Ticket went on sale for the UK leg of Linkin Park’s ‘The Hunting Party’ tour this morning at 9am. Originally the US nu-metallers were scheduled to play just two dates in the UK – Manchester’s Phones4U Arena on 22 November and London’s O2 Arena on 23 November. Due to popular demand the band have just…
Sheffield band Pulp have announced a one-off gig in their hometown this December. The Britpop legends took to Twitter to announce the show, saying: Pulp come home for Christmas. Sheffield Arena, Saturday 8 December 2012. Tissues optional. Presale starts now! tiny.cc/pulpsheffield — Pulp (@pulp2011) July 10, 2012 Don’t know what to make of the ’tissues…
Hip-hop/RnB man of the moment Frank Ocean stole a march on everyone today, rush-releasing his debut album proper Channel Orange a week early. Although it was due for release on 16 July, the impromptu release this morning did nothing to harm sales, with the album quickly rising to the top of the iTunes chart on…
The Killers – ‘Runaways’ Las Vegas rockers The Killers have released the first single from their upcoming fourth album Battle Born. Listen to ‘Runaways’ here: Fans of The Killers will be pleased with the reassuringly epic and bombastic nature of ‘Runaways’. Are you a fan, or is The Killers’ stubborn U2/Bruce Springsteen fascination starting to get…
After the original 16 dates of their upcoming UK arena tour sold out in minutes last week, Kasabian announced an extra date for fans who had been unable to get tickets the first time around. The extra gig will take place on Saturday 13 December at Sheffield’s Motorpoint Arena, and tickets for it go on…
The Vines are well and truly back with a bang. Last week the Aussie indie-rockers revealed that a brand new double album called Wicked Nature would be out in September, and debuted the very promising-sounding new track ‘Out The Loop’ within the album trailer. Today they’ve backed that up with a proper video for ‘Metal…
Tickets for Basement Jaxx’s recently announced UK tour this winter go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning (Friday 11 July). [box type=”info”]>>> Buy Basement Jaxx tickets from Ticketmaster here[/box] The tour is to support the dance duos upcoming new album Junto, which is their first album since 2009’s Zephyr. Although Basement Jaxx have been a…
Cher Lloyd – ‘Swagger Jagger’ This review was submitted by Philip Lickley, who runs the music blog .Wav Goodbye. If you were born in the mid-eighties like myself then, when choosing a television channel to watch, you would have ended up on ‘Cartoon Network’, a 24-hour channel dedicated to nothing but cartoons. Before the explosion…
Bloc Party are elder statesmen of the uber-trendy-electro-indie movement of the past decade, so I’ve got high hopes that new album Four, their first for ages following their recent hiatus, will be something of a grown-up, masters-of-their-art classic. I know it may be a bit unreasonable to expect brilliant masterpieces all the time. But it’s…
Interpol have today revealed ‘All The Rage Back Home’ as the first single proper from their upcoming new album El Pintor. The single got it’s first airing on Radio 1 this evening, which was quickly followed up with this moody video: ‘All The Way Back Home’ becomes the third song from El Pintor to be revealed…
