February event also features Kate Nash, The Maccabees and Zero 7

Dave Hyde will form 'Hyde And Beast' for solo-project

NAME: The Futureheads PROGRESS REPORT: Recording the followup to 2008's This Is Not The World in their studio in Sunderland, UK. After Field Music's David Brewis mentioned working with his friends and rehearsal roommates the Futureheads, it made sense to talk to them next. The bands have known each other since they began; Field Music's Peter Bre...

Bands and artists including Blur, The Futureheads, Pink Floyd and Billy Bragg have protested against the British National Party (BNP) using music to fund their party.

The likes of Mystery Jets, Lostprophets and The Futureheads are set to feature on a free album featuring covers of The Cure that will be given away with next week's issue of NME on February 25.