Streetkiss Music — Where ? : A castel When ? : A stormy night What ? : A creature Who ? : A doctor The Horrors - I Can't-Control Myself Myspace And you ? more info

Nialler9 — Yes, it’s still list season. As State kicks off its Top 50 of the year, here are my own top 30 albums of the year in four-page epic form. 30. Channel One – Sound to Light 29. Clark – Totem’s Flare 28. The Phantom Band - Checkmate ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Being a blog that is largely of the retro variety, I'm not all that fussed about publishing a rundown of what I reckon to have been the best songs/albums of the year/decade. Yes, I do admit to making a few suggestions last month of stuff that you mi... more info

8/1 — 1 - Brett Anderson – Wilderness2 - Patrick Wolf – Bachelor3 - PJ Harvey & John Parish A Woman a Man Walked By4 - Bat For Lashes - Two Suns5 - Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light6 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers7 - Richard Hawley - Tr... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — 1. The XX- xxWhere so many bands fill their space with noise and layers these four teenagers from London showed that less can indeed be more. Set to a musical backdrop of trip-hop, two step and dub dual vocalists Olliver Sim and Romy Croft open their... more info

Guardian Music — The O2, LondonSomewhere, a booker must be feeling smug about getting the Horrors and Placebo onto the same bill. There could hardly be a better representation of different eras of goth-rock. Placebo are the old stagers, still romanticising emotional ... more info

Altsounds — Following some massive sold-out arena dates in mainland Europe, Placebo hit the UK hard this week with a tour that includes London’s o2 Arena. Supporting the band will be The Horrors and Silversun Pickups. With their latest album ÂÃ... more info

AngryApe — The band will toy with electronics on their 3rd record more info

Guardian Music — Butlins, MineheadA holiday camp in the December drizzle is not the traditional festival setting, but All Tomorrow's Parties has never fitted in the mainstream. Since its beginnings as a Belle and Sebastian-led weekender 10 years ago, the brand has ex... more info

NME — The results of our annual writers' poll are in more info