Mercury Prize winners Alt-J have today announced the follow-up to their all-conquering 2012 debut album An Awesome Wave. The new album is called This Is All Yours and will be released on 22 September via Infectious – it is also their first album since the departure of multi-instrumentalist founding member Gwil Sainsbury. That conceptual thing…
It’s been four long years since NYC band Interpol released their last album. With their recent inclusion on a bunch of festival line-ups this summer, it seemed likely that they were preparing to return to the fold with some new material. That has been confirmed today as the band have announced their fifth album will…
Leicester rock favourites Kasabian are reportedly set to be announced as a headliner for this years Glastonbury festival, as bookies William Hill have suspended betting on it. The rumours about Kasabian headlining go back to a while, but today is the first ‘concrete’ suggestion that they are definitely playing the Worthy Farm festival in June….
Deep down I think we all know today’s announcement wasn’t going to be news of a reunion, but for a brief period last night Oasis fans everywhere were holding their breath. Turns out the big announcement was about the expected 20th anniversary reissue of debut album Definitely Maybe, which is coming at us in May…
Oasis have just sent the internet (or certain corners of it at least) into meltdown with the news that they will be making a special announcement at 9am tomorrow (26 Feb). Here’s what they’ve just put up on Facebook: Post by Oasis. Naturally, all the speculation has been about the possibility of them finally announcing…
Southend goth-rockers The Horrors have been teasing us with snippets about their upcoming album for what feels like an eternity, but today they’ve hit us with some actual news. Their fourth album, the follow-up to majestic 2011 album Skying, will be called Luminous and released via XL on 5 May. Here’s the cool cover art:
Electronics giant Samsung have launched a new initiative to unearth new talent in the UK, with the help of celebrity mentors Paloma Faith, Idris Elba, Rankin and Gizzi Erskine. The ‘Launching People’ project aims to find ‘people with original ideas, people with energy, with get up and go, people who dare, who embrace what’s new,…
Hip hop trailblazers De La Soul have announced their entire back catalogue will be made available for fans to download for free from their website for a limited period this weekend. Band member Posdnuous told Rolling Stone today: It’s about allowing our fans who have been looking and trying to get a hold of our…
Apparently we’re still a long way away from a new Radiohead album, but the band have been busy in other areas – including making an app called PolyFauna, which is available to download here: iOS and Android The app is a bit of a strange beast, and doesn’t seem to do a lot – you just…
Everyone’s favourite rap album is turning 20 in 2014, and to celebrate the milestone it’s getting the ‘deluxe reissue’ treatment. In case you didn’t know, you’re favourite rap album is Nas’ epochal, seminal, classic 1994 debut album Illmatic. Well it should be anyway, according to those in the know on these things.
