Global Gathering have announced that they will be introducing a brand new band stage to this summer's festival. This stage will feature:

Does It Offend You Yeah?/ Sneaky Sound System/ The Whip/ Tommy Sparks/ FrankMusik/ Dan Black

For more information see www.globalgathering.co.uk

MySpace have announced their MySpace Bus will appear at this year’s Camden Crawl on Saturday 25th April.

Music fans will have the chance to get up close and personal with our very own cover star Little Boots (left) along with Kasabian, Frankmusik and VV Brown, among others.

The Camden Crawl is a mile-long stretch of 40 venues in London with 150 artists on April 24th and 25th.

For MySpace bus information, pictures and videos visit www.myspace.com/liveintheuk

The Boston five piece band, Passion Pit, are very busy men.

They are in our May issue (out now so go buy it), and now have re-scheduled their London show.

Following the cancellation of their May tour, Passion Pit have given us a new date.

They will be joining Rob Da Bank and Ebony Bones at the ‘Rob Da Bank and friends’ event at London’s Heaven on 1st July.

Tickets are on sale now: www.livenation.co.uk

Sónar music festival in Barcelona has announced more acts to join the already impressive line- up on 18th- 20th June.

The acts confirmed are Carl Craig/ Luomo/ James Murphy & Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem disco set)/ Jeff Mills/ Bomb Squad/ Ben Frost and Omar Souleyman.

2009 is continuing to confirm new artists joining both its daytime and nocturnal line-up. For more details check out www.sonar.es

The UK’s first student only boutique festival is back for 2009 with a monster line up and revamped sea side site.

Beach Break Live takes place from 16th – 19th June 2009 in North Cornwall.

This year's line-up includes Dizzee Rascal, Friendly Fires, Mystery Jets, Ladyhawke, Cuban Brothers, The Count and Sinden and tons more.

See www.beachbreaklive.com for more details, and the comments below for the line-up in full.

A mere seven weeks after its release, the Prodigy's stonking fifth studio album 'Invaders Must Die', has gone platinum.

Now we're not saying that this has anything whatsoever to do with them being on the cover of Mixmag's March issue, not at all...

Just send the champagne to the usual address lads, ok?

Defected In The House are celebrating ten years of Defected with a 'Pacha promotion'.

Now in their seventh season in Ibiza they have been upgraded to a new Saturday residency at the Ibiza club.

Excited label head Simon Dunmore says, “Our 10th anniversary, the biggest night of the week....at the world’s chicest club......hell yeah!”

Residents: Junior Jack and Kid Crème/ The Shapeshifters/ ATFC/ Copyright/ David Penn/Simon Dunmore/ Shovell on Percussion.

Guests: David Morales/ Frankie Knuckles/ Kenny Dope/ Bob Sinclar/ Dimitri from Paris

For more information see www.defected.com

FIB Heineken have just confirmed that 2ManyDJ’s and the Foals (left) will be playing at this year's Benicássim festival.

Also enjoying the Spanish sun will be Oasis/ Boys Noize/ Aeroplane/ Yuksek/ Peaches/ Laurent Garnier/ Kings of Leon/ Franz Ferdinand/ The Killers/ Lily Allen/ The Mystery Jets/ Elbow/ Maximo Park and The Horrors.

To book tickets visit www.seetickets.com or www.lastminute.com

Tiësto will be taking over Privilege club in Ibiza every Monday this summer starting June 8th until September 27th.

With over 8,000 people expected to attend, this exclusive 16 week run of all night dance parties is a unique production that will not be seen anywhere else.

Tickets are available from www.privalgeibiza.com/ www.clubtickets.com

For a complete schedule check out www.tiesto.com

Standon Calling have announced their line-up for the 3000 capacity festival in Hertfordshire on Friday 31st July.

Femi Kuti, Ladytron and Tony Christie headline an eclectic mix of live acts and DJs. Full line-up is in the comments below.

Tickets are £89.50 for a weekend camping ticket, and the theme for this year is 'Space' - which we're guessing means 'the final frontier' rather than 'the club in Ibiza.'

more at www.standon-calling.com

The Homecoming Festival, which was due to take place Saturday 2 May and Sunday 3 May in Irvine in Scotland, has been cancelled.

The organisers have released the following statement:

“It is with great regret that organisers of the Homecoming festival have announced that this year’s event has been cancelled.

This is due to new demands from the council requesting 50% of the profits and a £60,000 bond on the land.

All ticket holders will be entitled to a full refund, and arrangements are currently being made to organise new venues and dates for some of the artists that were scheduled to perform at Homecoming 09.

New details will be revealed on www.homecomingfestival.com as soon as possible.”

Mixmag cover star P Diddy has taken on another acting role.

The producer/ rapper will star alongside Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, and Rose Byrne.

The film, which is titled ‘Get Him to the Greek’, is about a record-company intern who is introduced to “a life of hookers and blow”.

Diddy will, of course, feature somewhere in the thick of that.

Simon Cowell can take a running jump as Hot Chip have now got their very own talent competition.

The band is hoping to find some new talent to perform alongside them at an exclusive event in London on 4th of June.

If you’re a DJ, in a band or a solo artist, enter and let Hot Chip decide whether you’ll be supporting them on the night.

http://www.viceland.com/creatingsense5/

After 20 years of causing a stir in London, club hero Mr. C has plans to move to Los Angeles in September.

What’s more, he’s heading to the movie industry and already has a few "projects" in the offing.

He says, “It’s time for a big change, I think I’ve done all I can in London and Europe.”

We’ll be sure to bring the popcorn!

Back in 2000, Craze narrowly beat DJ Klever to become the world DMC champion.

But there's been no hard feelings and the two have been solid mates ever since.

Their epic battles in this video proves to be a great taster of what you can expect on the Craze and Klever tour spreading Stateside this month.

www.myspace.com/crazearoni
www.myspace.com/kleverbeats

Tiësto will play in Victoria Park, this summer, 31st July.

Staging his own one day festival, Tiësto will be previewing brand new tracks from his upcoming album.

Set to be a landmark event with over 25,000 revellers, Calvin Harris will be opening the show with other ‘special guests’ yet to be announced.

Doors open 3pm – 11pm. Tickets available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Kitsune have sent us a video teaser for their next compilation - Kitsune 7. Enjoy.

2ManyDJs will be launching Radio Soulwax online this June.

David and Stephen Dewaele will be operating the radio station directly from their website, and will be broadcasting new mixes, themed hours and will feature special guests.

Tune into www.2manydjs.com in June to hear more.

Sven Vath and the Cocoon crew will be taking a quick time out from their season in Ibiza this summer to bring us Cocoon in the Park.

Taking place at Temple Newsam Park in Leeds on June 27th, this will be the first time we’ve seen Cocoon as an all day festival.

Sven Vath will be joined by Luciano, Steve Bug and Adam Shelton.

For tickets see www.residentadvisor.net.

As if we weren’t already excited enough about Timo Maas playing at our party tomorrow night at Matter, he’s only gone and given us an exclusive mix.

What’s more, we’ve decided if you can guess the full track listing, we’ll give you and a mate guest list for the event.

A four-day weekend, and a free Mixmag party. It can’t get much better than this.

click to play.

Think you know the tunes? Email bridget@mixmag.net by 4pm today.