WHAT: End Of The Road goes north, heads to the start of the season rather than the end and reconnects with its smaller-scale roots WHY: Because they know how to run a niche festival and have brought some of their old friends along to help out WHEN: 8th-10th June WHERE: Welbeck Abbey, near Worksop HOW: Weekend tickets £105 WHO: FRIDAY: Dirty Three, The Low Anthem, Diagrams, Peaking Lights, Austra, Django Django, Veronica Falls, Lanterns On The Lake, Dad Rocks!, Wet Nuns, SATURDAY: Andrew Bird, Gruff Rhys, David Thomas Broughton, Other Lives, Beth Jeans Houghton, The Cornshed Sisters, The Shark">Joe ...

The eighth annual Great Escape Festival took place last weekend in Brighton, U.K., with many amazing bands gracing the local stages in the charming seaside English town. Here's a gallery of photos from the festival, including photos of Grimes, EMA, Beth Jeans Houghton, Django Django, Slow Club, When Saints Go Machine, Porcelain Raft, and others.

WHAT: The boutique, family-friendlier self-answer to Field Day WHY: High quality handpicked music, plus comedy, art, magic and a food market WHEN: 3rd June WHERE: Victoria Park HOW: £35 WHO: Scritti Politti, Billy Bragg, Josh T Pearson, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad & The Lovely Posse, Beth Jeans Houghton, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Penguin Café, Marques Toliver, Noah & The Whale, Jamie N Commons, Gaz Coombes, Lianne La Havas, Stornoway, Marcus Foster

Festival No. 6 has expanded, with Richard Hawley, Death In Vegas and more being added to the bill. Held in the beautiful, bizarre Welsh town of Port Merion, Festival No. 6 is a unique addition to the summer calendar. Running between September 14th - 16th, Festival No. 6 has already confirmed appearances from Factory icons New Order, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, British Sea Power, Summer Camp and more. Announcing a swathe of new additions, Festival No. 6 has confirmed an appearance from Richard Hawley. Sheffield crooner turned psychedelic wanderer, the songwriter joins an ever expanding bill at the Welsh event. Still capable ...

WHAT: The touring day-long multi-venue festival takes on/over Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester WHY: Every year they could just book whoever major labels throw at them, but instead there's always more than a sprinkling of fascinating, usually American names WHEN: 2nd-4th June WHERE: 2nd: Bristol O2 Academy, Thekla, Louisiana, Trinity, Fleece and Start The Bus 3rd: Nottingham Rock City, Rescue Rooms, Stealth, Bodega and Jongleurs 4th: Manchester Ritz, Deaf Institute, Academy and Sound Control HOW: £20 WHO: Islet, Summer Camp, Willis Earl Beal, Friends (Nottingham only), Wavves, Pulled Apart By Horses, Beth Jeans Houghton (Bristol), Clock Opera, Hooray For ...

Perhaps YOU, fair reader, need encouragement to look past the U.K. gossip rags and Houghton’s Gaga-esque costumery, and really engage with this album’s songs. Do it!

Being unique is one of those characteristics that many of us strive for but few actually attain (regardless of what your Mum tells you). According to Dot to Dot festival however, being different to everyone else isn’t all that hard. Just take your merry band of soon-to-be-massive artists on a trip across three UK cities, fill up a host of venues in each city, all over the course of one weekend. Simple? No, not really. Now entering its seventh year, the Dot to Dot organisers have an impressive knack for picking relatively unknown artists who then go on to ...

WHAT: Up to 15,000 people, 300 bands, 30 venues WHY: It's become a one-stop shop for big names with something to prove to themselves, up and coming acts getting set for big summers and the little men fighting their corner WHEN: 10th-12th May WHERE: Across Brighton WHO: THURSDAY: Maximo Park, Friends, Niki & The Dove, Jonquil, Toy, Mystery Jets, Eugene McGuinness, Zulu Winter, Django Django, Willy Mason, Cloud Nothings, Fever Fever, Deaf Club, Jamie N Commons, Bastille, Ben Kweller, Francois & The Atlas Mountains, White Arrows, Weird Dreams, Gross Magic, Cut Ribbons, Shabazz Palaces, Sunless 97, Gemma Hayes, Tribes, Gaz ...

Emmy The Great has been added to the line-up for the Truck Festival, which will already feature The Temper Trap, Mystery Jets, Villagers, and The Low Anthem among many others. Emmy, who played at Hill Farm in 2008 and 2006, is one of a number of late additions to the line-up that have caught FFS’s eye, with Lucy Rose, Michele Stodart and Kill It Kid the others. Truck Festival 2012 takes place on July 20th & 21st at Hill Farm, Steventon in Oxfordside. To see the full line-up, and get details on tickets – which will cost £69 inc camping for ...

The organisers of The Green Man have confirmed another batch of new additions. Hidden in the black mountains, The Green Man is one of Britain's most idiosyncratic events. In the past the festival has invited Celtic druids to bless the site in case of rain, and their free-thinking spreads through every aspect of the event. Continuing to expand, Green Man recently added several new names to its line up. The Tallest Man On Earth will return to Brecon Beacons for the first time since 2010, bringing with them a new album. 'There's No Leaving No' is due to ...

Rising singer-songwriters deliver another set of performances.

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It's that time of year again - Record Store Day 2012 is upon us and the ClashMusic are busy rifling through our wallets, raiding our piggy bigs and selling our vital organs to secure our vinyl fix. There's a lot to choose from. To view the complete list of associated releases click HERE . If you want to know our thoughts then read on... - - - Fire">Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (Soulwax Remix) Soulwax have put out some great remixes in recent years so it's no surprise that they've taken Fire">Arcade Fire's best track from ...

Last night the 40th series of Later…with Jools Holland kicked off, and with Beth Jeans Houghton and Willis Earl Beal performing it wasn't such a bad way to start. The highlight has to be Beth Jeans Houghton's dance moves at the beginning of 'Atlas'. Boogie woogie your eyes to these videos: Willis Earl Beal - 'Swing On Low' Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny - 'Atlas'

RIsing songwriters kick off the newest season.