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Kurt Vile has releasing a trailer previewing his new album, b'lieve i'm goin down.... The album is released on September 25 via Matador. The trailer has...

Plus some abstracted thoughts about the BRIT Awards

Great fifth album of next-level techno yelping

Belle And Sebastian have announced details of a new album, 'Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance'.

Vashti Bunyan is set to release a new album in October. 'Heartleap' will come out on October 6 via FatCat. It follows her 1970 debut 'Just Another Diamond Day' and 2005's comeback album 'Lookaftering'. The new album was produced by Bunyan herself and was primarily recorded in her own studio. The release of the album will be supported by a UK tour, which starts at Birmingham MAC on October 7, with two shows at London St Pancras Church (8-9), Farndale The Band Room (11) and Manchester St Philip's Church (12).

Mercury Rev will perform Deserter's Songs in full during their headline set at this year's Green Man Festival. The band will perform their 1998 album in full on August 16 at the festival, which takes place on Glanusk Estate, Black Mountains in the Welsh Brecon Beacons. Recently lso added to the bill are acts including Joanna Gruesome, The Field, Augustines, Ben UFO, Ought, The Pooh Sticks, Vancouver Sleep Clinic and H Hawkline, as well as DJ sets from Huw Stephens, Heavenly DJs and Simian Mobile Disco.

The LA maverick invokes Anglophile folk on first new album in six years...

The Black Keys are set to headline the The Heineken Open'er Festival 2014. The duo are the first band to be announced for the yearly event, which takes place in Gdynia, Poland. Next year's festival will take place from July 2-5, 2014. Tickets are already on sale at Opener.pl/en and more artists will be announced over the coming months. The Black Keys will be headlining the opening day of the festival, July 2.

Pavement frontman and solo artist Malkmus is releasing a new album, Wig Out At Jagbags, with his band, The Jicks, on January 6, 2014. Here, though, is a classic archive feature from our September 2011 issue (Take 172), in which the guitarist and songwriter answers questions from fans and celebrity admirers including Graham Coxon, Nigel Godrich, Avey Tare, Stewart Lee and Scrabble enthusiast Giles Brandreth. Prepare for confessions about ripping off The Fall, horse-racing and a pubic-hair-eating contest… Interview: John Lewis ___________________