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A new non-profit festival called Chazzstock will take place for the first time this summer in Leicestershire and feature The Horrors and The Vaccines as headliners. Chazzstock will take place over the weekend of 9 and 10 of June and was set up to honour the late musician Charles Haddon, who passed away in 2010. […]
Single Releases – 17 March Depeche Mode, Alt-J, Bring Me The Horizon, The Vaccines and more feature in another weekly round up of new single releases from Phil Lickley… Alt-J – ‘Dissolve Me’ [rating:3/5] Buy: Dissolve Me The fifth single from their debut album, ‘Dissolve Me’ sounds much more life-affirming, a little bit happier and […]
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Back in the day, the age-old music press cycle of ‘build ’em up, knock ’em down’ gave young and naïve bands the chance to at least get to their second album before they were ruthlessly chucked on the scrap heap. Nowadays, this process is all […]
UPDATE – the line up has just been announced, click here. Tomorrow night V Festival organisers will release the full line up for this years festival. If you’re one of the many thousands who have already registered and are waiting on the line up before forking out for a ticket, I’m guessing you’re going to […]
Philip Lickley looks back on 2012 and picks his top 100 songs of the year…. Top 100 songs of 2012 – Part 1 As we reach for a glass of bubbly and celebrate the arrival of 2013, it’s time for me to take a look back at the last twelve months of music and give […]
Single Reviews – 18 November Philip Lickley’s weekly look at the hottest new singles. Check out what’s worth downloading and what’s worth ignoring this week… Alicia Keys – ’Girl On Fire’ [rating:2.5/5] Buy: Girl On Fire Alicia Keys returns with the lead single off her matchingly-titled fifth album. With some heavy drum beats and vocal […]
The Vaccines have today revealed a bit more information regarding their second album The Vaccines… Come Of Age – which is slated for release on 3 September. The artwork for the album, pictured above, features some youngsters looking like the band (see what they did there?) and the full tracklisting is confirmed as: ‘No Hope’ ‘I Always […]