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,…
Yes, would you believe it, we’re already half way through the year!? To celebrate the passing of the first six months of 2013 here is part 1 of my top fifty singles of the year so far. They may not have been the biggest sellers or indeed troubled the top forty, but these are the…
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…
This week’s single releases – 31 March Phil Lickley takes us through another batch of new single releases. Alison Moyet – ‘When I Was Your Girl’ [rating:3.5/5] Buy: When I Was Your Girl The first release from Moyet’s eighth album is much poppier than I’d expect from the classically trained singer. Sounding very much like…
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Biffy Clyro – ‘Victory Over The Sun (EP)’ The title track of Biffy Clyro’s latest EP sees them at their gloomy best, at least for the first ninety seconds before it flicks up the pace to ‘The Captain’ levels. There is a…
Early bird tickets for this years Isle Of Wight Festival are now available to buy, and organisers are running a special competition for some fans to get tickets for the same price as they were when the festival began in 1970! Early bird tickets for the full weekend are priced at £170, but competition winners…
Over the past twelve months I have reviewed 752 singles and EPs on my weekly All-Noise single reviews column so hopefully that puts me in a good position to create a best of list for 2013, comprised not necessarily of songs that have sold the most or charted the best, but have been the most…
The festival announcements are coming thick and fast at the minute – it’s almost as if they time the announcement and tickets sales to coincide with the season of Christmas gift-buying! Today it’s the turn of the Isle Of Wight Festival, who have announced that Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro will headline the Friday night of…
Biffy Clyro have been announced as the second headliner for this years Reading and Leeds Festival, which takes place over the weekend of 23-25 August. Biffy Clyro were revealed tonight on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show, just one day after their sixth album Opposites became their first ever UK number one album. Also announced on…
Regular contributor Philip Lickley takes us through this weeks top single releases. If you would like to contribute to All-Noise, get in touch on submissions@all-noise.co.uk Single Reviews – 13 January 50 Cent feat. Eminem and Adam Levine – ‘My Life’ [rating:2.5/5] Buy: My Life [Explicit] Like many of his contributions to hits of this genre,…
