Early bird tickets for this years Isle Of Wight Festival are now available to buy, and organisers are running a special competition for some fans to get tickets for the same price as they were when the festival began in 1970! Early bird tickets for the full weekend are priced at £170, but competition winners…
Elbow have finally decided on a name for their new album – which will now definitely be called The Take Off And Landing Of Everything. The band originally suggested the new album, which will be their sixth, would be titled Carry Her, Carry Me, but have now changed their minds. In a recent interview with…
You’ve probably heard the rumours by now about US funk-pop oddball legend Prince being on the verge of announcing a huge UK tour for 2014. If not you can read the full story over at The Mirror, the jist of it being they reached out to Prince’s people who confirmed (in capital letters for emphasis)…
First things first: Happy New Year! Now that’s out the way, let’s get stuck into the serious business of looking forward to what 2014 has in store for us all. After a pretty impressive 2013 for big albums – Bowie, My Bloody Valentine, Daft Punk, Jay Z, Kanye, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Beyonce to name…
Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno has curated a cool party playlist for tonight’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. 2013 was a pretty quiet year for Serge and his Kasabian bandmates – but with a new album rumoured and a huge homecoming show in Leicester in June, 2014 is already shaping up to be a mega year for…
Psych-rock veterans The Flaming Lips have today released a cover version of The Beatles’ classic ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’, which you can stream in full below. The band are gearing up for a New Years Eve gig at Aspen’s ‘Belly Up’ in Colorado tonight, and have apparently promised to perform a few Beatles/John…
December is traditionally a quiet month, so I was surprised at the amount of quality new music showing up in my Soundcloud ‘Likes’ as I put this playlist together. From the return of Doves’ Jimi Goodwin to brand new Drake, Warpaint, Sam Smith and Broken Bells – December has provided us with some great new…
Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai are set to release their eighth studio album Rave Tapes on 21 January. As usual, though, the internet has beat them to the punch with the album leaking online a full month ahead of its official release. I can’t tell you exactly where to get it from though, I’ll leave that…
It just so happens that what is due to be the 20th edition of my New Music Round Up’s has coincided with the time of the year that everyone likes to publish retrospective lists. I thought it would therefore be a cool idea to go back through all the new music I’ve featured over 2013…
Grunge godfathers Pearl Jam returned this year with their excellent 10th studio album Lightning Bolt – their first long player in four years. Since releasing the album the band have been touring heavily in the US, but 2014 will see them take Lightning Bolt global – first with a tour of Australia and New Zealand…
