Basement have announced shows in London, Leeds and Manchester for October.

Creamfields Early Bird tickets for next year's event are on sale from 10am on August 29.

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It’s safe to say few surprises await the music lover these days, but sometimes an album comes along and totally knocks you off your feet. Wednesday 13 has created just such a record with ‘Undead Unplugged’, stripping back his sinister growl while guitarists Roman Surman and Jack Tankersley trade in their amps for ambient acoustics.

Weezer have released a short clip of Go Away, a duet with Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast.

Grimes has released a video for Go, her recent collaboration with Blood Diamonds that was initially intended for Rihanna.

Flight Facilities have revealed details of their debut album and dates for a world tour, including one of their biggest headline shows to date, at London's Brixton Electric.

Sting will play two nights at the Sage in Gateshead to help celebrate the venue's 10th anniversary.

American Authors will return to the UK for shows in Glasgow, Nottingham, London, Manchester and Leeds in November.

Look beyond the hype and the ‘guitar music’ hopes pinned to their chest and Royal Blood’s debut record is gloriously direct. It is a primal beast; a muscular exercise in riffs and kit smashing.

Meshuggah will play London's Roundhouse this December as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations.

Amber Run, FYFE, Kimberly Anne and Pixel Fix will feature on the second part of the biannual ‘New Faces’ Tour, taking place between November 3 and 10 in venues across the UK.

There are few nobler pursuits than attempting to write the perfect pop song. It has preoccupied bedroom romantics for decades, teams of crack songwriters and pop factories for almost as long. Now, though, we appear to be in the midst of the pop song’s industrial revolution. Chart bothering is now being conducted on a mechanised, all-conquering scale.

Everyone's got an opinion on Dragonforce. Whether you believe them to be musical mavericks or Guitar Hero sell-outs, the hyper-fast shredding machines recently put out their sixth album, 'Maximum Overload', and the title should tell you all you need to know. It’s packed with gloriously cheesy, over the top, zero-fucks-given power metal.

Tim 'Rawbiz' Williams, bassist in Californian thrash punk outfit Suicidal Tendencies, has died.

Love Inks have announced a string of European dates for later this year, including a show at the Shacklewell Arms in London on December 2.

The Xcerts have announced details of their third album and a UK headline tour for November.

Janet Devlin has unveiled an animated video for her new single, Creatures of the Night, which is due for release on September 22.

The Coronas have announced a handful of shows for later this year.

Don Broco and We Are The In Crowd have been confirmed for next year’s Kerrang! Tour.

2:54 have announced the release of their new album, 'The Other I', due on November 10 through Bella Union.