ContactMusic — Optimus Alive Festival have announced the first acts and headliners at their upcoming festival Stone Roses Radiohead and The Cure are all set to headline other first acts include Florence And The Machine Snow Patrol Metronomy and Mumford And Sons The... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis While the rest of the world was asking who the #$%@ Bonny Bear and Paul McCartney were, I was asking that same question of Of Monsters and Men who are playing here in April. They've already sold... more info

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Detroit Free Press — Happy Grammys night! If you think Bon Iver is something you forgot from high school French, Foster the People is a new nonprofit, and Mumford & Sons is an insurance agency, maybe you'll want to catch a classic movie on TCM instead. Until the fun... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Times pop music critic Randall Roberts parses the confusing nominations among the Grammy rock acts, including Coldplay, Radiohead, Mastodon, Mumford & Sons and others. more info

Chorus.fm — The Big Easy Express (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Easy-Express/247039135371967?sk=wall), a documentary film about the Railroad Revival Tour featuring Mumford and Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, will be... more info

411 Mania — A new tour documentary... more info

Guardian Music — Graham Coxon invites you to nominate local support acts on his tour of upcoming album A+E (13-30 Apr, starts at O2 Academy Oxford, grahamcoxon.co.uk) …New Order get motoring, minus Peter Hook, for their first UK tour in six years (26 Apr-5 May, sta... more info

Guardian Music — Music news, reviews and discussion from the last seven daysIn the newsHappy Mondays announce reunion tourNeil Young: I was working on new iPod with Steve JobsJack White announces debut solo albumAdele to make live return at GrammysReviewsAlbum: Dom L... more info

Guardian Music — Both intimate and immense, Gabriel Levine's triumph of slow-burning melody demands repeated, rapt attentionHometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Gabriel Levine (vocals, guitar) and friends.The background: There are certain labels you have to sit up and take... more info