Les Savy Fav today announced that the eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2007's 'Let's Stay Friends' will be released on Wichita Recordings on Sept. 13. Cited by the band's guitarist, Syd Butler, as an LP that "captures all the best parts of Les Savy Fav", the album is set to be called 'Root for Ruin'. Having spent the best part of 2010 so far ...

The Strokes played an intimate 'secret' gig to fans at Camden's Dingwalls in North London on Wednesday night -- their first performance as a band proper in nearing four years. As announced on NME.com Tuesday (8 June), a band called Venison with a suspiciously Strokes-like logo was to play the tiny London show for a mere £10 ($15) a head. ...

The original reel-to reel-recording of a 1966 press conference where the Beatles defended their "Bigger than Jesus" comment is set to go to auction on June 13 in Los Angeles. Speaking with the BBC, auctioneers Bonhams and Butterfields who are selling off this piece of entertainment history, said, "We do know what they said that day, we have just ...

What do you do if you're asked to mix up one of your favourite songs but live in fear of ruining it? Phoenix may well have just come up with an oddly perfect solution. Presenting a somewhat DIY and random approach to remixing, the band has presented on its website what they're calling "an aleatory and combinatory remix" of Grizzly Bear's ...

Reading and Leeds Festivals may expand to a third site in 2011 -- with organisers hinting the new bash could be overseas. Speaking to the Daily Star on April 24, Melvin Benn, of promoters Festival Republic, said he was considering taking the three-day event to foreign shores - but not necessarily warmer climes. He said, "We may well develop a ...

Vampire Weekend have been unveiled as the latest headliners at the Eden Sessions in Cornwall this summer -- and the band has also revealed it will release new material before the year's out. In an interview with BBC 6 Music, frontman Ezra Koenig said that the band has already talked about a follow-up to their chart-topping second LP, 'Contra,' ...

Paul Weller and AC/DC have revved up the old "mods against rockers" rivalry as the two acts slug it out for pole position in the UK album charts -- and if mid-week chart report is anything go by, the "Modfather" could well be the one popping the corks when the results are declared on Sunday, April 25. Currently holding the top spot is Weller's ...