Walsh released the Time Is Nigh EP back in January, following up his Chuck Palahniuk-inspired project, Lullaby.

Tickets for next month's acoustic show are on sale now, priced €15. 

All across the country from June 28th, a Bell X1 sandwich board (see below) will appear at certain locations where folk can purchase the album. Doing so entitles them to a voucher to see the Celbridge lads perform an acoustic set at the venues listed. 

Chop Chop is released on June 28th, and the band perform a sold-out show at the National Concert Hall the next night. A pop-up shop will be at the venue's Music Box after the gig. 

Messrs. Geraghty, Phillips & Noonan also play Live at the Marquee in Cork on July 4th - a gig for which Le Galaxie have just been announced as support. And, from there, it's back to the Iveagh Gardens on July 13th. 

Those select and exclusive acoustic dates are as follows: 

Fri June 28th - Dublin - Tower Records in-store, 6pm

Mon July 1st - Wexford - The Sky & The Ground, 7pm

Fri July 5th - Cork - Debarras, Clonakilty, 1pm

Fri July 5th - Galway - Róisín Dubh, 7pm

Tues July 9th - Dundalk - Spirit Store, 1pm

Tues July 9th - Belfast - Oh Yeah, 7pm

Wed July 10th - Ballybofey - Balor Theatre, 1pm

Wed July 10th - Derry - Cool Discs, 7.30pm

Thurs July 11th - Kilkenny - Rollercoaster / The Set, 1pm

Thurs July 11th - Limerick- Dolan's, 7pm

Disaffected youths of the year 2000, rejoice! For you can once more shout the words to "Last Resort" like you really mean 'em, when they play the Abbey St venue on Friday December 6th. 

Support on the night is provided by Middle Class Rut and American Fangs, with tickets on sale this Friday (June 21st) at 9am costing €28. 

The 19-year old was speaking to The Daily Star at this past weekend's Isle Of Wight festival, where he batted away notions of inauthenticity about tracks like "Lightning Bolt" by saying, "I'm still very young, and I should soak up what I can learn from people with more experience."

All-but four tracks from debut album Jake Bugg feature a co-writing credit from the likes of Iain Archer, Matt Prime or former Longpig Crispin Hunt, but Bugg claims "I'm taking it on board, so I can step into writing on my own, eventually." 

Bugg previously hit out at the 'manufactured' pop of One Direction et al. 

Despite his current dependence on co-songwriter's, Bugg insists that his vision be borne out by the sessions. Case-in-point, recent Nashville sessions where he rejected pre-prepared material by seasoned veterans, claiming he told them, "'No mate, let's get our guitars out and see what happens together.' It was really disappointing."

Bugg plays Friday July 19th at Longitude. 

After previously writing an open letter urging the Russian government to free Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, Macca used his appearance at Bonnaroo this past weekend to once again support their cause. 

During his performance of "Back In The USSR", an image simply saying 'Free Pussy Riot' was flashed up on his big screen. 

Tolokonnikova and Alekhina are currently serving two-year sentences in Russia on "hooliganism" charges, following their performance of "Punk Prayer" at the Christ The Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. 

Alekhina recently ended an 11-day hunger strike in protest at her prison conditions, while two disguised members of the band appeared in New York earlier this month. 

The psych-rockers will round off their European tour at the Olympia Theatre on Saturday October 19th. Tickets are €23 and go on sale this Friday at 9am. 

MGMT have just put to bed their new album which, according to producer Dave Fridmann, is self-titled and will be released this August. 

Likely to feature on it, is Record Store Day release "Alien Days". 

Sounding like they've been hanging out with their good pal Richard Hawley, the track is a mellow affair and one which Alex Turner told the NorthSide crowd yesterday that it could afford them time to "keep warm by cuddling or something like that". 

Check out the fan-shot footage of "Mad Sounds". 

This isn't the first song t'Arctics have been trying out on their audiences this year. Last month, the Sheffield band debuted "Do I Wanna Know?" in California. It's a track they opened both Scandinavian appearances with this past weekend. 

Arctic Monkeys play Electric Picnic later in the summer, and new album is due this year. 

