My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week! Arctic Monkeys – ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ With its Fantasia-inspired video, ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ from the band’s upcoming fifth album, is both familiar and fresh sounding in equal measure. Clearly from the Sheffield band through its long, lumbering lyrical passages, but…
After unveiling new track ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ at a festival in the US last month, Arctic Monkeys have released the proper studio version – just in time to build up anticipation for their Glastonbury headline slot next Friday. Check out the louche, groovy ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ below: As well as ‘Do I Wanna…
Arctic Monkeys debuted another new track at a festival over the weekend. Following on from their performance of ‘Do I Wanna Know‘ at a US festival last month, they debuted ‘Mad Sounds’ at two festival appearances in Scandinavia – the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden on Friday and then again at the NorthSide festival in Denmark…
If recent revelations about YouTube taking down music videos are true, then you better watch this one quick! Arctic Monkeys’ label Domino Records is alleged to be one of the independent labels that are refusing to sign YouTube’s new licensing deal – so there could soon be a big Arctic Monkeys shaped hole on the…
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…
