Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait It’s tricky third album time for the Canadian rockers, and there is a lot riding on the forthcoming ‘The Suburbs’. After the initial critical and commercial success of second album ‘Neon Bible’, it has suffered a recent retrospective downgrading from ‘modern classic’ to ‘decent effort’. Now’s the time,…
Psychedelic Australian rockers Tame Impala have finally announced details of their follow-up to 2010’s amazing debut album Innerspeaker – and released a new track to boot. Listen to ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ here: The new album will be released in October on Modular Recordings and be called Lonerism. As you can hear from ‘Apocalypse Dreams’, the album promises…
It’s been just a week since the newly-reformed Libertines announced two special gigs at London’s Alexandra Palace. Those tickets sold out literally in minutes, so an extra date was hastily arranged. Tickets for that then sold out even quicker, and since then there’s even been talk of a new album. It’s fair to say it’s…
Ticket went on sale for the UK leg of Linkin Park’s ‘The Hunting Party’ tour this morning at 9am. Originally the US nu-metallers were scheduled to play just two dates in the UK – Manchester’s Phones4U Arena on 22 November and London’s O2 Arena on 23 November. Due to popular demand the band have just…
Sheffield band Pulp have announced a one-off gig in their hometown this December. The Britpop legends took to Twitter to announce the show, saying: Pulp come home for Christmas. Sheffield Arena, Saturday 8 December 2012. Tissues optional. Presale starts now! tiny.cc/pulpsheffield — Pulp (@pulp2011) July 10, 2012 Don’t know what to make of the ’tissues…
Hip-hop/RnB man of the moment Frank Ocean stole a march on everyone today, rush-releasing his debut album proper Channel Orange a week early. Although it was due for release on 16 July, the impromptu release this morning did nothing to harm sales, with the album quickly rising to the top of the iTunes chart on…
The Killers – ‘Runaways’ Las Vegas rockers The Killers have released the first single from their upcoming fourth album Battle Born. Listen to ‘Runaways’ here: Fans of The Killers will be pleased with the reassuringly epic and bombastic nature of ‘Runaways’. Are you a fan, or is The Killers’ stubborn U2/Bruce Springsteen fascination starting to get…
After the original 16 dates of their upcoming UK arena tour sold out in minutes last week, Kasabian announced an extra date for fans who had been unable to get tickets the first time around. The extra gig will take place on Saturday 13 December at Sheffield’s Motorpoint Arena, and tickets for it go on…
The Vines are well and truly back with a bang. Last week the Aussie indie-rockers revealed that a brand new double album called Wicked Nature would be out in September, and debuted the very promising-sounding new track ‘Out The Loop’ within the album trailer. Today they’ve backed that up with a proper video for ‘Metal…
Tickets for Basement Jaxx’s recently announced UK tour this winter go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning (Friday 11 July). [box type=”info”]>>> Buy Basement Jaxx tickets from Ticketmaster here[/box] The tour is to support the dance duos upcoming new album Junto, which is their first album since 2009’s Zephyr. Although Basement Jaxx have been a…
