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John Peel‘s record collection to be made into online museum Legendary DJ’s collection to be part of Arts Council and BBC-backed interactive project Peel’s collection, which contains 25,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and many thousands of CDs, will become part of The Space, a new experimental digital service organised and funded by the Arts Council and the BBC…

Friends @ BV CMJ 2011 (more by Chris La Putt) Brooklyn’s Friends, who were recently named in the BBC’s Sound of 2012, have been chosen as support for part of Neon Indian‘s spring North American tour…

Friends (more by Amanda Hatfield) The BBC‘s list of 15 bands who will make up the “Sound of 2012” is below…

If you’re wondering what James Blake meant when he tweeted “24th August 2011 – James Blake & Bon Iver “Fall Creek Boys Choir,”” it looks like we’ll find out now…

London dubstep producer James Blake is a classically trained pianist who studied popular music at Goldsmiths University in London. He began his music career under the moniker Harmonimix, creating remixes of pop songs…

DOWNLOAD: Yuck – Rubber (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Yuck – Georgia (MP3) The BBC recently published its Sound of 2011 list, its annual picks of artists they think will be hot next year…

“If 2007’s was supposed to be Arcade Fire‘s difficult second album, it didn’t show. Top marks from a cavalcade of critical tomes saw the Montreal septet’s sequel to their breakthrough debut long-player of 2004, , received with just as much reverence as its predecessor…

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett stated in an interview with CBC News on 17 September 2008 that they will be doing another Gorillaz album. Hewlett says that from their work on Monkey, “we just learned more about what we do, musically and artistically…

DOWNLOAD: Belle & Sebastian – a short interview with Stevie and Chris (MP3) To mark the release of the BBC Sessions album on Monday 17th November (in the UK) and Tuesday 18th (USA) we have a short interview with Stevie and Chris, with their recollections of the various trips to Manchester and London…

Speaking to the BBC’s One Show about racial attitudes, Lydon said: “My grandchildren are Jamaican right.” “This is an absolute offence to them and me when I read stories like that, that are allowed to go to print absolutely unfounded and have the liberty to take liberties with a man like me and call me a racist when my entire life has proved exactly the opposite…