The Jared Leto-fronted trio will play the O2 on Monday November 25th. Tickets will cost €39.05 and go on sale this Friday (June 21st) at 9am. 

Support on the night will come from You Me At Six. 

30 Seconds To Mars released their latest album Love Lust Faith + Dreams just last month. 

The first song to be lifted from the now long-overdue Matangi will get its first airing on BBC Radio 1 this evening, but Ms. Arulpragasam has been kind enough to share wee bitíns of the single via Twitter and Vine (there's a Tom Waits cover album in that phrase ©)

'Pon a gold laptop with a green keyboard (want!) M.I.A. has let us in on the gold standard video and short snippets from "Bring The Noize". Have a butcher's.

The slow jamz king partook in one of the three Superjams at this past weekend's Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee, which was led by My Morning Jacket's Jim James and John Oates, of Hall & Oates. This comes just a couple of months after his guest spot with Phoenix at Coachella. 

Immediately after his headline spot, Kelly hot-footed it to the Superjam where he led the band in a rendition of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come". You can check out the fan-shot footage here. 

Also present were Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard, Sly & The Family Stone bassist Larry Howard and Billy Idol, who fronted a version of the T-Rex classic "Get It On". 

Perhaps feeling like they were missing out on the Superjam action, Young The Giant paid homage to R Kelly with their version of "Ignition". Their remix to it, if you will. Get on it. 

After fearing for too long we'd be left out of their spin around the globe to support ...Like Clockwork, Josh Homme's band of merry men have confirmed a date at the O2 on Sunday November 17th (via Gigwise). 

Tickets, starting at €39.05, go on sale next Friday (June 21st). 

The gig will be QOTSA's first here since they performed their debut album at the Olympia in May 2011. The November date will be their biggest ever Irish headline gig. 

Deal, who plays Vicar Street tonight with The Breeders, is the one who has taken the decision to once more sever ties with Messrs. Black, Santiago & Lovering. 

A statement on the band's Facebook page read as follows:

We are sad to say that Kim Deal has decided to leave the Pixies. We are very proud to have worked with her on and off over the last 25 years. Despite her decision to move on, we will always consider her a member of the Pixies, and her place will always be here for her. We wish her all the best. 

Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering

The Toronto trio will play The Button Factory on Friday November 22nd.

Austra are touring in support of their new album Olympia which is released in Ireland here today, and just so happens to be bloomin' marvellous. 

Tickets for the Button Factory date will set you back €17 and go on sale from Tuesday (June 18th) at 9am. 

Frightened Rabbit and The Minutes have today been added to the already pretty solid line-up for the Marlay Park festival. 

The former followed the release of UK Top Ten album Pedestrian Verse in March with the Backyard Skulls EP in late March.

The Minutes, meanwhile have recently shared some material from bands they've been helping to get off the ground in their own studio. Take a listen.

In response to the news that Death Cab's oeuvre is to get a synth-pop re-jigging on The Electronic Anthology Project of Death Cab For Cutie, a disgruntled fan took to Twitter to vent spleen at the lack of new material from the Washington group. 

But, alas, Gibbard was monitoring the @dcfc (not Derby County's) mentions, it would seem. 

THIS IS HAPPENING! Do not fear. RT @brianfulda: I wish @dcfc would just return to what they do best - writing songs together.

— Benjamin Gibbard (@Gibbstack) June 13, 2013

Gibbard has been looking back, of late, what with the Postal Service reunion, and Death Cab's forthcoming performances of Transatlanticism in Portland in August. 

But news of a new Death Cab album will come as good news to those - like the above Brian Fulda - who still feel bereft since 2011's Codes And Keys. 

"Bring The Noize" will get its first airing on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on Monday evening, with confirmation coming from both M.I.A. herself and the insufferable Kiwi. 

M.I.A. / BRING THE NOIZE

— M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) June 13, 2013

Just in...brand new @MIAuniverse on the show this Monday night @BBCR1 7 - 9pm

— Zane Lowe (@zanelowe) June 13, 2013

The track will be the first to be officially lifted from her long-promised Matangi LP, and according to Pitchfork, "Bring The Noize" originally appeared in last year's Matangi mix-tape.  

