Arcade fire

Our favourite party band are playing the alternative Glastonbury

Strokes guitarist and Tinariwen to appear at Uncut-sponsored festival

Uncut favourite's Midlake also to play the Henham Park event

As I mentioned yesterday, Wild Mercury Sound is taking a holiday in Texas next week. The pile of new albums will have to wait a while; I've got fine things by Rufus Wainwright, Battles, The 1990s and Alberta Cross here that I haven't had time to write about yet. Next week, though, I'll be filing slightly frantic daily reports from the South By Southwest festival in Austin, as I try and see a good dozen or so newish bands a day. I've just been having a quick look through the list of artists playing, and I really want to check all these out, for a start.

The period for registration ended at midnight

Capacity increase means you can still see Arctics, Killers and Snow Patrol

The deadline to send your photos in has been extended

Thanks for all your comments on the Arctic Monkeys blog. Hopefully, I should have my own copy of the album in a few weeks, and I'll post something more considered than last week's effort once I've listened to it more than once. In the meantime, I figured I should allay one or two fears.

Artic Monkeys, Killers and Snow Patrol to headline

This week's musical musings include the 'Dead, Babyshambles and Cat Power