So far 2014 has been good to The Black Keys – a new album, well-received festival appearances all over the world and Dan Auerbach even managed to fit in production duties on Lana Del Rey’s new album. Never ones to slow down, the blues-rock duo are keen to keep the Turn Blue bandwagon rolling well…
La Roux’s highly anticipated second album Trouble In Paradise finally gets its release next week (preorder it below). Ahead of that, and to try and counter those pesky online album leaks, the synth-pop star has put generous snippets of the album up for streaming on her website. Looking at the snippet lengths I would guess…
Interpol have announced a full European tour in January and February next year, which includes three dates in the UK. The band will play London’s Roundhouse on 6 February, Manchester’s Albert Hall on 8 September and Dublin’s Olympia on 10 February. Here’s their European dates in full: JANUARY 23 – Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam 24…
The Horrors – Skying After their first album failed to live up to all that ‘most exciting new band’ hype, The Horrors kind of dropped off the radar as everyone looked elsewhere for trendy, big-haired, skinny jeaned rockers to provide the next new exciting sound. The ironic thing is, if everyone had stuck around…
Legendary Masdchester band Inspiral Carpets have announced a full headline tour of the UK this coming December. The band will play a total of 11 dates, starting off in Cardiff on 5 December and finishing on 21 December in Preston. There’s just one ‘homecoming’ show confirmed so far – at Manchester’s Ritz on 19 December…
Nas – Life Is Good [rating:4/5] Buy: Life Is Good Now hip-hop is not exactly my specialist subject, but I am quite a big fan of Mr Nasir Jones so I felt I had to give his new album the once over. I’m not a total hip-hop noob though, I know enough to get by…
Big Boi new solo album reviewed As one half of absurdly successful rap duo OutKast, Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton was the quiet man of hip-hop. Now with his long awaited debut solo album, his voice is loud and proud…
A new track by agitpop superstar MIA has been posted online. Reportedly coming from recording sessions with uber-producer William Orbit, ‘Baby’ is a sleek, laid-back and groove-based track which puts MIA’s distinctive vocals very much at the forefront. Listen to it below and let me know what you think: ‘Baby’ follows ‘Bad Girls’ as the…
It may only be mid-July, but 2014 has already been a stellar year for Bombay Bicycle Club. Their fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow hit number one in the album chart on its release in February, and they’re currently in the midst of a very busy summer festival schedule. Now the North London band…
Despite the rain and oceans of unspeakable effluence, despite the contentious inclusion of a “real” Metal band and the scandalous accusations suggesting the presence of a Country & Western ventriloquism act (directed at a real life Dolly) and, despite the rather telling lack of lobster and Prosecco to be found among the more up scale…
