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Listen: August new music playlist

With a couple of New Music Roundup’s and plenty of new single streams hitting the web, August has been another great month for new music. I’ve crammed the pick of the new music featured on All-Noise this month into the below playlist, so kick back and enjoy all the best new tunes we’ve been listening […]

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Album stream: Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’

Unsurprisingly, seeing as the album leaked earlier today, Arcade Fire’s Reflektor is now available to stream online in full. The Canadian band have just made the album available to stream via their official YouTube channel in the form of a full-length lyric video that weirdly features Brazilian dancers – apparently the footage is from a […]

Reading and Leeds Festival preview

The Reading and Leeds weekenders have traditionally been the UK’s premier rock festivals.  With the number of summer music festivals increasing recently – and more and more attracting big-name headliners – the rock angle of Reading and Leeds has been accentuated in recent times in order to hang on to its image as the biggest […]

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The best albums of the 2000’s – according to Reddit

Yesterday a Redditor by the name of dirkdiggin asked his/her fellow Redditors to name their top 10 albums of the 2000’s. Today all of the entries have been collated and a definitive list of what r/music subscribers think are the best albums of the 2000’s has been published. There’s no major surprises in the list, with Radiohead, The White […]

Arcade Fire to release new album in 2013

Canadian band Arcade Fire have announced today that they will be releasing a new album next year. Speaking on their Twitter news feed, they said: BREAKING! New Arcade Fire album coming next year, Mercury Records has confirmed. — Arcade Fire tube (@ArcadeFireTube) July 13, 2012 The album will be the follow up to 2010’s critically […]

This weeks single releases – 12/07/2010

Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait It’s tricky third album time for the Canadian rockers, and there is a lot riding on the forthcoming ‘The Suburbs’.    After the initial critical and commercial success of second album ‘Neon Bible’, it has suffered a recent retrospective downgrading from ‘modern classic’ to ‘decent effort’.  Now’s the time, […]

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Album review: Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’

Arcade Fire – Reflektor {rating} Download: Reflektor Alarm bells began to ring as soon as it was revealed that Arcade Fire’s fourth album, their follow-up to 2010’s massively successful The Suburbs, was to be that most pretentious of all rock band pretentions: a double album. As more details began to emerge – namely that the […]

April playlist

Stream Playlist – all the best new music from April 2014

April was a pretty busy month in music – just a quick read through the music news will tell you that. Kasabian announced their new album, Liam Gallagher sent everyone into a mini-meltdown about a possible Oasis reunion, Glastonbury announced the first raft of acts for this years festival and there was also the small […]