Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has announced today he will release a new solo album called Trick on 14 October. The new album, the follow-up to his 2010 solo effort The Boxer, is the first new music from the Bloc Party camp since their ‘Truth EP’ last year, and the first album since 2012’s Four….
Watch out Florence, Natasha Khan is back and means business! We’ve waited far too long for a new Bat For Lashes album, but happily it seems she has spent that time well – if lead single ‘Laura’ is anything to go by…. How good is that!? As well as the video for ‘Laura’, Bat For…
Barely a day goes by without me getting wind of yet another promising new band hailing from Bristol. Not so long ago Seasfire caught my attention, now it’s Empty Pools – who are preparing to release this pair of infectious tunes as a double A side single in September: Cool eh? Hard to believe Empty…
Influential DJ Mary Anne Hobbs has today announced that she has resigned from her role at BBC Radio 1. The former Breezeblock, Rock Show and Experimental host announced her decision in a statement on her Myspace page. In it, she says “My work for Radio1… has been exceptionally rewarding. These have been glory days not…
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With The Verve’s reunion a thing of the past and his appeal as a solo artist steadily decreasing, front-man Richard Ashcroft is back with a new band and what looks to be a new approach… Back in those heady Britpop days of the 90’s, Richard Ashcroft was hailed by many as the greatest front-man of…
Former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft has revealed that he expects to debut new material from his United Nations Of Sound project in the next couple of months. Talking to BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne, Ashcroft said: I’ve just been working for the past six, seven months in my cellar. I’m really excited, we should get…
Manic Street Preachers have just shared a new track from their forthcoming new album Rewind The Film. ‘Show Me The Wonder’ follows the release of the Richard Hawley-featuring title track, and is a bold and triumphant number featuring a bouncy brass-led rhythm. Check it out: Rewind The Film is out 16 September.
With all the ‘love-rat’ rumours going around about Liam at the minute, the release of the above screenshot by his PR people to promote the new Beady Eye video is viral gold! The video itself, for BE cut ‘Shine A Light’, is standard fair though – featuring some nuns and a medieval banquet before Liam…
Single Reviews – 22 July The pick of the coming weeks single releases from Philip Lickley… Ben Howard – ’Old Pine’ [rating:2/5] Buy: Old Pine Re-released from last year, this song has five-and-a-half minutes to spend in your company so doesn’t do anything quickly, with a lengthy, relaxing intro but when the lyrics start it…
