Kasabian have announced a four-date UK tour as they prepare for a busy summer of festival appearances. The Leicester rockers, currently finishing off work on their as-yet-untitled new album with producer Dan The Automater, will play at Sheffield, Leeds, Wolverhampton and Manchester in early June. Following these shows Kasabian are set to headline both the…
The Arctic Monkeys have today announced the first single proper to be taken from their forthcoming album Suck It And See. Following the online release of ‘Brick By Brick’ earlier this month, ‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause Ive Moved Your Chair’ will be released as a digital download at midnight on Monday 11th April. The band…
Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has revealed the Devon threesome are planning to play their 2001 album Origin Of Symmetry in its entirety when they headline this summer’s Reading and Leeds festivals. The band had previously said they would be ‘retiring’ the ten year old album at the festivals – playing its songs for the last…
The Strokes’ bassist Nikolai Fraiture has revealed the New York five-some are set to return to the studio in April to begin work on the follow-up to their latest album, Angles – which was only released last week. Speaking to XFM, Fraiture said: “We were just talking about when we would get back together and…
The Kills have released a new single from their forthcoming album, Blood Pressures. The new track, called ‘DNA’, is available as a free download from their website thekills.tv now. Along with the free download, the duo have also announced details of a headline UK tour to promote the release of their new album, which is…
The Arctic Monkeys have finally announced the release details of their eagerly anticipated fourth studio album. In a short and sweet post on their website today, the Sheffield band announced the new album will be released on 6 June and is called Suck It and See. The follow-up to 2009’s Humbug was produced in LA…
Online music streaming service Spotify looks set to launch in the US, after posting record profits and label pay-outs last year. The music industry had been famously sceptical of the merits of Spotify, especially after it was reported in 2009 that 1 million plays of ‘Poker Face’ had netted Lady Gaga just £108! However, Spotify…
Beady Eye – Different Gear, Still Speeding After spending the best part of 20 years in the formidable creative shadow of his older brother, Beady Eye‘s debut album gives Liam Gallagher the chance to show us all exactly what the best front-man of his generation thinks a rock band should sound like. Unsurprisingly for Liam,…
Radiohead album review – The King Of Limbs Amid the excitement and controversy stirred up by its innovative ‘pay-what-you-like’ release, 2007’s In Rainbows didn’t get the recognition it deserved as perhaps Radiohead’s best album since OK Computer. By abandoning the record label model and distributing their music on their own terms, they caused such a…
To be perfectly honest from the off, the three words that are almost guaranteed to send a shiver down our spine are ‘anti’ ‘war’ ‘album’. Thoughts immediately turn to rock stars trying too hard to convey their liberal, empathetic tendencies by making heavy-handed, ego-centric music that, more often than not, patronises its subject matter and…
