In addition to debuting his forthcoming single ‘Jupiter’, electronic producer Kieran Hebden – aka Four Tet – has also shared details of a live date taking place at South London’s Brixton Academy on 2 Nov.

Tickets for the show, which will run throughout the night and feature marathon DJ sets by Four Tet, Caribou and tbc extra guests, are priced at £5 each (plus £1.60 booking fee) in fond memory of the time Hebden says he “saw Fugazi at Brixton in the 1990s… £5 ticket, no light show, no bullshit… one of the best things I’ve ever seen”.

The just mentioned ‘Jupiter’ will be released with its B-side ‘Ocaras’ via Hebden’s own Text Records on an as-yet unspecified date in the future.

As you speculate on exactly what that date might be, listen to the former track here:

Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan has annonced a new live date, her first UK appearance in over a year, at The Cambridge Junction on 13 Jun. The show will serve as a preamble to Bat For Lashes’ various festival bookings, which include slots at Latitude, Bestival and Ireland’s Electric Picnic.

Provided they haven’t sold out, tickets for the Cambridge Junction date are available here.

When The Wanted aren’t busy making antagonistic remarks about sundry female pop stars, they can customarily be found saying nice things about Chris Brown, with whom they may or may not be recording/touring with soon.

The band alluded to an alliance with the rapper during an on-air interview for Capital FM last week, saying that Scooter Braun – manager of serial Brown collaborator Justin Bieber and now also seemingly representing the British boy band in the US – had been in talks with Breezy as to potential duet opportunities.

Says The Wanted’s Max George: “We met Chris Brown – he came in and saw us at the studio when we were rehearsing – and he was actually really sound. He said he liked our music and stuff. He’d spoke to Scooter since then and said he’d love to do a song with us so who knows? If it’s the right song then we’ll do it”.

Bandmate Tom Parker then said: “There’s talk about us, he’s got his American tour coming up in July, maybe we’ll go on that for a few shows which will be cool. Hitting that urban market – The Wanted go urban”.

The xx have announced a three-date, London-exclusive micro tour, which will serve as a live primer for the band’s busy festival season. Given that demand for the shows is anticipated to be high, spaces at each date are available via an online lottery closing on 8 May. Successful applicants will be contacted with a code, and can then purchase tickets for their chosen event. This isn’t a free-for-all sort of lottery, mind, passes are priced at £19.50 plus a booking fee.

And said dates are:

14 May: Islington, Electrowerkz
15 May Hackney, Chats Palace
18 May Battersea, Battersea Arts Centre

Look everyone, it’s roving folk convoy Beirut, and they’re bound for a venue reasonably near you! Well, that’s dependent on whether you live either in London, Leeds or Glasgow. Or if you’re attending this year’s Field Day or Forbidden Fruit festivals, where they will also play.

Well anyway, here are the tour dates, which will mark over a year since the band released their third studio LP, ‘The Rip Tide’:

11 Sep: Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
12 Sep: Leeds, Academy
14 Sep: London, Hammersmith Apollo

Not satisfied with selling out a forthcoming June tour, ambitious electronica lot Poliça are looking to do the same with a new set of winter dates.

They’ve paired the news with the online release of French twosome Meridians’ rather suave remix of ‘Dark Star’, as appears in its original form on the band’s debut album ‘Give You The Ghost’.

Download or listen to it here:

Tour dates:

2 Nov: Glasgow, SWG3
3 Nov:  Manchester, Sound Control
4 Nov: Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
5 Nov: Bristol, Thekla
6 Nov: Brighton, The Haunt
20 Nov: London, Heaven

Having distinguished itself from ‘X-Factor’ with some swivelling chairs and much lower standards, BBC One’s ‘The Voice’ has now announced a cash-in tour to exploit the show’s finalists. Well, it works for ‘X-Factor’, so why not?

Due to take place in September, tickets for the gigs will go on sale this Friday at 9am.

