Guardian Music — The England PJ Harvey paints isn't the green and pleasant idyll of popular imagination, but a dear and bruised and bedraggled thingA few weeks back, I interviewed Colin Meloy of the Decemberists for these pages. Sitting in his study in Oregon, we di... more info

Stereogum — “Belong” is the title track from the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s forthcoming Flood produced/Alan Moulder mixed second album. Those guys previously brought you records by Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine, U2, and PJ Har... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — There was a band presale Tuesday morning, but Ticketmaster tickets go on AmEx presale at noon today (2/2) for the Fleet Foxes show at United Palace. General sale starts Friday. Tickets also go on AmEx presale at noon for the... more info

Nialler9 — Eh, OK. So we all knew Primavera was going to have a brilliant lineup but today they finally fired their full list and the result was enough to make you faint. Basically “BEST LINEUP EVER”. New additions: PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Big Boi, Battl... more info

The Quietus — Luke squealing about the best Festival in history etc more info

Brooklyn Vegan — PJ Harvey has confirmed two U.S. headline shows in addition to her appearance at the already sold out Coachella festival. The headline dates-April 14 at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco and April 20 at Terminal 5 in New York-fall... more info

Guardian Music — (Matador)The South Downs are made to sound very bleak on this Brighton trio's debut, a wilderness of darkening lakes, swirling mud and other ill portents. But if the usual goth tropes are present and correct, Esben and the Witch twist them into unusu... more info

Guardian Music — Hoxton Hall, LondonFeted by everyone from the godfather of ambient rock, Brian Eno, to fashionistas at Vogue, Anna Calvi's "sound pictures" and highly personal style have marked her out as one of the year's brightest hopes. Celebrating the release of... more info

ContactMusic — PJ Harvey aims to be a "war songwriter". The 'Let England Shake' singer's latest album deals with many different aspects of war through its lyrics, which required a great deal of research into historical conflicts, as well as listening to songs which... more info

Guardian Music — From the Kinks' Lola to David Bowie's Major Tom, here are your songs about characters who are not quite as they first seemI thought you might struggle to come up with songs about mistaken identity. Not so. It wasn't as tough as I thought. In fact, th... more info