The Killers have announced that they will be tak­ing an indef­in­ite hiatus after their gig in Aus­tralia on the 21^st Feb­ru­ary. In a state­ment to the Asso­ci­ated Press, Dave Keun­ing said:

I’m not sure if people are aware of it but these are prob­ably our last shows for a while. We haven’t had a break in quite a while. It’s just been tour­ing and mak­ing records and on and on and on. It’s been like six years just kind of con­nec­ted together. It’s like people just expect us to do that non-stop till we die, but we just want a little bit of time off, just to be myself and do what I want to do for a little bit.

Hel­lo­Good­bye have uploaded two new songs to their web­site. They are cov­ers of The Prom­ise Ring’s “A Pic­ture Post­card” and Dion’s “Little Miss Blue”. You can get them here.

Billy Bragg has spoken out against the bonuses received by top dogs at the big banks in the UK that have been sup­por­ted by tax­pay­ers’ money. He says that as major share­hold­ers in the banks, we ought to take a stand against the bonuses, lim­it­ing them to only £25,000. He has threatened to with­hold his tax pay­ments unless the situ­ation is addressed. More in this Face­book group.

Rufio have uploaded a new song to their Myspace. It’s called “All That Lasts”.

Paramore’s album Brand New Eyes has offi­cially gone gold. Con­grat­u­la­tions to the band, and best of luck for 2010.

Cary Broth­ers has announced that he will be releas­ing his new album on the 6^th of April. It’s called “Under Control”.