The festival announcements are coming thick and fast at the minute – it’s almost as if they time the announcement and tickets sales to coincide with the season of Christmas gift-buying! Today it’s the turn of the Isle Of Wight Festival, who have announced that Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro will headline the Friday night of…
We’ve not heard from Manchester legends Doves (formerly Sub-Sub) since their 2009 album Kingdom Of Rust, and to be frank, music has been a lot poorer in their absence. If you’ve been missing Doves over the past few years then today we bring good news as front-man Jimi Goodwin has announced his first solo album…
Arcade Fire have today announced a huge gig at Dublin’s Marlay Park for 29 June. The date happens to fall on the Sunday of next years Glastonbury, which has inevitably led to speculation that Arcade Fire won’t be playing at Worthy Farm in 2014. I suppose there’s wriggle room for them to headline the Friday…
There’s lots of talk about the lack of great new bands on the scene these days, but when you look at the amount of quality debut albums released in 2013 it seems that new music is in great shape. So let’s stop being defeatist and revel in some of the great first albums released this…
‘Instant Crush’, the Julian Casablancas-featuring track from Daft Punk’s all-conquering Random Access Memories, is being released as a single soon, so naturally it’s been given a cool, idiosyncratic video befitting one of the biggest albums of 2013. The video was directed by Warren Fu and was inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’,…
If any band can stake a claim for having a stellar year, it’s Arctic Monkeys. They stole the show at Glastonbury and released an album that is featuring towards the top of most peoples ‘albums of the year’ lists. The Sheffield band are planning on rounding off the year with the release of AM track…
Ever since his first interview as a young and cocky guitarist back in the early 90’s, Noel Gallagher’s opinion has always been one worth noting. Whether you agree with him or not, you can’t accuse him of sitting on the fence. Today Rolling Stone have published a telephone interview with the former Oasis man, who…
The world of music streaming is about to get a lot more crowded soon with two potentially huge new services going up against the likes of Spotify and Pandora in early 2014. Beats Electronics have announced today that their Beats Music streaming service – formerly known as ‘Daisy‘ – will be launched in January 2014….
Bombay Bicycle Club revealed a brand new track last month called ‘Carry Me‘, which is taken from their forthcoming fourth album. Now they’ve given the album a name – So Long, See You Tomorrow – a release date – 3 February – and some cool looking cover art inspired by 19th Century photographer Eadweard Muybridge…
It’s fair to day sibling duo Drenge had something of a breakout year in 2013 – releasing their brilliant self-titled debut album and raising their profile further with a string of festival appearances and supporting the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Rolling Stones. That’s all in the past though, and the Loveless brothers are looking…
