Fall

First UK gig of their tour kicks off in London

Tracklisting for 6th record plus UK tour dates

Plus Dirty Pretty Things, Little Feat and The Watson Twins in our releases round-up!

Winning Watsons exploit genetic advantage

Not to be confused with the late ‘60s German Krautrock group of the same name, Anglophile New Yorkers Interpol will close Latitude Festival 2008 with a barrage of their Television and Joy Division indebted, guitar-driven storytelling songs.

Also White Denim and Weezer in our releases round-up!

New tricks/old fallbacks from divine shoegazers

When we were talking about Coldplay the other day, one of the regulars, Jamesewan, posted some thoughts which suggested that the British music scene “has been in a kind of depression for a while now.” It’s not something I worry about a great deal, to be honest, since I don’t really care where the records I like come from – and they usually come from America, realistically.

It’s easy to lose track of actual release dates up here in the ivory tower, but I believe tomorrow is the day that Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” finally comes out. Hence, I guess, the exponential ramping-up of all the furrowed-brow pontificating that seems to be going on about the band all over the internet today, provoked in many places by Andy Gill’s 2,000-word assassination of the band in this morning’s copy of The Independent.

Former Blur guitarist, Graham Coxon lends his support