Spoon (SPOON) embarks on their Summer North American tour this weekend with a sold-out show at Belly Up in Solana Beach CA, tix for other shows available at spoontheband.com (photo: Oliver Halfin)

The final leg of our UK/EU tour begins tomorrow! You can watch a few songs from last month’s Montreux Jazz Festival performance now on our YouTube page. youtube.com/@thenational

.Fontaines D.C.'s new album 'Romance', out today, is their most considered and intricately crafted work yet. Read NME's ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review nme.com/reviews/album/…

The Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd’s The Moon and the Melodies—one of my favorite albums of all time—is out today, newly remastered. I spoke with Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie about the making of the record for a text commissioned by 4AD tr.ee/HBHgqxvNOr

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'While there’s great stuff on this reissue’s extras, they only really reinforce the near perfection of Bubblegum itself, its coherence as a sonic and sentimental statement' Reissue Of The Week: Mark Lanegan’s Bubblegum buff.ly/4dU2lFZ BEGGARS ARKIVE

.The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned 💨 Repressed on 2LP gatefold vinyl. Available now: prodigy.x-l.co/aono-vinyl

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It is still Bandcamp Friday. bit.ly/3ZPgwsd

Congrats to label group artists @KimletGordon, Fontaines D.C., adrianne lenker & Charlotte Day Wilson on their GRAMMY nominations! #GRAMMYs

UK job opp: beggars.com/job/audience-m…

Our friends at MUSIC DECLARES EMERGENCY are celebrating their 5th bday this month and we ♥️ what they do! Via their NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET campaign, MDE have helped to put music at the heart of the climate convo, reaching over 550million music fans with the support of over 4000 artists.

STATES OF INDEPENDENCE: BEGGARS BANQUET is the 1st season of a new music pod, the label history in 13 wkly episodes. Features Martin Mills, Gary Numan, Billy Duffy, Tim Burgess, Brix Smith, Robert Forster, Lindy Morrison, David J, Daniel Ash + more! pod.link/1836129705