Nick Cave headlines the Body & Soul Stage on the Saturday night, taking to the stage with his Bad Seeds at 11pm, but will be followed by a late set from Fuck Buttons. Before all that will see performances from Kurt Vile & The Violators, Charles Bradley and Kid Karate. 

The Sunday will be headlined by Public Image Limited, preceded by Solange, The Congos and Willy Mason among others. The Sunday late set will be from Nicolas Jaar. 

James Murphy is the star attraction at the Midnight Circus, with the LCD Soundsystem man DJ-ing on the Friday night. You can check out the full line-up here. 

Following the likes of Fight Like Apes, The Walls and Carol Keogh's FundIt campaigns, the Dublin quartet have taken to Indiegogo in the hope of raising €7,000 to complete the follow up to 2009's Trees Dream In Algebra. 

Contribution points start at €5 and go up as far as €5,000, a sum that will earn you an executive producer credit on the new album, as well as an on-stage thank you and a rake of extras. €500 will earn you a host of goodies (t-shirts, artwork etc), but most amazingly, a game of bowling with the lads. 

Stump up €1,000 and Codes will come 'round to your house, cook you dinner, and perform acoustically. If you've anything to spare the lads, head to their Indiegogo site now and donate. 

As National Post reports, the Bloc Party guitarist was speaking at Toronto's Field Trip this past weekend, and said "Definitely after we finish the festivals in the summer we'll be taking some time off."

As regards how long that hiatus will be, that remains unclear, "At least six months, maybe a year maybe two years, it's hard to say."

If this break comes to pass, it will be the band's second - the band having come close to breaking up between 2009 and 2012's comeback album, Four. Band members extra-curicular activities may inform how long the next hiatus lasts, with Lissack adding, "Once we start taking time off people start doing their own thing. So once people start doing things then you'll start naturally extending how long we spend apart."

From reading his subsequent quotes on the atmosphere within the band, it appears to be some ways south of high-fives, champagne-on-cornflakes, S Club 7-esque good times, so it may be a while before we see Bloc Party again. 

What we will get, however, is an EP. Lissack all-but confirms May's news that there would be a release this summer, "I guess this is going to be more of a stand alone EP just representing what we're doing now rather than what we're going to be doing."

The Britpop legends, who haven't released an album since Think Tank back in 2003, but James told Bang Showbiz that he hopes a new album comes to pass. 

Originally, it was Damon Albarn who let slip on-stage that the band had entered the studio while in Hong Kong they would "try and record another record."

James confirms the news, saying "We had a few days off in Hong Kong and thought, 'What the hell, let's go to the studio'. It went very well. The opportunity came and we took it. Any chance to get together and make music is very welcome. It was absolutely brilliant. We were just jamming, but it was good. 

Blur play the grounds of IMMA in Kilmainham on Thursday August 1st. 

Speaking to Phantom's Richie McCormack, Jamie revealed that The XX have already begun writing material for their follow-up to Coexist. We also found out that work is continuing on his solo work, which may come in either album or EP form. 

You can also hear how their appearance on The Great Gatsby soundtrack came to pass, and what kind of stuff is finding its way into his DJ sets by listening to the interview in full. 

The legendary Minneapolis indie icons played their last gig in 1991, but the last year has seen an upturn in activity from the group. Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson recorded an EP for guitarist Slim Dunlap who had suffered a stroke. 

Stinson and Westerberg will front a yet-to-be-finalised Replacements line-up at three Riot Fest dates in Chicago, Denver and Toronto in September. Also confirmed for the travelling circus are Blink 182, Public Enemy, Iggy & The Stooges, The Stranglers and a geansaí-load more. 

And after that 22 year gap, it seems only appropriate that we bring you what now transpires to have been a comma, rather than a full-stop, to their career.

Self-Titled have gotten hold of The Replacements last gig at Chicago's Grant Park from 1991. 

Led by Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, the band garnered plenty of critical acclaim for their three fantastic albums - #1 Record, Radio City and Third/Sister Lovers - but oddly, never the sales that should accompany such plaudits. When the success Big Star deserved, and likely craved, eluded them they broke up in 1974.

