Deerhunter

All Tomorrow's Parties have confirmed that their regular weekender events are to come to a close at the end of the year with two final 'End Of An Era' events - including Television playing "Marquee Moon" in full.

The Breeders have announced UK dates to coincide with the 20th anniversary of their 1993 album, Last Splash. The Breeders line up that recorded Last Splash - Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson - have already announced American dates, as well as a UK show at Deerhunter's 2013 ATP Festival in June. They've now added three more UK shows. Meanwhile, to mark the 20th anniversary of Last Splash, the band's record label 4AD plan are releasing a Deluxe Anniversary Edition called LSXX in April. The dates are:

The lineup for this summer's Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona has been announced.

Pete Townshend, Robbie Robertson and Queen also featue

Thanks, once again, to all of you who submitted your Top Tens of 2010 to the blog at the end of the year. I’ve now applied the dark mathematics and come up with a Top 50 from them, which provides an interesting - healthy, to be honest - contrast to my own list. The winner was ahead of the pack by a mile, incidentally…

After last week’s kind of dutiful list, some better things on this one, I think. Headline news, I guess, is the arrival of the Avey Tare album, though I’m also very taken with the new single from Forest Swords, and of course the much-needed official reissue of Peter Walker’s debut.

First song to be released from ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ soundtrack

‘Where the Wild Things Are’ out later this year

Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O also working on the soundtrack

All Tomorrow’s Parties adds trip-hop star to bill