Frankie and the Heartstrings
Frankie & the Heartstrings: The Days Run Away – review
Frankie and the Heartstrings' second album has some featureless moments, but when Frankie Francis's personality shines through, it works, writes Caroline Sullivan
The Northerner
Brighter times ahead for live music in Sunderland?Wearside music promoter Dan Carson previews Independent 2 and talks to owner Paul Smiles and lead promoter Ben Wall
The Northerner
What lies behind the success of Futureheads, Field Music and the rest of the Wearside Sound?A lot of thought and planning, that's what. Allan Glen explains the clout behind Sunderland's progress towards becoming music's new Liverpool or Manchester
Music blog
What are your favourite Pulp lyrics?Musicians and poets pick their favourite lines from Pulp songs
Music blog
My Chemical Romance bring the theatrics to Reading festival 2011It got off to a damp start, but the enthusiasm of Pulled Apart By Horses and Metronomy got the crowd in the mood for MCR's sensational but silly headline slot
Deer Shed festival – review
Who will make the Mercury prize shortlist?
Frankie & the Heartstrings: Hunger – review
Frankie & the Heartstrings: Hunger – review
Music blog
@guardianmusic followers get a Glastonbury festival treatFrankie and the Heartstrings: 'Music needs a bit o' spite'
Frankie & the Heartstrings
First sight
First sight: Frankie & the HeartstringsThey are the Andrew Weatherall-championed sound of young Sunderland: a quintet who only played their first gig last Christmas
New band of the week
Frankie & the Heartstrings (No 632)Paul Lester: The missing link between angular indie-folk and bootboy stomp-pop, these Sunderland lads' satirical songs pack an emotional punch
