What we saw on the internet this week Guardianmusic.tumblr.com is the place where our writers post songs, videos, pictures and other music-related odds and ends they come across during their web trawling. Here's our top five Tumblr posts from the past week. 1. No Doubt in the studio Gwen Stefani and co kick off a series of webisodes with "the recording of the track Push & Shove, a collaboration between No Doubt, producers Major Lazer and Jamaican artist Busy Signal". Sounds … interesting . 2. The Independent Label Market's playlist Independent Label Market , taking place in London's Spitalfields ...

As you are probably aware by now the massive record collection of legendary radio presenter John Peel is being published online by the Arts Council, one section at a time. Today sees the addition of records beginning with the letter 'B', and like last weeks instalment, the collection is extensive, featuring everything from B52’s to Bach. Head here for the latest instalment as well as access to sessions and the DJ’s notes, 'C' will available from next week. What do you think of John Peel's collection so far? Let us know in the comments section below.

A couple B-52's related items for your late Friday. First, Fred Schneider will be helping former Bongo Richard Barone celebrate the 25th anniversary of his 1987 solo debut Cool Blue Halo tonight (5/4) at City Winery. Tickets are still...

Mariska Louman , Joep van Son , Marjolein Kooijman & Marnix van den Broek are The Sugarettes , a noise pop garage band from Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Their second full-length Destroyers Of Worlds is a collection of lo-fi songs with a sound and feel that is about halfway the Pixies and the B52s. Plenty of room for mistakes, but that's not a problem if you can incorporate them into the song and act if it was deliberate. This is a band that goes for the vibe and the groove. It's fast. And fun. Caveat: they like to use song titles that are ...

Harrah’s Rincon in San Diego announced a slew of new tour dates, notably with two-punch classic-rock favorites. Squeeze and B-52s take the stage on June 29th, while Joe Cocker and Huey Lewis & the News play on July 13th. Squeeze’s second album, Cool for Cats, is one of their most memorable, specifically on tracks like the humorously

Phil Lesh & Friends, Gov't Mule, and the B-52s are set to headline the 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival

The initial lineup for the 19th annual  Telluride Blues & Brews Fest has been announced and features HT faves Phil Lesh & Friends, Gov’t Mule and the Chris Robinson Brotherhood. The B-52s, Marching Band">MarchFourth Marching Band, Tab Benoit, Little Hurricane and The Lee Boys are also set to perform at the event, which takes place in scenic Telluride Town Park on September 14 – 16. As of press time, the lineup Phil will use for this gig hasn’t been revealed, but with Chris Robinson and Warren Haynes on hand at the event, we’re thinking they are a safe bet ...

Phil Lesh & Friends, Gov’t Mule, The B-52s and Chris Robinson Brotherhood are among the acts slated to appear at the 19th annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. The weekend-long event will take Place in Tell...

Phil Lesh & Friends, Gov't Mule, and the B-52s are set to headline the 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival

The most important thing to convey about Dave Phillips is that he fuses rawness and intensity with meticulous composition, rendered with an indelible form of scarcity. Whether it is short, sharp, and sparsely explosive tracks, or what Ron Lessard called “Otto Meuhl having his way with Hermann Nitsche”, Phillips uses body sounds, amphibian field recordings, conventional musical instruments, or things like party balloons, with widely varied results, but most apparently as a means to “activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden by civilized experience”. Not limited to that, “dp” has been participating in various punk, hardcore, metal acts or projects that ...

Left-click [ HERE ] to download the KONG ON EASTER  mix. TRACKLIST --- 01 CRY CRY CROW the pines 02 ALL THE GIRLS caracol 03 MY BEFORE AND AFTER cotton mather 04 FEATHERS fanfarlo 05 WHAT DID WE DO the chap 06 EYES IN THE NIGHT anchorless 07 AND LOVERS CAME the raveonettes 08 OLD BOYS bishop morocco 09 RUM RUMSPRINGA alex winston 10 MIDNIGHT ROOM [PRAGUE] blaudzun 11 I’D GO ANYWHERE WITH HUGH the magnetic fields 12 ROCK LOBSTER the b-52's 13 ANCHOR birdeatsbaby 14 INDIE LOVE SONG the frank and walters 15 REASON WITH ME sinead o’connor 16 ...

In one sense Athens, Georgia is your typical college town—40,000 students thrown into a town of 100,000 or so people, always in flux, always the same—but in a musical sense the place is extraordinary. You’d have to go 1000 miles west to Austin, or 1000 miles northeast to New York City, to find a music scene that even begins to compare to Athens, a town that’s half the size of Swindon, and one-eighth the size of Nottingham. For better or worse, the history of Athens music—The B-52’s, Pylon, R.E.M., Oh-Ok ...

At first listen Aggi Doom from Scotland reminded me of the B-52′s but it was killing me for days that they really remind me of the Bush Tetras with their minimal jungle sound. Regardless their sound is raw and the … Continue reading →

The B-52s As mentioned, Squeeze have some upcoming dates in April with The English Beat which include Bergen Performing Arts Center (4/23) in Englewood, NJ (tickets), Roseland Ballroom (4/28) in NYC (tickets), and they've since added another NJ show happening...

The week’s teetering stack of piping hot freshness in music is topped by Brad Mehldau, Esperanza Spalding and Lost in the Trees, along with notable reissues and live stuff from Aaron Neville, Impala Syndrome, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne (on his original solo date with the late Randy Rhoads, appropriate on this anniversary of his untimely passing) and the B-52s. Also hitting [...]