My Bloody Valentine main-man Kevin Shields has only just realised that the annual music industry back-slapping event known as the Mercury Music Prize is actually a little bit corporate. In an interview with the Guardian, Shields complained about the prizes criteria which excluded My Bloody Valentine’s latest album mbv from being nominated. The Mercury Prize…
The shortlist for this years Mercury Music Prize album of the year has just been announced, and it turns out my prediction from yesterday wasn’t too far out – I’m counting 7 out of 12 as a success anyway! Here’s the full shortlist: Arctic Monkeys – AM David Bowie – The Next Day Disclosure – Settle…
Whatever your thoughts on the annual music industry love-in that is the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Album of the Year, you can’t deny it creates a bit of a talking point in the music world. The shortlist for this years Mercury Prize is announced tomorrow evening (5.30pm, 10 September), so prepare for a few weeks of…
The media circus that is Arcade Fire’s publicity campaign for new album Reflektor has been leading us up to a 9pm reveal of the albums lead single and title track. But with the internet always doing its best to derail well-thought out music PR stunts, the Canadian band have decided enough is enough and have…
It’s Arcade Fire day people! 9/9 at 9pm is the time and date they’ve been promoting as the day they release new single ‘Reflektor’ – the lead single and title track from their very highly-anticipated new album. The single leaked over the weekend, but all the streaming links have now been taken down – so…
MGMT are gearing up for the release of their third album next week, and have today made it available to stream exclusively on Rdio. To access the stream, click the following link: http://www.rdio.com/artist/MGMT/album/MGMT/ – you’ll need to register or sign in with Facebook if you don’t have an account already. After a decidedly dodgy reception to their…
Arctic Monkeys – AM {rating} Buy: AM Throughout the history of rock music there’s certain famous moments that stand out as epochal – Dylan going electric, Hendrix at Woodstock, Oasis at Knebworth, Radiohead at Glastonbury – the list goes on, and is full of musical events that elevated artists to a level beyond the reach…
Poor old Arcade Fire. They’ve spent weeks plotting a guerilla marketing campaign to build up to the release of their brand new single, ‘Reflektor’, and now, just a day before their grand unveiling, the song has leaked online. The single is the first track to be taken from Arcade Fire’s upcoming album, also called ‘Reflektor’,…
Arcade Fire are going to do something on 9 September. We don’t know exactly what yet, but we do know it has something to do with the above ‘Reflektor’ graffiti that was painted around major cities last week. Along with the graffiti, that has also made its way onto various random social media postings, has…
Michael Eavis got the ball rolling early on the annual game of Guess Who’s Headlining Glastonbury, telling NME at last nights AIM Awards: Next year’s headliners are more or less in place. They’re three bands who haven’t played Glastonbury, and that’s important. There aren’t many bands left who haven’t played the festival, and before we…
