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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 […]
YouTube has been the catalyst for the biggest shift in the way we consume music. No longer are we satisfied with the sterile, nicely packaged singles and albums our favourite pop stars hand down to us – we want to see them up close and personal outside of their PR bubble. To that end we […]
If you’ve been thinking recently that 2013 has been a bit underwhelming so far in terms of big new albums, then September might just put it right. Autumn is generally a good time for new albums, as bands who opted to not release new LPs before the festivals now gear up for a big release […]
If this is the calibre of songs that didn’t make the cut for AM, then Arctic Monkeys’ new album should be a bit awesome. ‘Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You’ is the B-side for their equally saucily-titled new single ‘Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?’, and it’s a slinky, low […]
Uber-cool Brooklyn duo MS MR covered Arctic Monkeys’ new track ‘Do I Wanna Know?‘ on Radio 1’s Live Lounge Late last night. If you missed it, which I’m assuming most of you did, then you can watch the video of it below: MS MR were on the show promoting their excellent debut album Secondhand Rapture, […]