantment with Florence Welch and her band The Machine. One of my favorite songs from the debut album Lungs is her cover of  Candi Staton’s 1986 hit You’ve Got the Love. A few week... more info

Guardian Music — In this week's podcast we head for the States. Actually, we don't. TheMusic Weekly private jet has been impounded. Instead, we made the States come to us. That's just how we roll. First up we have Lou Barlow, the man who founded Dinosaur Jr, then Seb... more info

!tashed — We were utterly disappointed when Florence + The Machine did not win the Mercury, losing out to Speech Debelle instead. After all, her album was such a howler and more than deserving. We are hoping sales manage to make up for her disappointment!When ... more info

Music is Art — “the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” - david russell - listen ♥ you’ve got the love (the xx remix) by florence and the machine image ♥ amores Share & Enjoy: ... more info