Animal Collective will release a new AA single, ‘Honeycomb/Gotham’, on 7″ vinyl on June 26th. You can buy it digitally from today though, and if you pre-order it you’ll receive the MP3s now too. Have a listen below.

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Dot To Dot is a multi-venue festival unlike any other, traveling from one city to the next over the course of three days. This year, it takes place over Jubilee weekend, hitting Bristol on June 2nd, Nottingham on the 3rd and Manchester on the 4th, and we’ve got a couple of tickets to give away for it.

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BEAK> – the join kraut rock project of Geoff Barrow, Matt Williams and Billy Fuller – have announced the follow up to their 2009 debut album by uploading new track ‘Yatton’.

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When Little Death guitarist Nathan Hewitt began solo project Cheatahs, he’d play shows with a rolling lineup made up of friends from other bands. Hence the name – Cheatahs.

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In a little over a week, the finest new bands will head south to Brighton for The Great Escape 2012. It’s not all about the official programme though, with plenty of fringe party planned, a la SXSW.

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If you’ve picked up this month’s issue of Loud And Quiet, you will have heard how ex-Lovvers frontman Shaun Hencher moved back to his hometown and learned to love the sound of his own voice.

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Ahead of their European festival appearances (and a second album, probably/hopefully), The xx will play three special, intimate shows in London in two weeks.

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