The latest wave of acts to play this year's Oxegen festival has been announced.

It's no Silent Alarm, but Bloc Party's rush-released Intimacy is at least the best BP album since Silent Alarm. Meaning it was better than A Weekend In The City. It's not an opinion I can get a lot of support for amongst the people I talk to because not a lot of the people I talk to still listen to them after Weekend. But don't go by my ears, ta...

Mogwai are a loud band. The Scottish noisemakers will probably make you forget about last year's middling The Hawk Is Howling-- and pretty much everything else, for that matter-- when they turn the knobs way past 11 on a U.S. tour starting in April. The Twilight Sad will open some dates. Until then, they're making their way through Europe and A...

Mogwai are a loud band. How loud, you ask? So loud that they recently encouraged fans to sign a petition protesting new laws limiting the volume of UK concerts. They're fighting for their right to absolutely ruin your hearing. Won't you join them?The Scottish noisemakers will probably make you forget about last year's middling The Hawk Is Howl...

-- Rap biopic alert! The former music writer Cheo Hodari Coker, who adapted the script for the Biggie biopic Notorious from his own surprisingly great Biggie book of the same title, has signed on to write a Run-DMC biopic. According to the Hollywood Reporter, he'll adapt Bill Adler's book Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC for the horri...