Blink 182 are the first headline act to be announced for next years Reading and Leeds Festival. The US pop-punk trio were confirmed tonight during a special announcement on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show. Other acts confirmed for the three-day festival are Jake Bugg, Disclosure, Metronomy. Speaking about their headline slot, Mark Hoppus of Blink…
November turned out to be a bumper month of new music, and I’ve collated the pick of the new releases into the below playlist for you to enjoy as we head into December. The November playlist includes new tracks from the likes of Temples and Broken Bells as well as a fair sprinkling of remixes…
Legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young releases his ‘Live At The Cellar Door’ album next week via Warner Bros, who have made the entire thing available to stream online today. The live album features tracks taken from Young’s solo shows at the Washington DC venue back in 1970 – where he played six gigs to promote his…
Scottish post-rock experimentalists look set to deliver one of the first big albums of 2014 when they release their eighth studio album Rave Tapes on 20 January. They’ve already impressed us with the well-paced ‘Remurdered’, and have today revealed more of what to expect from the album in the shape of the gloriously psychedelic ‘The…
There’s not many more big albums coming out in 2013, now that Christmas is officially upon us and the music industry starts to focus on stocking-filler releases, but one LP I’ve had my eye on for a while is TOY’s Join The Dots. Their self-titled debut album turned out to be one of my favourites…
Mysterious and hugely popular producer Burial rounded off 2012 with the blogosphere-igniting ‘Truant/Rough Sleeper’ EP, and is set to the same this year with an EP of new material released on 16 December. There’s been no word on the title of the EP, but we do know it will consist of three tracks and be…
If you hadn’t noticed, the BBC revealed their annual ‘Sound Of’ longlist today – which features the 15 new acts and artists that ‘music industry insiders’ believe are set to make waves next year. This years list features already reasonably established artists like BANKS (who is bound to win it) and Sam Smith as well…
Not content with hoovering up TV rights and giving Sky Sports a black eye, BT are now on the move in the music streaming market as well. They’ve confirmed a deal with Universal Music to launch a music streaming service via their TV boxsets, which will also feature a karaoke service (naturally!) Existing BT TV…
If you’re one of those people who can’t stand Christmas songs then you may want to look away now. Birmingham band Peace have released a cover version of WHAM!’s saccharine sweet Yuletide classic ‘Last Christmas’. The good news is that they haven’t gone for the full Christmas-jumper-and-log-fire approach, preferring a charming live performance video with…
Tickets for Arcade Fire’s massive show at Earls Court on Friday 6 June go on sale tomorrow (Friday 29 November). If the demand for tickets for their recent UK tour is anything to go by, tomorrow morning is going to see a big rush for tickets – so to give you the best chance possible…