Nothing Can Hurt Me is directed by Drew DiNicola and charts the rise, and sad fall of the Memphis group. As well as the above-mentioned Lips and REM, Cheap Trick, Robyn Hitchcock and Cameron Crowe all contribute to what looks like a stellar documentary. Due in July, you can check out the trailer here: 

The Ohio quartet have been busy buachaills since their coming-together in 2009. Releasing an album a year so far, they received glowing reviews of last year's Attack On Memory. And they'll follow that up with a new LP - Body Music - to be released later this year. 

Tickets for Cloud Nothings' August date are on sale now, priced €14. Still not sure about what to expect? Check out their full set from this year's Coachella festival. 

Dylan has announced a string of dates in Europe and the UK for October and November of this year. Beginning in Oslo on October 10th, and taking in most nations eligible to vote in the Eurovision, Dylan's tour will be particularly detailed once he hits the UK. 

His Bobness will play a trio of date each of Glasgow's Clyde Arena, Blackpool's Opera House, and London's Royal Albert Hall. And given his regular stopovers in Ireland on past tours, Irish dates are almost certainly to follow in the coming days and weeks. 

If you're unwilling to wait for any Irish dates, tickets for the UK shows go on sale this Friday (June 14th) at 9am. 

While we realise this is not strictly music news, we are always willing to give a leg-up to another member of the radio fraternity. In this case, North Norfolk Digital's most notorious presenter. 

The movie finds North Norfolk's premier digital station under siege by Partridge's colleague, Pat Farrell, played by none other than our own Colm "ah good jayzis" Meaney (whose Irish accent almost seems fake). The film is slated for release on August 7th. Check out the trailer. 

Speaking to The Guardian, Ralf Hutter said their recent Catalogue tour, which has seen them dedicate nights to specific albums, has been a full-stop of sorts for the Dusseldorf veterans. "Now this is done, one to eight....we can concentrate on number nine."

All well and good, except there's two albums from Kraftwerk's that our Ralf ain't counting - namely Kraftwerk and Kraftwerk 2, released in 1970 & 1972 respectively. 

Kraftwerk's last official album release came in 2003 with Tour de France Soundtracks, but as Hutter revealed to the New York Times recently, "We didn't fall asleep" and they're still putting in long hours at their fabled Kling Klang Studios. When pressed on a schedule for the proposed album's release, Hutter would only reply, "Soon". 

Kraftwerk will perform at Longitude, complete with stunning 3D visuals, on Sunday July 21st at Marlay Park. 

Speaking to John Caddell in an interview you can hear in full after midday on today's Finest Worksongs, Empire Of The Sun's Nick Littlemore revealed SOAK's (real name, Bridie Monds-Watson) "Sea Creatures" was a song that always brings him to tears. Littlemore also told John that he'd love to write a song with SOAK, if the opportunity arose. 

Empire Of The Sun will release their brand new album Ice On The Dune this Friday. An album for which they've admitted they "set the bar pretty high", you can stream it below.

For SOAK, a busy summer of festival appearanes awaits - including a spot at Electric Picnic. She also plays Dublin's Pepper Canister Church next Wednesday, June 19th. 

Kings of Leon and The Flaming Lips will be joined by legendary singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, and Idaho indie stalwarts Built To Spill will play Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Arena at a gig entitled Rock For Oklahoma on July 23rd. 

Twenty people were killed and €1.5billion worth of damaged caused when two-weeks worth of tornadoes ravaged the state. Speaking to Tulsa World, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said, "In our small way, we are trying to not just be here at the moment of immediate need, but to stay and help with the rebuilding. After all, this is our home and they are us and we are them."

Jared Followill of Kings Of Leon - who were raised in the Oklahoman town of Talihina - added, "We were all devastated by what happened there...we have family and friends that were affected by tornadoes...this is the least we could do."

All of the gig's proceeds will go to central Oklahoma community organizations and charities.

Tickets are €18.50 and go on sale this Friday (14th June) at 9am on Ticketmaster and all other usual outlets.