Surprisingly stylish makeover for 80s veterans

Two fresh dispatches from DFA HQ

B-sides and remixes from Damon Albarn’s great apes

B-side to be another 'lost' song recorded in 1988

Find out where with the NME special Bloc Party single giveaway

Record number of tickets sold yesterday means extra Finnish date now added

The blue rock band cover Rainy Day Women in Moscow

'In Rainbows' to get released physically in America too

Just looking at the booklet which comes with the new Aidan John Moffat (out of Arab Strap) CD. Opposite the page which begins, in big letters, “PART ONE: POOP”, there’s something that isn’t a disclaimer, more a claimer, I suppose. “The characters portrayed in this work are non-fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is entirely intentional.”

Billy Corgan and co hit arenas in February