Less than six months after the release of their second album Wish To Scream, Camden band Tribes have announced they have split up. It all looked so good for Tribes, who released their debut album Baby in 2012 to promising reviews – earning the NME Award for Best New Band in that year and being…
If you didn’t know already, Muse are getting ready to release a live DVD on 2 December called ‘Live At Rome Olympic Stadium’. The film will be available on DVD and Blu-ray and follows their show in Rome this summer. It will also be screened tomorrow night (7 November) at 100 specially selected theatres and…
North London band Bombay Bicycle Club have announced they will release their new album in February. The new album will be the bands fourth LP in five years, following 2008’s I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, 2010’s Flaws and 2011’s A Different Kind Of Fix. A title for the new album hasn’t…
James Blake’s Overgrown has won this years Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. In the days running up to tonight’s announcement the bookies favourite for the prize traded hands several times – first Disclosure were tipped for the win, before Laura Mvula and then a late surge for the Arctic Monkeys. But at no…
As reported earlier this month Broken Bells (producer Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer) are reuniting to release their second album After The Disco – and have just premiered part one of a short film featuring music taken from the album. The short film, titled ‘Part One: Angel and the Fool’, stars House Of…
Hip-hop/RnB superstar Drake has announced he will be playing eight UK dates next March, with fellow smooth and soulful RnB star The Weeknd providing support. In what is sure to be one of the hottest tickets of early 2014, the tour kicks off in Manchester on 11 March and culminates with two shows at London’s…
Arctic Monkeys paid tribute to the late and great Lou Reed last night during their show at Liverpool’s Echo Arena – playing his signature solo track ‘Walk On The Wild Side’, taken from his 1972 solo album Transformer. Former Velvet Underground front-man Reed passed away over the weekend and has been the subject of tributes…
Two more Arcade Fire UK gigs have been confirmed today. Following the revelations over the weekend that they will be playing Blackpool and Glasgow under their ‘The Reflektors’ pseudonym, Live Nation have revealed that the band have two dates scheduled for London’s Roundhouse on 11 and 12 November. Arcade Fire will be supporting their brilliant…
LA quartet Warpaint will release their second album on 20 January 2014 – their follow-up to 2010’s well-received debut The Fool. The self-titled debut album will be released on Rough Trade and was recorded in The Joshua Tree with the help of famed producers Flood and Nigel Godrich. If that wasn’t enough, long-time Aphex Twin…
Scottish post-rock veterans Mogwai have today announced they will release their new album Rave Tapes on 21 January 2014. The album, the follow-up to 2011’s brilliant Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, was self-produced with the help of long-time collaborator Paul Savage and will be released in the UK on Sub-Pop. Along with the…