Tour dates:

12 Sep: Bournemouth, International Centre
13 Sep: Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
15 Sep: London, O2 Arena
17 Sep: Brighton, Brighton Centre
19 Sep: Birmingham LG Arena
21 Sep: Glasgow, SECC Arena
22 Sep: Aberdeen, AECC
23 Sep: Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
25 Sep: Liverpool, Echo Arena
26 Sep: Manchester, Manchester Arena
27 Sep: Sheffield, Motorpoint Arena

When everyone was chatting about Tupac’s holographic guest appearance at Coachella recently, and speculation began as to what other dead artists might be resurrected on the live stage using the same ‘not-really-a-hologram’ technology, a lot of Twitter-chatterers predicted Brian May and Roger Taylor would be playing with a virtual Freddie Mercury by the end of the year, squeezing even more out of the Mercury-era Queen legacy.

But Taylor says no. Though he’s not opposed to other people performing Queen songs with a computer generated Freddie. And given the drummer is in the process of launching the officially-sanctioned Queen tribute show, which is set to tour the world with only very occasional guest spots from May and Taylor, that still means holograms could feature in official Queen ventures, if not when the remaining members of the band themselves play.

Asked about all the talk of a holographic Mercury joining him and guitarist May on stage, Taylor told reporters: “I would not like to perform with a hologram of Freddie. Were somebody [else] to use a hologram of Freddie I would have no objection, but [for me] it’s the real one or nothing. It doesn’t sit too well for me to appear with a hologram of my dear friend. But I think it is an amazing effect when used properly”.

Dionne Warwick and a glittering live line-up will perform as part of a gala evening hosted by The Hunger Project, a charity combating international famine and poverty.

Also appearing at the event, which will mark World Hunger Day, is a diverse cast covering the classic (Cliff Richard, Boy George, Tony Hadley), and the more contemporary (Alexandra Burke, Joe McElderry, Katie Melua), with special accompaniment coming from the Southbank Sinfonia orchestra and London Community Gospel Choir.

You can buy tickets for the concert, as will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on 28 May, here.

Marina And The Diamonds, aka Marina Diamandis, has had to delay the start date of her ‘Lonely Hearts Club’ tour, citing ongoing medical issues with her voice. The outing was meant to begin in London this Thursday following the release of the singer’s new album ‘Electra Heart’, but has instead been postponed to June. Tickets for all cancelled shows are still valid at their equivalent new dates.

Communicating news of the changes via this official statement, Marina says: “It is with huge regret that I have had to postpone my UK tour dates due to medical advice. I have been experiencing vocal problems for three weeks now and consequently today the doctor has told me that I cannot sing performance length shows while I undergo treatment, or I could cause permanent damage to my vocal chords”.

The amended dates are thus:

18 Jun: Norwich, Waterfront
20 Jun: Glasgow, ABC
21 Jun: Edinburgh, Queens Hall
22 Jun: Manchester, Cathedral
24 Jun: Leamington, Assembly Hall
25 Jun: London, Tabernacle
27 Jun: Cardiff, Corn Exchange
29 Jun: Birmingham, Institute
30 Jun: Sheffield, Leadmill

Shoegaze youths SCUM are to take up a one-night residency at The Bishopsgate Institute in East London, playing live and curating a range of music, poetry and film by their artistic associates.

With the band’s debut album ‘Again Into Eyes’ set for a reissue later in the year, the event – which is titled ‘The Reading Of The Truth’ – will take place on 26 May.

Kerrang! is to host a trio of shows in recognition of its namesake awards ceremony, which takes place on 7 Jun.

Skindred and Surrey trio Arcane Roots will headline respectively at London’s The Garage and Barfly on 5 Jun, while Architects play at The Garage the following night.

Tickets for all dates go on sale today.

As the above headline all but reveals, Cypress Hill are destined to play a standalone date at The Forum.

The hip hop group, who will visit the London venue on 5 Jun, are at the moment promoting ‘Cypress x Rusko’, their collaborative racket with the dubstep producer.

Cypress rapper Sen Dog says this of the EP (which, despite being billed for release this month, doesn’t seem to be out yet): “I think dubstep is a natural progression of hip hop. Especially the way that we formulated it with Rusko, there’s definitely some roughness to it”.

Maximo Park have made a two-part declaration regarding their forthcoming album, ‘The National Health’, confirming the release of its first single, ‘Hips And Lips’, and also setting the dates for a trio of promotional shows.

