Stereogum — Lucy Bridger directs this wistful, pastoral clip for Balearic beatmaker Chad Valley’s churning groove “Shell Suite.” Chad Valley, the alias of Jonquil member Hugo Manuel, also had “Shell Game” remixed by Fourcolor which you can check out, a... more info

BBC 6 Music — The club hosted early gigs by Ultravox, Sex Pistols and Mick Hucknall more info

Altsounds — Cheering up your Monday with the news that *John Foxx And The Maths* are announcing their first ever UK tour in October, featuring material from their new album Interplay as well as classic songs from early Ultravox and Foxx's solo career! Interpl... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Pleasure Principle is the third studio album, and debut album under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1979. Released the same year as Replicas (under the name Tubeway Army), The Pleasure Principle also went to num... more info

Guardian Music — Somerset House, LondonManchester electro-duo Hurts are so in thrall to new-romantic stylishness that one review of last year's debut album, Happiness, suggested that even their gigs were probably "in monochrome". If they could have pulled it off, tha... more info

DrownedInSound — A consistently blissful and thrilling EP that bodes well for any forthcoming album. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Nialler9 — A new Balearic-sounding single from Hugo Manuel aka Chad Valley and the singer of also-worthy of attention Jonquil, taken from the Equatorial Ultravox EP. Fearne Cotton somehow managed to follow this song on the radio with Taylor Swift. The video was... more info

XLR8R — UK electro-pop producer Chad Valley drops his new EP, Equatorial Ultravox, on Cascine on June 20. He has also teamed up with director Lucy Bridger to create a video for opening track "Now That I'm Real (How Does It Feel?)," a light-hearted blac... more info

Guardian Music — A soaring paean to youthful hopes and dreams that comes with an intimate black-and-white videoLast July, for my first ever new music blog, I featured Oxford's Hugo Manuel, aka Chad Valley, and the rather lovely Up and Down. Nearly a year later, Manue... more info

Popdose — Dave Steed takes a trip to land of U2, Midge Ure, Ultravox and more as he checks out '80s rock songs from artists beginning with the letter U. more info