Last month Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon and sometime solo man Gruff Rhys announced his next project is an ambitious album, film, book and interactive app bundle called American Interior. As is the Welsh rocker’s way these days, American Interior is a concept album – this time about one of his ancestors who trekked across…
Deep down I think we all know today’s announcement wasn’t going to be news of a reunion, but for a brief period last night Oasis fans everywhere were holding their breath. Turns out the big announcement was about the expected 20th anniversary reissue of debut album Definitely Maybe, which is coming at us in May…
Rushed album releases are a bit in vogue these days, and official Man Of 2013 Pharrell Williams isn’t one to buck a trend. He only announced his new album G I R L last week at the BRITs, and is now streaming it ahead of its release next week. The album features contributions from Daft…
Thankfully last night was a school night, so there was no repeat of my drunken Jake Bugg antics and I could actually take in all of the audio-visual assault that is Beyonce’s Mrs Carter World Tour. First up, I managed to catch a bit of X Factor winner Sam Bailey’s support set – which was…
Oasis have just sent the internet (or certain corners of it at least) into meltdown with the news that they will be making a special announcement at 9am tomorrow (26 Feb). Here’s what they’ve just put up on Facebook: Post by Oasis. Naturally, all the speculation has been about the possibility of them finally announcing…
When I was at Glastonbury last year, the choice between Friday night headliners fell between Arctic Monkeys, Nile Rodgers & Chic and The Horrors. While the vast majority of the Glastonbury crowd opted to either witness Alex Turner’s emergence as a bona fide rock star on the Pyramid Stage, or Nile Rodgers’ canonization as the…
Southend goth-rockers The Horrors have been teasing us with snippets about their upcoming album for what feels like an eternity, but today they’ve hit us with some actual news. Their fourth album, the follow-up to majestic 2011 album Skying, will be called Luminous and released via XL on 5 May. Here’s the cool cover art:
Before arriving at the Royal Albert Hall I was already one bottle of wine into the night. The queue for the bar inside the venue was so big that me and the girlfriend made the sensible decision to each buy a bottle of wine, so as to avoid having to go back to the bar…
Aussie psych-rock trailblazers Tame Impala are supporting Arctic Monkeys at their sold-out Finsbury Park gigs on 23 and 24 May – and have announced a one-off warm up show at the Oxford O2 Arena on the 22 May.
Electronics giant Samsung have launched a new initiative to unearth new talent in the UK, with the help of celebrity mentors Paloma Faith, Idris Elba, Rankin and Gizzi Erskine. The ‘Launching People’ project aims to find ‘people with original ideas, people with energy, with get up and go, people who dare, who embrace what’s new,…
