The Arctic Monkeys are about to embark on a nationwide arena tour. I wasn’t that impressed by their performance at Reading but I think they’d be better in an arena setting, especially after they revealed how they’ve been getting inspiration to the NME:I’d never been to a gig in an arena. But recently, knowing we’ve [...]
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There’ll be a more professional review of this Röyksopp gig for Sonic Dice (alongside some words about support act James Yuill), but I’ll write some words about it here too. It’s worth saying that this gig was pretty phenomenal. When I was looking down at the crowd from my seating position, which was the side [...]
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To say that Undisclosed Desires by Muse isn’t my favourite song from The Resistance would be understating things. I think it’s a poor rip-off of Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence and the lyrics sung by Matt Bellamy make me shudder in horror. Unsurprisingly, it’s being released as a single. Even more unsurprisingly, it’s not got [...]
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Dreamy shoegazers Asobi Seksu are set to release a new album of acoustic takes on songs from their back catalogue. Acoustic At Olympic Studios gets released on the 16th November and is one of the last albums ever to be recorded at the London recording studio before it was closed. Vocalist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist [...]
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It was a refreshing October evening in Guildford as I made my way to the Boileroom for a gig headlined by Kill It Kid (which I reviewed for Sonic Dice). There two pretty interesting support artists. One of them was the part-Scottish, part-Chicago Sparrow & The Workshop, whom I might write about at a future [...]
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It was inevitable that after the success of their just-finished UK arena tour that we’d get this kind of announcement but that doesn’t mean it’s any less exciting. Green Day will be playing two stadium gigs next year in June. The two dates will be at Wembley Stadium in London on the 19th June and [...]
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Vampire Weekend are set to return to the UK in February next year for a tour. The band will release their, arguably already insanely hyped, second album Control on the 11th January and these dates will support that album. This run of dates includes some of the band’s biggest headlining shows in the UK so [...]
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Los Campesinos! have announced full details of their UK tour next year, following the earlier announcement in September that they would be playing Koko in London. The indie pop band, who are recovering from a bout of swine flu on tour if recent Twitter updates are to be believed, will be touring to release their [...]
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Drummer Chad Smith has revealed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are finally starting work on a new album, their first since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. The drummer was speaking to Clash Magazine and elaborated on what stage the band are at and when the new effort might be released:We’re gonna write for a while, it [...]
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What is Google Music?Google Music is the new music service launched by Google, the most recognised and popular search engine on the Internet.How will it work?It’s very simple really. When people have searched for music in the past, some of the links you get are towards official sites, MySpace pages, YouTube videos, and Wikipedia entries. [...]
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Ghostly International is set to release a new dance compilation through its affiliate label, Moodgadget Records. Moodgadget: The Nocturnal Suite is a 2CD set that features a range of new and upcoming electro artists that is already out to buy as a digital album but will be available as a physical product on the 10th [...]
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Frightened Rabbit are ridiculously busy at the moment. So busy that it amazes me that they have a second album well on its way to completion. That seems to be the case as, to time with the release of Swim Until You Can’t See Land on the 16th November, a taster of what to expect, [...]
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Well, this is what all the fuss has been building towards. After all the YouTube previews, surprise summer festival shows, and with a proper UK tour on the horizon, the Them Crooked Vultures album is set to hit the shelves on the 16th November. In the meantime, the band have made a new song publicly [...]
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Questions were being asked last night about whether or not Morrissey was in good enough shape to carry on touring, after a year that has seen various illnesses keep him down, and whether he’d deliver a full show at the Royal Albert Hall last night. Those who were there probably needn’t have worried. Reports suggest [...]
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It feels like an age since Elbow finally stopped touring for The Seldom Seen Kid. Their most recent and career-defining album, and also the one that put them in the mainstream, was accompanied by a tour that lasted a whole year and a half. Whilst the band is now winding down, they’ve also revisited their [...]
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The Prodigy’s return to the big league has pretty much been sealed today with the news that the reinvigorated dance band will play a show at the Milton Keynes Bowl on the 24th July 2010, the biggest headlining date ever. It will also be an all-day event with various support bands. It’s just a shame [...]
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Remember the Spiderman musical that is going to be soundtracked by Bono and The Edge from U2? Remember when the whole world reacted with ‘WTF?’ Well it got delayed once before and the big news is that it has once again been delayed. The hold up is being blamed on constant technical and production issues [...]
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I’m not really into metal music that much. I don’t despise the genre (for reasons I’ll come to in a moment) but it’s just never really grabbed me and I don’t proclaim myself to be an expert that much. There are some exceptions though. Opeth’s last album, Watershed, was one of the more rewarding albums [...]
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It’s only a few weeks until Patrick Wolf plays what is arguably the biggest show of his career at the London Palladium. Plans beyond that are pretty extensive. His second part of the ‘Battle’ set, The Conqueror, will be released in 2010 and is nearly finished. A couple of weeks ago he played a gig [...]
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It’s sad that press releases get me excited but when you read, in bold and big type font, ‘THEM CROOKED VULTURES, SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOVEMBER 16′, you can’t help but feel excited. Yes, the long-awaited debut album of the Grohl/Homme/Jones supergroup is out in just three and a half weeks. They’ve also announced a [...]
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