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…
It’s Arcade Fire day people! 9/9 at 9pm is the time and date they’ve been promoting as the day they release new single ‘Reflektor’ – the lead single and title track from their very highly-anticipated new album. The single leaked over the weekend, but all the streaming links have now been taken down – so…
Arcade Fire are going to do something on 9 September. We don’t know exactly what yet, but we do know it has something to do with the above ‘Reflektor’ graffiti that was painted around major cities last week. Along with the graffiti, that has also made its way onto various random social media postings, has…
Michael Eavis got the ball rolling early on the annual game of Guess Who’s Headlining Glastonbury, telling NME at last nights AIM Awards: Next year’s headliners are more or less in place. They’re three bands who haven’t played Glastonbury, and that’s important. There aren’t many bands left who haven’t played the festival, and before we…
Glastonbury is officially here – and now that the gates have opened and revellers have begun to pitch their tents thoughts have inevitably turned to what surprises may be in store this year. Previously the likes of Radiohead, Pulp, Franz Ferdinand and The Last Shadow Puppets have put on surprise performances, so it’s only natural…
Foals are riding high at the minute on the back of their successful third album Holy Fire, and have collected all the cool remixes together and packaged them up as a remix album. The album features remixes of ‘Late Night‘, ‘My Number‘ and ‘Inhaler‘ by the likes of Tom Vek, Friendly Fires and Hot Chip….
With the release of ‘Alien Days‘ on Record Store Day and the performance of new songs ‘Mystery Disease’ and ‘Your Life Is A Lie’ at recent gigs, we all knew MGMT were getting ready to re-launch themselves with a follow-up to disappointing second album Congratulations. Today the duo have announced their third album will be…
Just as I predicted last week, Arctic Monkeys have announced details of their new album in the tun-up to their headline appearance on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Friday. The Sheffield band today revealed their fifth album will be called AM (are they copying Beady Eye!?) and is set for release on 9 September via Domino. AM…
It’s all about the ‘new rules’ for Jay-Z at the minute, who is trying to shake up the industry with new ways to promote and release an album. His new LP Magna Carta Holy Grail was announced last week along with the news that Samsung have already purchased a million copies to give away for…
