My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Arcade Fire feat. David Bowie – ‘Reflektor’ Arcade Fire’s first cut from the album of the same name is a weird affair with many varied elements, thumping bass lines, French and an understated appearance by Mr Bowie himself. Very much like a […]
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Listen: Drenge cover Arcade Fire’s ‘Ready To Start’
Hot new grunge-rock duo Drenge have joined the current Arcade Fire hysteria by covering the Canadian bands The Suburbs highlight ‘Ready To Start’. The Loveless brothers performed the song on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show last night, and have just uploaded it to YouTube as a canny advert for their upcoming UK tour. Listen to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greatest Glastonbury Sets – 2014
Despite the rain and oceans of unspeakable effluence, despite the contentious inclusion of a “real” Metal band and the scandalous accusations suggesting the presence of a Country & Western ventriloquism act (directed at a real life Dolly) and, despite the rather telling lack of lobster and Prosecco to be found among the more up scale […]
Arcade Fire tickets for Hyde Park British Summer Time gig go on sale today – buying guide
*** Tickets go on sale today at 9am – use our buying guide below to make sure you get yours! [box type=”info”] >>> Buy Arcade Fire – Hyde Park tickets from Ticketmaster here[/box] Even if it was just Arcade Fire playing Hyde Park on 3 July demand for tickets would be huge. But throw in Jake […]