Hot on the heels of their recent 11th album Rewind The Film, Manic Street Preachers are already prepping their 12th – the allegedly more experimental and ‘krautrock influenced’ Futurology. To mark the release of the album next year, the Welsh trio have announced a 10 date UK arena tour through March and April next year…
Forget Sinead O’Connor’s open letters, Lily Allen has delivered the best indictment on the music industry’s obsession with body image – via the trusty medium of sarcasm. With no build up or buzz campaign (not including that Christmas advert she’s on, of course), Allen released the gloriously acerbic ‘Hard Out Here’ today slamming female pop…
Beady Eye returned to the road with a bang last night in Dublin – covering Rolling Stones classic ‘Gimme Shelter’ during their show at the Olympia. The gig was Liam Gallagher & Co’s first date of a nine-date tour, and also heralded the return of Gem Archer who has recovered from fracturing his skull earlier…
Legendary dance act The Prodigy have a handful of UK dates left this year – including their awesome-sounding NYE gig at London’s O2 Arena, and tickets for them all go on sale tomorrow (Friday 7 November) at 9am. If you’re one of the many Prodigy fans out there looking to get your hands on tickets,…
I know what you’re thinking – we can’t seem to go a week without another high-profile recording artist weighing in on the whole Spotify/music streaming debate. But bear with me on this one, as Billy Bragg has unsurprisingly thrown a hefty dose of common sense into the argument. Rather than criticise Spotify and the rest…
You may remember I featured London-based psych-experimentalists Gentlemen’s ‘Children Of The Setting Sun’ in a recent New Music Roundup. Today they have made the EP that song is taken from available to stream online. The EP is called ‘Night Reels I’ and as well as ‘Children Of The Setting Sun’ it features other promisingly titled…
Less than six months after the release of their second album Wish To Scream, Camden band Tribes have announced they have split up. It all looked so good for Tribes, who released their debut album Baby in 2012 to promising reviews – earning the NME Award for Best New Band in that year and being…
Deltron 3030 – the futuristic hip-hop triumvirate of Del The Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automator and Kid Koala – have released a video for the Zack De La Rocha featuring ‘Melding Of The Minds’, one of the many highlights from their recent second album Event II. The video, directed by Justin Ian Lee, is an…
If you didn’t know already, Muse are getting ready to release a live DVD on 2 December called ‘Live At Rome Olympic Stadium’. The film will be available on DVD and Blu-ray and follows their show in Rome this summer. It will also be screened tomorrow night (7 November) at 100 specially selected theatres and…
North London band Bombay Bicycle Club have announced they will release their new album in February. The new album will be the bands fourth LP in five years, following 2008’s I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, 2010’s Flaws and 2011’s A Different Kind Of Fix. A title for the new album hasn’t…