Preview ‘Hips And Lips’, the issue date for which is the same as the album’s own (11 Jun), after these live dates:

6 Jun: Birmingham, Glee Club
7 Jun: Manchester Sound Control
8 Jun: London Heaven

Losers, the band formed by XFM presenter and CMU columnist Eddy Temple-Morris and former Cooper Temple Clause guitarist Tom Bellamy, returned with a new line-up and new songs this week.

Now bolstered by former yourcodenameis:milo vocalist Paul Mullen and ex-Oceansize drummer Mark Heron, they supported Sunshine Underground at London’s XOYO last night and join the band again at The Haunt in Brighton tonight. Londoners kicking themselves for missing out need not worry though, they’ll be back in the capital on Friday night to play Club NME at Koko in Camden.

If the Koko show takes your fancy, the band have an unlimited £4 guestlist – just get in touch with Eddy via Twitter or Facebook to add your name to the list.

Now, this seems like the perfect opportunity to dig out the fantastic video for ‘Flush’ from Losers’ debut album, ‘Beautiful Losers’:

Having played a great show at London’s CAMP just last week, alt-pop sort Oberhofer has added a couple of extra appointments to his live itinerary. The dates – which take place at the Manchester-based Deaf Institute (21 May) and Hoxton Bar & Kitchen (22 May) – will serve to further promote Brad Oberhofer and band’s just released debut album ‘Time Capsules II’.

Taken from that, have a free copy of ‘Heart’, and/or a glance at the video for new single ‘Away Frm U’:

Singer-songwriter José González will appear alongside Saharan band Tiniarwen at a joint concert, collaborating live at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on 3 May.

The two rarely-seen acts will share a double bill coordinated by promoter SoundCrash Music, who incidentally are also hosting a three hour DJ set by Ninja Tune signing Bonobo on the other side of London just under a month later.

Taking place on 1 Jun at the 2932 East warehouse in Hackney, the latter line-up also co-stars Raffertie and Throwing Snow. Without wishing to steal José’s thunder, or anything.

Refer to the SoundCrash site for further details.

Coldplay, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Jessie J and Example are amongst the guests confirmed for Capital FM’s Summertime Ball this year. Biebs, Chris Martin et al will also be joined by Flo Rida, Usher, Pitbull, Kelly Clarkson and CMU regulars (and Capital FM managed) The Wanted at the one-day event, which will take over Wembley Stadium on 9 Jun. Tickets, which went on sale yesterday, can still be purchased at this URL.

And here are Capital DJ Dave Berry’s comments: “The secret’s out… the best ever line-up for the Summertime Ball is finally out there. It doesn’t get much bigger than this and I can’t wait to be there!”

With their new album, ‘Sweet Heart, Sweet Light’ the subject of conflicting reviews (see Pitchfork’s 8.8 adulation vs The Quietus’ damning summation), a nonplussed Spiritualized have nonetheless arranged a live outing to mark its recent release.

You’ll also find the video for first ‘Sweet Heart’ single ‘Hey Jane’ beneath the following dates:

1 Nov: Gateshead, The Sage
2 Nov: Cambridge, Junction
3 Nov: Leeds, Metropolitan University
4 Nov: Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
5 Nov: London, Roundhouse
6 Nov: Brighton, Corn Exchange

Having sold out four national dates this month alone, dubstep artist Flux Pavilion will capitalise on his present popularity with an extended October tour.

The producer and multi-instrumentalist, real name Josh Steele, is to release his Example-featuring new single, ‘Daydreamer’, next week. Why not view the track’s official video after you’ve scanned the tour dates in question:

4 Oct: Cardiff, Solus
5 Oct: Oxford, Academy
6 Oct: Portsmouth, Pyramids
8 Oct: Birmingham, Institute
10 Oct: London, Koko
12 Oct: Manchester, Ritz
13 Oct: Leeds, Metropolitan University
14 Oct: Liverpool, Academy
16 Oct: Lincoln, Engine Shed
17 Oct: Norwich, UEA
18 Oct: Newcastle, Academy
20 Oct: Glasgow, ABC