American songstress Lana Del Rey covered Leicester rockers Kasabian today during her appearance in Radio 1’s Live Lounge. Del Rey, who released debut album Born To Die earlier this year, told Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton she was inspired to cover Kasabian after the rock band performed their version of her song ‘Video Games’ in…
New music roundup (no. 9) Fancy discovering some great new music? Course you do! This new music roundup features plenty of interesting and exciting new music for you to check out. If your new music itch still hasn’t been satisfied, you can find all my previous roundup’s in the New Music section. London Grammar –…
With the line-up for this years Worthy Farm festival getting everyone excited, and the fact that the festival sold out in a matter of hours in October – tomorrow’s ticket ‘resale’ is expected to be something of a mad scramble. If, like me, you’re going to be braving the rush then you can probably expect…
With the success of the Sam Smith-featuring ‘Latch’ and the Aluna Francis featuring ‘White Noise‘, Disclosure are on something of a streak at the minute. The Lawrence brothers announced earlier this week that the next single from their upcoming debut album Settle will be ‘You & Me’ and will feature Eliza Doolittle on vocals. They’ve…
So, it looks like that story I ran a few weeks ago about Damon Albarn calling time on Blur has come true – as the band today announced the release of a huge career spanning box-set to mark 21 years since the release of their debut album Leisure. Now it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll never…
With all the hoohah over the past week about Daft Punk’s new single ‘Get Lucky’, the actual issue of whether the song is any good or not has kind of been overlooked. But seeing as this is the first taste of Daft Punk’s first proper album in 8 years, ‘Get Lucky’ is a big deal…
‘Shut Up’ is the latest track from highly rated punks Savages to get the video treatment ahead of the release of their debut album Silence Yourself on 6 May. The video, directed by Giorgio Testi, begins with frontwoman Jehnny Beth reading the bands artistic mission statement (which is included on the above album artwork) before…
Cool new music for you today from Brighton-based trio Tall Ships, who describe themselves as an ‘experimental loop band’ – which I think means they like to mess about in the studio a lot. Here’s their new single ‘T=O’, which shows that studio time is not wasted: ‘T=0’ is the first single to be taken…
Metal legends Black Sabbath are gearing up to release a new album on 11 June. Called 13, the album was produced by fellow legend Rick Rubin and features Rage Against The Machine’s Brad Wilk on drumming duty. Today Black Sabbath have unveiled the first single from 13 called ‘God Is Dead?’, a sprawling 9 minute…
Production brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence, better known as Disclosure, have announced they will release a new EP on 30 April in the US through their new label Cherrytree/Interscope. The EP is called ‘The Singles’, and unsurprisingly it features previous singles ‘Latch’ and ‘White Noise‘ as well as new single ‘You & Me’. Also on…
