Online music streaming service Spotify looks set to launch in the US, after posting record profits and label pay-outs last year. The music industry had been famously sceptical of the merits of Spotify, especially after it was reported in 2009 that 1 million plays of ‘Poker Face’ had netted Lady Gaga just £108! However, Spotify…
Beady Eye – Different Gear, Still Speeding After spending the best part of 20 years in the formidable creative shadow of his older brother, Beady Eye‘s debut album gives Liam Gallagher the chance to show us all exactly what the best front-man of his generation thinks a rock band should sound like. Unsurprisingly for Liam,…
Radiohead album review – The King Of Limbs Amid the excitement and controversy stirred up by its innovative ‘pay-what-you-like’ release, 2007’s In Rainbows didn’t get the recognition it deserved as perhaps Radiohead’s best album since OK Computer. By abandoning the record label model and distributing their music on their own terms, they caused such a…
To be perfectly honest from the off, the three words that are almost guaranteed to send a shiver down our spine are ‘anti’ ‘war’ ‘album’. Thoughts immediately turn to rock stars trying too hard to convey their liberal, empathetic tendencies by making heavy-handed, ego-centric music that, more often than not, patronises its subject matter and…
Radiohead surprised everyone today by unexpectedly announcing the release details of their new album, The King Of Limbs. Rumours have been circulating for a few months that the Oxford band had an albums worth of material ready – but the sudden announcement still took us by surprise. In the announcement on their website, Radiohead revealed…
Yep, the awards season is back upon us – the time of year when the entire entertainment industry likes to remind us all to start spending money again after the post-Christmas lull. After the film industry have had their turn this weekend with the Bafta’s, its music’s turn to hog the spotlight on 15 Feb…
The Strokes have announced their new single, ‘Under Cover Of Darkness‘, will be released tomorrow (9 Feb) as a free download. The single, the first to be taken from their forthcoming album Angles, will be available via a stream on the bands website for 48 hours – to download it head over to their website…
Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys have unveiled plans for two huge homecoming gigs this summer. The band will play in a custom-built tent at the Don Valley Bowl on 10 and 11 June. Tickets for the shows are due to go on sale this Friday (11 Feb), full details of which can be found at their website….
The Streets – ‘Computers And Blues’ The world is a very different place now than the one Mike Skinner eloquently depicted in his wildly inventive and distinctive 2002 debut, Original Pirate Material. Since then we’ve had recession, terrorist attacks, wars, a new Tory government and the inexorable rise of the internet and social networking. …
Arctic Monkeys front-man Alex Turner is set to release his first album under his own name next month. The collection of songs were recorded for the soundtrack to the film ‘Submarine’ – directed by long-time Arctic Monkeys collaborator Richard Ayoade. A publicist for Domino Records, the Arctic Monkeys record label, told HitFix that the new…
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