The xx have today announced their second album will be released on 10 September. The follow-up to their break out 2009 debut album will be called Coexist, and was once again produced by the bands Jamie Smith in their London studio. The xx, who you can see above performing debut album track ‘Crystalised’, released a…
Bloc Party have revealed the name of their upcoming fourth album will be imaginatively titled Four. The band released the above trailer online today to announce the new album – the follow-up to 2008’s Intimacy. Four will be released on 20 August and was produced by Mars Volta producer Alex Newport. Along with the album…
Las Vegas band The Killers (above is their song from the recent Dark Shadows film soundtrack) have revealed their upcoming fourth studio album will be called Battle Born. The album, the follow-up to their 2008 release Day & Age, is named after their recording studio – with Battle Born also being the nickname of their…
The writer of a new film based on The Stone Roses has revealed the newly reformed Madchester legends ‘have at least three or four tracks recorded’. Speaking to the BBC, Chris Coghill (who also starred in the film 24 Hour Party People) said The Stone Roses (who you can see performing ‘I Am The Resurrection’…
The iTunes Festival is all set to light up London’s Roundhouse again this September – with artists set to perform every night of the month. More than 60 artists will be taking to the stage to perform in front of competition winners. The first acts announced today include Usher, Norah Jones, One Direction and Jack…
Icelandic experimental band Sigur Ros have announced they will be streaming their new album, Valtari, worldwide at 7pm this Thursday (17 May) for one hour only. The band are calling the event ‘Valtari Hour’, and more information can be found at their official site: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/hour/ In what could be an inspired piece of social media marketing,…
The line-up for this years V Festival has been announced tonight, with The Stone Roses (making their 263rd festival appearance this year!) and The Killers set to headline the event. Other notable performers include Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Friendly Fires, Happy Mondays and Nicki Minaj. The festival takes place across two sites, Hylands Park…
The normally quiet and reserved Noel Gallagher has let rip at his fellow BRIT Awards performers on his Huffington Post blog, accusing many of them of miming during their performances on last weeks show. The former Oasis man, who you can see definitely not miming at the BRITs above, wrote: “And if I’m not very…
Bloc Party’s guitarist Russel Lissack has confirmed the bands first festival dates of 2012 as they gear up for their upcoming ‘comeback’ album after almost three years away. In message to their fans, Lissack announced the band will be playing in Sweden at the Peace & Love Festival in June and at Germany’s Melt Festival…
Wakefield band The Cribs have released details of their forthcoming fifth studio album. Due out on May 7, the album will be called In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull and will see the band return to a three-piece following the departure of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr last year. The band recorded the majority…
