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Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See After riding the massive hype wave of their first two albums all the way to the arenas, the Arctic Monkeys took a bit of a detour with third album Humbug – swapping the sing-along choruses and crowd pleasing riffs for an altogether denser and less accessible affair. Typically […]
Arctic Monkeys have today revealed the promo video for ‘One For The Road’ – the latest single to be taken from their AM album. Shot in black and white, the video sees the members of the band drive tractors on the way to a cool looking field-based gig. There’s nothing much more to it than […]
As a warm up to their appearance at the Sasquatch music festival in the US this weekend, Arctic Monkeys played their first gig in over a year in California last night – and debuted a brand new track called ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ in the process. There’s no word yet on whether ‘Do I Wanna […]
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So far there has been 21 winners of the Mercury Prize, or Mercury Music Prize as it was once called. It’s now officially called the Barclaycard Music Prize for sponsorship reasons, but we’ll stick with Mercury Prize from here on in, I think. Since it began all the way back in 1992 the Mercury Prize […]
The anticipation for Arctic Monkeys new album Suck It And See is steadily growing – and with singles like this being dripped out of the Monkeys camp it would seem the Sheffield bands fourth album could well live up to all the hype. Built on a solid guitar riff that has Josh Homme’s fingerprints all […]
The lineup for this years Glastonbury festival has just been revealed – with The Rolling Stones confirmed as Pyramid Stage headliners along with Arctic Monkeys and Mumford & Sons. Typically, there’s loads of very cool bands and artists on the bill. Some notable inclusions include Foals, Tame Impala, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Portishead, […]
UPDATE – 27 March – Don’t worry about these rumours, the ACTUAL lineup has just been announced, see it in full here: Glastonbury lineup Glastonbury 2013 rumours As always, Glastonbury is leaving us all on tenterhooks regarding this years lineup. While all the other ‘major’ festivals have been tripping over each other to get their […]
This fourth effort from Sheffield’s indie darlings was somewhat overlooked this year, despite it being right up there as one of their most consistent and interesting albums to date. Perhaps it’s because they’ve been around so long and delivered great albums so consistently that a new, great Arctic Monkeys album has now just become an […]
All the talk from Alex Turner about Arctic Monkeys’ new album AM was concerned with how it’s their ‘first studio album’, in terms of actually producing their sound rather than just recording themselves playing live. While that is all evident in the finished album, it’s still the warmly crafted song-writing that shines through – which […]