It looks like yesterday’s poster of The Reflektors playing Blackpool in November wasn’t a one-off, but part of a set of dates Arcade Fire are playing in the UK next month. A ‘treasure hunt’ has been sparked across the UK to find similar posters, and so far we’ve had confirmation that The Reflektors will be…
If you’ve been keeping up with Arcade Fire’s relentless publicity campaign for new album Reflektor, you’ll know that they have been playing a lot of gigs as The Reflektors. So far there’s been no official word on if and when they might be playing any UK dates, but it looks like an eagle-eyed Twitter user…
If you have a Daft Punk fanatic in the family and are struggling for Christmas present ideas for them, then struggle no more! The French electro duo have announced details of a very smart looking boxset of their recent fourth album Random Access Memories, which is crammed full of goodies and is set to hit…
YouTube, that giant video sharing website owned by Google, is reportedly working on a subscription service that may be ready before Christmas. The service is being designed with mobile use very much at the forefront – which basically means Google wants to use as much of the video and music content it has to drive…
Twitter’s #music app looks to be on the verge of shutdown just six months after it was released to much fanfare. Early reviews of the service were not very favourable, and it looks like Twitter #music has failed to capture the imagination of users – with Twitter chiefs now apparently looking to shut-down the service….
For a band as successful and important as Led Zep, it’s almost unthinkable that there is still some unheard material knocking about that hasn’t at least made its way on to bootlegs. But apparently Robert Plant has unearthed some unreleased tapes and wants to release them as soon as possible. The only stumbling block to…
Hotly-tipped Manchester band Embers will join the likes of Yuck and Swiss Lips in a new War Child event this autumn spanning four major UK cities. Teaming up with hotel chain Tune Hotels, children’s charity War Child is hosting gigs in London, Brigton, Manchester and Edinburgh as part of the ‘Tune Up’ Festival. It all…
Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn is back in Mali and recording a new album featuring local musicians and a host of international stars including producer Brian Eno, The Wire/Luther star and DJ Idris Elba, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Ghostpoet and Holy Other. The album is part of the Africa Express project Albarn…
London psychers (that’s my new word for ‘psych-rock band’, I’m hoping it catches on…) TOY have today announced they will release their second album on 9 December. Called Join The Dots, the album follows TOY’s self-titled debut which came out to critical acclaim just last year. Like their debut, Join The Dots was produced by…
The dream duo of Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton and James ‘The Shins’ Mercer aka Broken Bells have today announced they will release their second album in January 2013. The duo got together in 2010 and released a pretty brilliant self-titled album, but then went back to their many other projects – Danger Mouse has been…
