***UPDATE 7 March – Festival organisers have revealed there will be four headliners this year – click here to see the updated post *** ***UPDATE – Blink 182 have been announced as the first headliners of Reading and Leeds 2014 – see the early line-up here*** ***UPDATE NUMBER 2 – Arctic Monkeys have now been…
Rapper/singer Drake is still riding high on the back of his excellent 2013 album Nothing Was The Same, and has promised fans he plans to round off a great year with the free release of new material online. Drake last released raft of new songs on his blog in June, before the release of Nothing…
Audio-Technica ATH-CKX9iS SonicFuel {rating} I’ve come to the conclusion recently that it is time to start investing in higher quality audio products that last longer and sound better. First on the list is a good pair of in-ear headphones that I can use in a variety of settings – mostly at home on my laptop,…
With Christmas just round the corner the album release schedule is predictably dominated with lots of cash-in’s like reissues, box sets and anything else that might be loosely described as a ‘stocking filler’. I’ve rounded up the pick of the releases for December below, which includes a few albums and box sets as well as…
White Lies’ UK tour kicks off next week, and if you haven’t yet managed to get tickets you may be in luck! Cambridge Audio are giving away a pair of tickets to see White Lies at each of their 8 tour dates – to enter all you have to do is visit their site and…
Oh dear. Not three weeks ago a wrote a piece questioning whether the Download Festival had lost it’s edge, thanks to a tired-looking and unimaginative roster of headliners that includes Aerosmith, Linkin Park and Avenged Sevenfold alongside other over-the-hill acts like The Offspring. Now they’ve well and truly confirmed themselves as a pretty irrelevant festival…
Production trio Factory Floor have revealed ‘Turn It Up’ will be the next single taken from their self-titled debut album – released in September on DFA. If any track could be described as a typical Factory Floor it’s the album opener ‘Turn It Up’, with it’s house beats blending with post-punk influences. They’ve released a…
Leicester band Kasabian have today confirmed a huge homecoming show to coincide with the 10 year anniversary of their debut album. They will play in front of 35,000 fans at Leicester’s Victoria Park on 21 June. Tickets will cost £39.50 and go on sale this Friday (29 November) at 9am. Speaking to the Leicester Mercury,…
Matt Bellamy has been speaking about the next Muse album and reckons their seventh studio album won’t be released until at least ‘early 2015’. During an interview with Radio.com (which you can view below) Bellamy also hinted the band may opt for an unusual distribution method for the album, saying: How we release it is…
With their self-titled second album due out in January, Warpaint were in the BBC Maida Vale studio earlier in the week talking to Steve Lamacq and performing a few tracks. As well as the new albums lead track ‘Love Is To Die‘ the band played ‘Composure’ from their first album and debuted the brand new…
