NME — Brother, Tribes, Little Dragon will also play May event more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - The first acts have been announced for the Brighton festival... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Friendly Fires at Webster Hall (more by Paul Birman) Did you get tickets to the now-sold out Friendly Fires show at Bowery (happening 2/7)? If not, be patient, the SXSW-bound band will also tour North America in late-May/June which will... more info

NME — Tinie Tempah, Friendly Fires and Beirut also join Benacassim bill more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Friendly Fires at Webster Hall in 2009 (more by Paul Birman) It has been just over a year since UK dance-punks Friendly Fires were last in NYC (at Webster Hall with the xx). And while the band still isn't heading... more info

Chorus.fm — *Friendly Fires* (http://www.myspace.com/friendlyfires) have announced two US dates in February 2011.These are the first US shows the band has played in 14 months and they have chosen the more intimate venues to showcase material from their forthcomi... more info

Guardian Music — Recording of an orchestra not playing may yet be the most serious competition the forthcoming X Factor winner will haveIn a small, stuffy Soho recording studio, the musicians were poised to begin. Headphones on, guitars slung, drumsticks raised, fing... more info

DJmag — Download collaboration with Azari and III more info

Guardian Music — (Wall of Sound)Aeroplane were a pair of Belgian DJ/remixers whose star was made by a sumptuous remix of Friendly Fires' Paris, which had the symbiotic effect of making them both more popular. An act in their own right, their biplane became a solo fli... more info

Guardian Music — (B-Unique)"Fenech-Soler" sounds so dispiritingly like a firm of accountants that you could be deterred from exploring further – it certainly doesn't prepare you for glittering electropop produced by a Peterborough quartet in lurex cardigans and guy... more info