30/05/2006 Indie Larrikin Love
Promisingly liberal Londoners release single and tour

30/05/2006 Alternative Yeah Yeah Yeahs
You made them flags! Now make them a video! Yeah Yeah Yeahs want YOU. Again. Do they pay an hourly rate?

26/05/2006 Heavy Def Leppard
80s rock relics release covers album. Go on, have a look...

24/05/2006 Alternative Broken Social Scene
Overflowing and numerically-notable Canadian indie heroes announce tour

24/05/2006 Heavy Lordi
Eurovision Song Contest winner added to Download bill

18/05/2006 Alternative Sunshine Underground
Promising young groovers tour and release single

15/05/2006 Electronica Thom Yorke
Funny-eyed stubly rock superstar releases electro album

15/05/2006 Electronica Clor
Refreshing the parts other bands couldn't reach turns out to be too much

12/05/2006 Indie Muse
Still space cadets, only much more massive. Muse return!

10/05/2006 Festivals Download
Heavyweight announcements for the Snickers Bowl stage

09/05/2006 Alternative Diesel-U-Music
The wrong trousers? Not likely. These cuts of denim could make you a star!

09/05/2006 Indie Serena Maneesh
Napalm shoegazers from Norway tour and release stuff

09/05/2006 Alternative The Bees
Grisly retro Isle Of Wight rockers plot return

03/05/2006 Indie Official University Tour
O.U.T spells 'OUT'. UK e-label PROTEST prove you CAN get 'out for nowt'. News of how your band can join in the nationwide uni tour with a bevvy of UK talent. Christmas time is here again...

03/05/2006 Indie Archie Bronson Outfit
Something funny happened on the way to the best little whorehouse in Nashville. Screen references, new singles and tour dates from the Archies.

30/04/2006 Festivals Latitude
*UPDATED* New festival becomes a little less mysterious - details here

28/04/2006 Festivals Reading And Leeds
The line-up for indie's summer blowout grows

27/04/2006 Indie Hard-Fi
Patron saints of Slough become stars of DVD

25/04/2006 Indie Kula Shaker
Well, umm, they're back. (Oh no they're not!). They bloody are.

24/04/2006 Alternative The National
Dramatically melancholic New York Ohians on Beggars videocast

20/04/2006 Alternative Dinosaur Jr
Antique grunge forefathers announce UK dates

20/04/2006 Alternative Brian Jonestown Massacre
US alt-rockers of infamous renown tour UK in May

19/04/2006 Alternative Don T Look Back
New gigs added to backward gazing festival season

19/04/2006 Indie Deus
Everyone's favourite Belgians return

19/04/2006 Festivals Bestival
More more more! How do you like these? Scissor Sisters latest addition

18/04/2006 Festivals V Festival
More names added to annoyingly top line-up

18/04/2006 Festivals Green Man Festival
Celebrated folkey dokey festival announces 2006 line-up

17/04/2006 Electronica Test Icicles
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, f**k off. A fond farewell to the Sound of Icicle Music. News of Final dates.

06/04/2006 Indie Mystery Jets
Kooky kids (and, of course, dad) issue re-release and tour

06/04/2006 Alternative You Say Party! We Say Die!
More Canadians! Canada says "ace"! We say "aye"!