Here is a video of ‘February Snow’ from The Winchell Riots’ show at The Wheatsheaf on 12 April. Happy viewing.

This week’s MP3 download is ‘Forever’ by The Gullivers - if you click right here, you can download it and listen to it.

This week’s free MP3 is ‘Motorway To Moscow’ by local kraut-pop robots Space Heroes of the People - click here and it’s yours to treasure forever.

Worthless musical revisionist Mark Ronson is amongst the big names confirmed for this year’s Wakestock festival on 27-29 June at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock. Other stars confirmed for the summer bash are former Truck headliners The Futureheads, Pendulum, Lightspeed Champion, Ty, Groove Armada, The Streets, Hadouken and local heroes Supergrass and The Young Knives. Tickets for Wakestock, which celebrates the cult watersport of wakeboarding, cost £110 for weekend with camping, £85 for weekend without camping and £40 for a day ticket. For more information, have a look here.

Blood Red Shoes, the band formed by former Oedipus and Cat On Form man Steve Ansell, took part in a photo shoot in Oxford for Love Music Hate Racism, along with local stars Mr Shaodow, Bethany Weimers and Pete and Charlie from InLight.

Tuesday (1 April) sees the launch of new local music magazine Oxfordshire Music Scene - the magazine will be distributed throughout shops and venues across the county and will be available free. The team behind the magazine celebrate with a launch gig at the Jericho on 1 April, featuring first issue cover stars Little Fish, plus Not My Day, The Moneyshots and Baby Gravy.

As part of Foals’ recent takeover of the Guardian music website, former Truck co-organiser P-C Rae has written this piece on how to run a music festival.

Tickets for the eleventh Truck Festival go on sale this Wednesday (2 April). The tickets, priced at £60, will go on sale to local residents before they go on sale to the general public, and you can but them from any of the following outlets:

• OXFORD: The Scribbler, SS20, Music Box, Videosyncratic (Cowley & Summertown)
• ABINGDON: Mostly Books 
• DIDCOT: Baby John’s/Windjammer
• WALLINGFORD: Toby English Books
• WITNEY: Rapture
• READING: Guitar Works 
• HIGH WYCOMBE: Counter Culture
  

This year’s festival boasts a range of new stages and collaborations - the Barn Stage will be hosted by Vacuous Pop on the Saturday, with Lovvers and These New Puritans already booked, while Maps headline the Sonic Cathedral-curated Sunday Barn. Fresh Out The Box bring the dance tunes to the Barn on Saturday night, while local electro promoters Abort, Retry, Fail? host the Market Stage, with live music including Robots In Disguise. The Truck Stage has already confirmed acts including Noah and the Whale, Camera Obscura, The Television Personalities, Emmy The Great and Small Faces legend Ian Maclagan. Local acts to have been confirmed so far include Borderville, This Town Needs Guns, The Winchell Riots, Alphabet Backwards, Tristan and the Troubadours, Little Fish, Richard Walters, Morrison Steam Fayre and The Family Machine. For all the latest, stay tuned here and on the Truck website.

Cornmarket, Oxford, 22 March. Represented are Easy Tiger, Nine Stone Cowboy, Asher Dust, Jessie Grace, Not My Day, Shakey and the lips, Space Heroes of the People, The Evenings, Toy #1, Echoes Echoes, Hreda, Borderville, Shirley, Smilex, The Black Hats, Desert Storm and Tar the dog (a Shirley fan).

A new compilation featuring several Oxford artists has just been released by French label Rabeat’s Cage, run by former Alesiachair member Jeremy Moors. The album, Premiere Evasion, includes Jonquil, Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, Hreda and Cogwheel Dogs alongside several French artists, and is available for 12 euros here. The full tracklisting looks like this:

1. Jody Prewett - ‘An Ode to the Morning’
2. Eberg - ‘Antidote’
3. Jonquil - ‘Pattens’
4. Tam Rush - ‘Something to Wish’
5. Azad - ‘Je Ne Sais Pas Pour Qui Je Pleure’
6. Sarah W. Papsun - ‘Mouvement 2′
7. Cogwheel Dogs - ‘Cress’
8. Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element - ‘This Far and No Further’
9. Hreda - ‘Knowing How to Carry’
10. Neor - ‘Oneiros’