Chris Martin has told Zane Lowe on Radio 1 that Coldplay are to hoping to play a huge gig at Knebworth, following in the footsteps of that old Robbie Williams character. Martin said: “We’re trying to book a place that rhymes with Blebworth.

Following the release of their debut album ‘The Chemistry Of Common Life’, and a rather interesting sounding twelve hour gig in New York last week (assisted by the likes of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Dinosaur Jr’s J. Mascis and Moby, apparently), Fucked Up have announced a run of UK dates, as follows:

It’s only the bloomin CMJ Music Marathon in New York this week – hurrah. Among the bands due to play are kiwi indie types Cut Off Your Hands, who have five shows in NYC during CMJ.

The Long Blondes have announced that they have split up, following a stroke suffered by guitarist Dorian Cox back in June.

Friends of Arctic Monkeys and Last Shadow Puppets frontman Alex Turner apparently don’t like his girlfriend, Alexa Chung. According to The Sun, the couple’s “slushy smooching” has led friends to hide “behind pub sofas cringing”, and they have also taken exception to Chung’s tendency to refer to Alex as Alexander.

The Strokes’ bassist Nikolai Fraiture has told the BBC that the band are planning to start work on their new album in the new year.

It grabs you, thrashes you, rotates you and throws you to the floor. And that’s only the opening. Micron Sixty Three provide an electrifying, head pounding slice of 80’s dance music with a darker filling of vocals that leave you as confused and disorientated as the flashing neon lights blaring in your face.  Intensifying every [...]