Guardian Music — Orbital spun the decks, punk girls reminisced, MPs wooed women voters and Byron was less bothered about their voteThere's something about Orbital that is inextricably linked with the summer's festival season – in fact, they have just announced... more info

Addict Music — Also added to the bill today are Blood Red Shoes, The Slits, Everything Everything, Surfer Blood, Egyptian Hip Hop and Detroit Social Club. more info

Guardian Music — Paul Morley on Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip, a pair of "novelty" rappers who join the dots between Mos Def and Ivor Biggun, Benny Hill and Benjamin Zephaniah "... nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement" – Sc... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Couple of treats for you today. First up Teenagersintokyo. Teenagersintokyo (or "TIT" as they're probably not abbreviated as) are a slightly gothier NYPC that have been winning fans at support slots for the likes of CSS and The Slits, and are set ... more info

Guardian Music — This 20-piece female choir will either strike you as magically sonorous or remind you that 'cat' is the first syllable of 'caterwaul'Hometown: London.The lineup: Alibi, Bennett, Coughlin, Culwick, D, Dana, Green, Gusset, Honey, Kiki, Kumari, Launette... more info

Stereogum — "English Cities" is a kinetic pop track from San Francisco trio Brilliant Colors' full-length debut, Introducing. The 10 songs (in just about 24 minutes) follow hard-to-track-down singles on Makes A Mess and Captured Tracks. The group's fronted by si... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Monday: The Slits, The Sundelles, + Sisters @ Highline Ballroom 7pm $15 [tix]Amid all the hoopla surrounding the reunions of bands like Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, The Vaselines, Mission of Burma, etc., etc., some of reunions have been los... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 12-10 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill 12-13 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo12-14 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom   more info

NME — Band slam gig-goers for abusing support band more info

Guardian Music — Last week I was talking about LA, this week it's Notting Hill. My glamorous press trips are getting closer to home, so next week's Sleeve Notes special will be live from the Sainsbury's car park on Dalston Lane. Anyway, my reason for heading to Notti... more info