Kings of A&R — Buzz Track: Strangers Vikunja is a Swedish rock/pop band who has started to create a buzz without having an album out. The band is close to signing with Warner Scandinavia. For fans of The Verve, Keane, and Coldplay. Contact: magnus@catapult-music.co... more info

78s — Kinder haben das Sandmännchen oder auf gut schweizerisch das “Guetnachtgschichtli”, Musiknerds haben die #Gutenachtmusik auf 78s. Die Flight Facilities aus Australien haben wir euch bereits letzten November in der “Sonntagsmusik” vorgestellt... more info

Guardian Music — Meet the Manchester band making rock as visionary as the Verve and as massive as MuseReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Manchester. The lineup: George Agan (vocals, guitar), Will Clutton (bass, keyboards), Steve Mclnerney (guitar) and Nathan How... more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Armenian piano wunderkind Tigran Hamasyan is here to play from Fable, an album he released on Verve 18 months ago when he was only 22 years old. It's a debut that leaves you clutching at references. Like Bartók, he takes anci... more info

Guardian Music — Watch the winning videos, including MIA's Bad Girls, which picked up three top prizes at the ceremony in LondonIt features drag racing across a desert, burning old tankards and gun-toting Arabs in military fatigues – and it has already enjoyed a ke... more info

Guardian Music — Brixton Academy, London"Where the fuck did you lot come from?" inquires Richard Hawley, glaring out at the crowd. This is South Yorkshire parlance for: "Hello, my fanbase – one pleasantly swollen since the release of my latest album, Standing at th... 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

Kings of A&R — Buzz Track: Sinking In California rockers Great White Buffalo are creating a big buzz with the release of their full length ‘All At Once’ which was co-produced by Grammy Winner Phil Allen (Adele 21). After spending time with the tracks you will ... more info

Guardian Music — In PG Wodehouse's day they knew how to react when someone played a hackneyed, over-sentimental dirge – they hurled rotten fruitI wonder if we are the new Greece. Not economically, obviously – that's possibly for later – but in a football sense.... more info

Guardian Music — Last month, Laura Barton wrote about her favourite and much-missed record store. When Alan's reopened, they asked her along to man the tillMesnes Street in Wigan runs from the heart of town down towards the park. It begins busily, with bakeries and c... more info