Oxjam Greenman Jam Man

Oxjam are holding a fundraising evening at the Cardiff Arts Institute on Wednesday 18th August 8pm onwards to coincide with this year's Green Man Festival. Live music comes from the Gentle Good and Hail! The Planes plus quiz, raffle ect. All proceeds to Oxjam.

Bright Light Bright Light single release

Bright Light Bright Light will be playing Cardiff Buffalo's 7th September in the lead up to the release of their forthcoming single 'Love Part ll'

Arcade Fire head for the suburbs

Arcade Fire, who have just reached number 1 in the UK album charts with their new album 'The Suburbs', have announced a UK tour including Cardiff Arena 9th December. Tickets go on sale Friday 13th August and look set for a certain sell out.

Perfume Genius announces UK tour

Perfume Genius aka Seattle native Mike Hadreas has announced live UK dates for October. His highly acclaimed debut album 'Learning' was released in July and he has been hotly tipped as one of the new emerging leftfield artists of 2010.

18 – Manchester, St Phillips Church

19 – London, Cecil Sharp House

21 – Bristol, The Cube

22 – Brighton, The Hope

23 – Cardiff, SWN Festival

Mogwai are coming

Scottish 'post rock' band Mogwai will be releasing a live labum "Special moves" 23rd August and will be playing Cardiff University 18th February 2011.

SWN 2010 launched

This year's SWN Festival was launched yesterday by Huw Stevens and John Rostron at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff. This year's festival takes place 21st - 23rd October and looks set to be the biggest and best so far with a number of changes:

* Roving wrist bands (£45) will cover city centre venues, day wrist bands are also available. Other gigs in venues such as the Globe will be ticketed separately.

* Welsh language event 'Dan Oed' for 14-18 year olds taking place at the Millennium Music Hall.

*The festival has secured funding from various sources such as PRS Music fondation.

Acts announced this week include The Swans, Al Lewis, new Rough Trade signing Joe Worricker, Paul Heaton and the nascent genius Perfume Genius.

Newsoundwales will be hosting a night at the festival. More details to follow in due course.

Bright Light Bright Light Start to Shine

Bright Light Bright Light have announced a new single 'Love Part ll coming out on Virgin offshoot Popjustice HiFi 13th September. The band will also be supporting Ellie Goulding on her tour this Autumn. Bright Light Bright Light recently played at the newsoundwales showcase at Chapter Arts Centre and Rod Thomas (the band's main writer and performer)was our artist of the year in 2008.