Manchester indie rock stalwarts Elbow have announced details of a UK arena tour in March 2011. The nine-date tour will be in support of their new, as yet untitled album – the follow-up to 2008’s Mercury winning The Seldom Seen Kid. Elbow are currently in the studio recording the new album, but took time out…
MIA has announced on her Twitter page that she is collaborating with Kanye West on the rappers new album. The singer wrote: “in the studio with kanye, jus speakin in mark twain quotes” The album, called Dark Twisted Fantasy, is Kanye’s fifth studio album and boasts an impressive array of collaborators. As well as MIA,…
There are a lot of stories about this years Record Store Day swirling around – what with all of the surprise releases, live appearances and everything else. The one I’m most interested in though is the debut of Jack White’s new song – the title track from his upcoming new solo album Lazaretto. White aimed…
It looks like summer 2014 is going to see a Libertines reunion show, after Pete Doherty revealed in a candid interview with an Israeli newspaper that he has been offered money he can’t turn down to reunite the band for a gig in Hyde Park in July. Doherty is quoted as saying: I don’t know…
Legendary alt/grunge rock band Pixies released their first new album in over 20 years for Record Store Day this weekend. Well, I say ‘new album’ but Indie Cindy is actually a collection of the bands last few EPs. It’s still a big deal though, not just because it’s the Pixies but also because it’s very…
Death Grips – The Money Store [rating: 3.5/5] Buy The Money Store Sacramento trio Death Grips, MC Ride and production duo Andy Morin and Zach Hill, caused a bit of a stir in the hip-hop world last year with their debut album Exmilitary. So much of a stir, in fact, that Epic not only decided…
This week’s new single releases – 21 April (part 2) Part two of this week’s single reviews from Phil Lickley. See part one here. Lethal Bizzle feat. Wiley – ‘They Got It Wrong’ [rating:2.5/5] The latest single from Lethal Bizzle mixes up the chiptune-style popularised by Labrinth with a series of speedy rap verses including…
This week’s new single releases – 21 April (part 1) There’s so many notable new singles out this week that Phil Lickley has split his single reviews into two parts. Here’s part one: Agnetha Fältskog – ‘When You Really Loved Someone’ [rating:4/5] The former Abba singer releases this new solo effort. With swelling strings and…
Following on from Lana Del Rey hitting the headlines for covering ‘Goodbye Kiss’, Kasabian have unleashed the video for their new single ‘Man Of Simple Pleasures’ tonight. The single is the latest to be taken from Kasabian’s fourth album Velociraptor! and will be released on 7 May. As is usual these days there’s also a…
MGMT’s ‘experimental’ second album Congratulations kind of stopped their promising career in its tracks. Time will tell whether it was a wise choice for them to abandon the radio-friendly electro-pop of their debut for weirder psych-rock leanings, but new single ‘Alien Days’ is promising. Released today as part of Record Store Day, ‘Alien Days’ is…
