San Fransisco’s GIRLS plan to play just once in the UK this year, on May 28th, at London’s Kentish Town Forum. It’ll be the band’s biggest UK show to date, in more ways than one.

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Since we interviewed James Welsh, aka Seams, in May 2010, he’s moved to Berlin and has toured with Gold Panda and Dam Mantle, amongst other things. He’s just signed a record deal too, with London label Full Time Hobby.

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This month’s issue of Loud And Quiet will be in stores from Saturday [May 19th], featuring exclusive interviews with Lil B, Graham Coxon, ∆, Female Band, Hot Chip, Chet Faker, Ladyhawke, Mac DeMarco and Japandroids.

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Still no sign of a third album by HEALTH, but the LA noise band have, it turns out, composed the soundtrack to computer game Max Payne 3.

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Ahead of the their Hyde Park show to close the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Blur have announce that they will play 4 intimate shows in order to get match fit.

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Gold Panda has been threatening to release an artist other than himself via his Notown label for a while, and it seems only right that the first be Norwich artist Luke Abbott.

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