ContactMusic — Peter Hook is determined to fk New Order over in any way possible The bassist is furious his former bandmates Bernard Sumner Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert are reforming to play two charity shows in Belgium and Paris without him this month... more info

NME — Bassist also says the idea that his old band are reforming for charity is 'bollocks' more info

ContactMusic — Former New Order bassist Peter Hook has blasted his former bandmates for reuniting without him insisting their upcoming charity get together is just a smoke screen for a lucrative U S tour Frontman Bernard Sumner drummer Stephen Morris and keyboard p... more info

Totally Fuzzy — BBC Series investigating what makes the perfect rock 'n' roll band. Meet the band's secret weapon: 'the other one'. They might play bass; maybe keyboards; sometimes it's not clear what they do at all. Underestimate them with... more info

Guardian Music — Castaway Chris Salmon loses himself in the BBC's vast Desert Island Discs archiveThere was a splash of publicity earlier this year when it was revealed that the BBC was to create a full Desert Island Discs archive on its website. A few months on, it... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Dutch DJ Kypski has started his own label Partyscratch Music. His frst release is an EP bySpag Heddy, nom-de-plume of Mischa Reining, who has been creating beats since 2006. De Drop contains six songs, well two actually, since the title track is of... more info

Altsounds — Glacial, barren and difficult, OCTAVIUS' Laws arrives in stark contrast to synth pop-derived efforts of recent fashion. Informed specifically by Bowie's Low, New Order's Movement and Tricky's Pre-Millennium Tension, Laws is OCTAVIUS in a daringly... more info

Popdose — OMD's dark electronic sounds were right in step with New Order and Depeche Mode, and yet "Electricity" couldn't find an audience on either side of the pond over three releases more info

KEXP Seattle — Last week, New Order announced two charity benefit shows for band friend Michael Schamberg, who produced a number of the band’s early videos. The band also noted the absence of their long-suffering bassist Peter Hook, an exclusion that Hook has res... more info

Guardian Music — Inspired by a trip to the Joshua Tree, the new conceptual double album by M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, is likely to polarise fans'I am very happy," Anthony Gonzalez, aka M83, reassures me twice during our interview, lest the recurring themes of solitud... more info