ContactMusic — Music mogul Alan Mcgee is in talks to recreate the record label that produced Oasis Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine The talent spotter-turned-executive shut down Creation Records after 16 years in 1999 and formed new label Poptones which he wra... more info

Guardian Music — From the Clash to Boy George to Ian Dury, musical creativity and squat culture are inseparable – which is why this new law is such a bad ideaThis weekend a new law came into force that makes squatting – the occupation of empty buildings by otherw... more info

Guardian Music — Band's website crashes as fans rush to hear new material from a group who make the Stone Roses look like Billy ChildishThe Avalanches have released their first original song in a decade. A Cowboy Overflow of the Heart is a spoken-word demo featuring ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Swans, The Drones, Beasts Of Bourbon also booked for Australian festival. more info

Prefix — My Bloody Valentine put out just as much music -- okay, more -- in the '80s as they did in ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/features/my-bloody-valentine/quarantining-the-past-seven-hidden-gems-from-my-bl/67346/ more info

Guardian Music — From handbags and gladrags to white socks and flip flops, here are your sartorial soundsLast week's call for songs about clothes prompted some winning styles, after a lot of rummaging around for forgotten rags and prized combos.Clothes are of course ... more info

Impose Magazine — The Bilinda Butchers named their group after the My Bloody Valentine singer/guitarist, and you can tell that the admiration stems directly from her trademark wispy, reverbed vocals. The reverbed singing is one of the most imitated musical traits of ... more info

melophobe — Some will find this overlong and excessively layered—all those strings, horns, choirs, drums, and feedback squalls. Me, I enjoyed peeling back Spiritualized’s onion skins of space rock and black gospel, bound together by Jason Pierce’s weary vo... more info

melophobe — There are many things that follow A Place to Bury Strangers - accolades, fuzz, smoke - but the most prominent has always been a warning: bring earplugs. Like My Bloody Valentine, their show is a place where unprotected eardrums go to die. Sunday’s ... more info

Guardian Music — (Vertigo)The world may not need any more dream-pop exponents but Oxford five-piece Fixers are too ravishing to ignore. Fittingly, for a band who come from the Thames Valley, their debut album references not just the usual acts (Animal Collective, Pan... more info