I swear the last few days have consisted of a similar pattern of some sort. During the day you’re tired of everyone mocking Kanye West with the same old joke and/or meme until the very end of the day when someone you least expect to make a joke about it actually makes a joke about [...]
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When bands write new songs, one of the more popular ways of doing it is writing on the road as they tour the world. Sometimes the writing stage is taken into soundchecks before gigs as bands jam out new sounds and new ideas that could be used on future albums. The band will even, on [...]
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The final headliners for the BBC Electric Proms have been confirmed. Robbie Williams has been confirmed for the 20th October and will mark his official comeback to the live arena, alongside a full band, string section, and a horn section under the musical direction of Trevor Horn. Dame Shirley Bassey will headline on the 24th [...]
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Let’s think about this for a minute, ok? Imagine you were making a kiddie-targeted version of the massively hit game Rock Band and you were in charge of picking a famous playable character. Who would you pick? Would Iggy Pop be one of the first people that enter your mind? Probably not, yet somehow MTV [...]
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It’s amazing (or maybe not) that a whole year and a bit can pass since the last time I see Massive Attack perform eight new songs and there is still no new LP. But here we are, on a warm-ish autumn evening at Brixton Academy where the Bristol collective are starting their UK tour with [...]
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Mick Jones and Nicky ‘Topper’ Headon, both members of seminal 70s punk band The Clash, have been in the studio together for the first time in almost thirty years to re-record one of their older songs for charity. The two members will record 1978 Clash song Jail Guitar Doors for Billy Bragg’s Jail Guitar Doors [...]
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The Smashing Pumpkins, with pretty much a brand new line up except for Billy Corgan, are set to release four ‘EPs’ containing eleven songs (correction: it sounds more like an album than an EP), which will fit together as a 44-track ‘album’ (correction: quadruple album) for free. Teargarden By Kaleidyscope (what is it today with [...]
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Last night The Flaming Lips appeared on hit US comedy show The Colbert Report for an interview and musical performance. Just before the band launched into new song Convinced Of The Hex (which you can see on the offical program site), the host Stephen Colbert dropped a bomb of the surprise variety by revealing that [...]
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As you may be aware, there is currently quite a debate going on about Lord Mandelson’s plans to boot file-sharers off the Internet after three strikes and cut them off from their Internet Service Provider (ISP). This has now provoked a fierce debate with musicians of many bands getting involved in the debate, including those [...]
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On UK radio there is a sports panel show called Fighting Talk with a round called Defend The Indefensible, which is pretty self-explanatory. If there was a music version of this program, you can be sure that one of these defences would be based around trying to convince the listener for Raditude, the upcoming Weezer [...]
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It’s been far too long since the last Five Songs article appeared on The Musical Chairs, so I thought that this week it would be best to bring it back. What’s more, with the release of the new Muse album this week, a theme to think of wasn’t too difficult – songs of resistance. These [...]
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Coldplay and Joe Satriani have been at loggerheads for a while after the latter accused the former of copyright infringement for the hit Coldplay song Viva La Vida. However, Billboard reports that both parties have reached a legal settlement over the matter and the guitarist’s lawsuit over copyright infringement has now been dismissed. Details of [...]
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Vampire Weekend are set to release their second album, Contra, next year on the 11th January. You may recognise the girl in the artwork (shown above) as she has been spotted on various music websites, firstly as just a picture with no link or text and secondly as a link to ithinkuracontra.com where a bigger [...]
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Julian Casablancas is the latest Strokes band member to go solo with his debut album Phrazes For The Young. A few weeks ago he unveiled the cover art for the album, which you can see at the t0p of this post, and now he has revealed a release date for it. The album will officially [...]
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Next month in Camden, London is the now annual BBC Electric Proms, the music festival that asks artists to do something different with their live shows for one night. Doves are one of the main acts at this year’s event and they will be collaborating with the London Bulgarian Choir and Ayshalom for a show [...]
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One of them is a well-respected hip hop artist who is prolific and the other is a TV On The Radio band member and hipster artist producer. Together, they are MF Doom and Dave Sitek. If what You Ain’t No Picasso is saying turns out to be true, the duo might be collaborating together on [...]
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As previously reported, Monsters Of Folk, a supergroup with Conor Oberst, Jim James from My Morning Jacket, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis, will be releasing an album under the moniker. The album is out next week and the cover has been officially revealed. When you think of the artwork in your head you’re probably likely [...]
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Let’s cut to the chase here – this is a make or break album for Muse. After the disappointment of 2006’s Black Holes And Revelations, fears were growing that the Teignmouth trio had lost their way and sacrificed their artistry for the sake of making a cheap buck (see Starlight and Invincible). When it was [...]
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I’ve been wanting to go to the Union Chapel for a gig for ages as good friend Crazybobbles keeps banging on about it and I finally got the chance to break my duck with an Amanda Palmer show last Saturday. It is a gorgeous venue, although you do get the sense that, maybe because the [...]
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Editors have announced further details of how they plan to release their third album, In This Light And On This Evening, which is to be released on the 12th October. The band will release the album in a variety of ways, as well as your bog standard normal release. This includes limited edition vinyl and [...]
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