Elbow have finally decided on a name for their new album – which will now definitely be called The Take Off And Landing Of Everything. The band originally suggested the new album, which will be their sixth, would be titled Carry Her, Carry Me, but have now changed their minds. In a recent interview with…
Image credit: Tom Calton Alternative rock outfit We Are Fiction have announced their split after six years of performing as a band. The Peterborough based quintet took to social media to announce their split which came despite receiving positive reviews for their debut album One for Sorrow, performing at the Reading & Leeds festivals and…
You’ve probably heard the rumours by now about US funk-pop oddball legend Prince being on the verge of announcing a huge UK tour for 2014. If not you can read the full story over at The Mirror, the jist of it being they reached out to Prince’s people who confirmed (in capital letters for emphasis)…
Doctor and Poet John Cooper Clarke has spoken about the great job the Arctic Monkeys did with their homage to his poem ‘I Wanna Be Yours’ which features on the bands latest album AM. Talking in a video on the Arctic Monkeys’ Youtube Channel, the poet spoke about his pride in seeing his “semi comedic…
Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai are set to release their eighth studio album Rave Tapes on 21 January. As usual, though, the internet has beat them to the punch with the album leaking online a full month ahead of its official release. I can’t tell you exactly where to get it from though, I’ll leave that…
Finally – after lots of rumours and ‘are they aren’t they‘ speculation – Arcade Fire have confirmed they will be headlining Glastonbury 2014. The Canadian band, who released one of the albums of the year in Reflektor, confirmed their slot at Glastonbury by releasing their updated tour itinerary for 2014 – which has them down…
Beyonce fans have been on red alert since Columbia Records chairman Rob Stringer said earlier this week that “obviously, at some point Beyonce will put a record out, and when she does it will be monumental”. Now, everyone took that to mean Bey would be putting out the follow-up to 2011’s all-conquering 4 probably at…
Music blog aggregator The Hype Machine has just released its annual ‘Zeitgeist’ list of the top 50 artists and tracks of 2013. The Hype Machine has arranged both lists around the most blogged about, discussed and listened to artists and songs of the year – with Disclosure topping the artists list and CHVRCHES’ ‘The Mother…
Arctic Monkeys look like they’re planning on taking over the summer again in 2014. The Sheffield band seemed to dominate the music scene this year, thanks mainly to their ‘coming-of-age’ set at Glastonbury, and have today been confirmed as headliner for their third 2014 festival. As well as headlining next years T In The Park…
It’s no secret that Damon Albarn has been working on a solo album. He released details earlier this year about him and XL Records’ Richard Russell recording together, but details of the project have been kept under wraps. Today though Albarn released the below video proclaiming ‘DAMON ALBARN FIRST SOLO ALBUM COMING 2014’, which is…
