Tickets for next years Glastonbury Festival went on sale this morning and sold out in record time – 1 hour 27 mins to be precise – which means thoughts now naturally turn to what bands people will be seeing for their £210 entrance fee. 70’s rockers Fleetwood Mac have been one of the favourites to…
When he announced his new album Beautiful Rewind a few months ago Four Tet took a bit of a swipe at the music industry, saying: “no pre order, no youtube trailers, no itunes stream, no spotify, no amazon deal, no charts, no bit coin deal, no last minute rick rubin.” Other than share a couple…
With their new album now only a matter of weeks away, Arcade Fire have started to ramp up the buzz in their own idiosyncratic way. For a band who announced their album via graffiti and released a fully interactive video for lead single ‘Reflektor’, a simple appearance on Saturday Night Live obviously wasn’t enough. So…
Kasabian singer Tom Meighan will join former Oasis drummer Zak Starkey’s brilliantly named new band Penguinrising on stage for two live shows next month. Starkey plays guitar in the new band, with Javier Weyler on drums and the amazingly named Sshh Liguz on vocals. Tom will join the band onstage for their gig at London’s…
The world wouldn’t seem right if there wasn’t a swirl of drama surrounding MIA. First there were the revelations that her record label had rejected her new album Matangi and sent her back to the studio to add a bit more attitude to it. More recently the singer has become embroiled in a legal war…
We all know by now that Arcade Fire’s very highly anticipated new album is called Reflektor and will be a double album featuring 13 tracks. Today it appears that the French Amazon has let slip the full tracklisting of the album before the Canadian band had a chance to reveal it themselves – probably in…
The Killers have just announced they will release a greatest hits compilation on 11 November. Called Direct Hits, the album will feature material from the Las Vegas bands four studio albums as well as a couple of new songs. One of those new songs – ‘Shot At The Night’ – was produced by M83’s Anthony…
The rumour mill is once again aflutter with suggestions that Oasis are set for a glory-grabbing 2014 reunion. Despite Noel’s repeated comments to the contrary, there are rumours that he and brother Liam are ‘in talks’ to reform to mark the 20th anniversary of their seminal debut album Definitely Maybe. The latest round of rumour…
My Bloody Valentine main-man Kevin Shields has only just realised that the annual music industry back-slapping event known as the Mercury Music Prize is actually a little bit corporate. In an interview with the Guardian, Shields complained about the prizes criteria which excluded My Bloody Valentine’s latest album mbv from being nominated. The Mercury Prize…
The shortlist for this years Mercury Music Prize album of the year has just been announced, and it turns out my prediction from yesterday wasn’t too far out – I’m counting 7 out of 12 as a success anyway! Here’s the full shortlist: Arctic Monkeys – AM David Bowie – The Next Day Disclosure – Settle…
