Friends – Manifest! [rating:3.5/5] Buy: Manifest! As is the way with the music industry, hot, trendy new bands are lauded for their cutting-edge freshness and hip new musical outlook. As soon as the debut album comes along, though, the knives are out for the hipster poseurs trying too hard to be cool and not focussing…
Album review submitted by Philip Lickley. Ladyhawke – Anxiety [rating:2.5/5] Buy: Anxiety Four years ago musician Pip Brown recorded an eponymous album under her stage name of Ladyhawke. With twelve tracks including ‘Magic’, ‘My Delerium’, ‘Paris is Burning’ and ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ it was an excellent, fun album with some great stand-out tunes that took…
Download Festival 2012 preview – 8-10 June Now in its 10th year, the UK’s premier hard rock festival is going from strength to strength – thanks to an always solid line-up and a mostly safe and friendly atmosphere. As they are in 10-year celebration mode, this years festival has one of the strongest line-ups in…
Top 10 gigs in June Summer is almost here, which means festival season will soon be upon us – so there’s plenty of good live music going on as bands hone their shows before hitting the festivals. Here’s my pick of the best gigs to go to in June: The Charlatans – Friday 1st June…
The xx have today announced their second album will be released on 10 September. The follow-up to their break out 2009 debut album will be called Coexist, and was once again produced by the bands Jamie Smith in their London studio. The xx, who you can see above performing debut album track ‘Crystalised’, released a…
Bloc Party have revealed the name of their upcoming fourth album will be imaginatively titled Four. The band released the above trailer online today to announce the new album – the follow-up to 2008’s Intimacy. Four will be released on 20 August and was produced by Mars Volta producer Alex Newport. Along with the album…
Las Vegas band The Killers (above is their song from the recent Dark Shadows film soundtrack) have revealed their upcoming fourth studio album will be called Battle Born. The album, the follow-up to their 2008 release Day & Age, is named after their recording studio – with Battle Born also being the nickname of their…
The writer of a new film based on The Stone Roses has revealed the newly reformed Madchester legends ‘have at least three or four tracks recorded’. Speaking to the BBC, Chris Coghill (who also starred in the film 24 Hour Party People) said The Stone Roses (who you can see performing ‘I Am The Resurrection’…
Sheffield singer-songwriter Richard Hawley has today announced a 14-date UK tour to take place this autumn. The singer, who released his brilliant (I don’t give 5 stars out willy-nilly!) new album Standing At The Sky’s Edge (featuring the above single ‘Leave Your Body Behind You’) will begin the tour in Holmfirth on 16 September and wrap…
The iTunes Festival is all set to light up London’s Roundhouse again this September – with artists set to perform every night of the month. More than 60 artists will be taking to the stage to perform in front of competition winners. The first acts announced today include Usher, Norah Jones, One Direction and Jack…
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