Download Festival kicks off this Friday (14 June) at Donington Park, and if you’re currently getting your camping kit ready you might want to know what the East Midlands weather has in store for you. If there’s one word to describe the weather forecast over this weekend then it’s ‘inclement’. Those arriving at the site…
Festival season gets well and truly underway this weekend, and for those heading off to the Isle Of Wight festival over the next two days will want to know what the weather’s going to do. Early indications are that the weather will do… not a lot, really. It looks like it will be mainly dry…
Influential synth-pop duo Goldfrapp have today revealed their sixth album will be released on 9 September and is called Tales Of Us (artwork above). The album follows their previous effort Head First in 2010, and was recorded over two years at the duos own studio. No full songs have been released as yet, but the press…
This is sponsored guest post written on behalf of Lucozade Energy. AlunaGeorge have come a long way since Reid and Francis first met back in 2009. Since then, they have firmly staked their claim as being one of the UK’s most respectable electronic music duos to break ground as of recent years. With the release…
Apple has joined the ranks of music streaming providers with the unveiling of their new service iTunes Radio. The service was announced today at their WWDC 2013 conference, and is aimed squarely at challenging existing streaming giants Spotify and Pandora, as well as Google’s recently announced All Access streaming platform. Apple’s secret weapon is the…
Kings Of Leon have announced their new album will be called Mechanical Bull and is due for release on 24 September. The new album will be the bands sixth, and follows 2010’s Come Around Sundown. Interesting fact: the album name follows the bands tradition of choosing five syllable titles. That’s probably not very interesting, is…
What is SOCA? In a world where so much music is focused on faux-angst and aggression, it’s always a pleasure to discover a genre where the only important thing is supplying great tunes and having a good time! SOCA offers both, mixing the classic rhythmic styles of the Caribbean with stunning pop melodies to create…
White Lies have today announced the release of their third album. Called BIG TV, the album is the follow-up to the trio’s 2011 Ritual and was recorded earlier this year in Brussels. BIG TV is scheduled for release on 12 August via Fiction Records, and will be preceded by the single ‘There Goes Our Love…
After pushing back the release date of their highly-anticipated debut album two times, AlunaGeorge have finally officially announced that Body Music will be out on 29 July. The news came along with the above album artwork, and the below tracklist: 01 Outlines 02 You Know You Like It 03 Attracting Flies 04 Your Drums, Your…
Palma Violets – 180 {rating} Buy: 180 Bands who get labelled as ‘great new hopes’ rarely fare well when it comes to debut albums. Usually the pressures of living up to all the ‘potential’ they’ve been lumbered with takes it’s toll and results in them sinking without trace. In Palma Violets’ case though, they’ve always…
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