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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Last night, Trent Reznor, aka Nine Inch Nails, played his final live show under the Nine Inch Nails alias with a sold out show at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Reznor, playing with Robin Finck, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Ilan Rubin, played a mammoth three hour finale that spanned his entire twenty-year career. He also [...]
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I imagine if you are a Muse fan right now, this is probably a very exciting time to be one. The band’s fifth album, The Resistance, gets released on Monday but if you are eager to hear it now and/or try before you buy, there are ways of streaming it today and tomorrow. For the [...]
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This week has been some week for music-related computer games. You have the Beatles edition of Rock Band, which came out yesterday and is, I can only presume, selling rapidly. Tomorrow, Activision will be releasing the fifth instalment of Guitar Hero, their juggernaut gaming series which has pretty much been one of the decade-defining computer [...]
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You may or may not know there is a big debate at the moment over the government’s proposed plans to eradicate file-sharing on the Internet. The new laws that are being suggested would mean that persistent file-sharers would have their Internet connections suspended, though not all ISPs have expressed pleasure at these new proposals. Today, [...]
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Music can sometimes be a mess. And most of the time, bands who make music that is ramshackle, messy, sloppy, unorganised, and rough around the edges (or, for want of a simpler word, Babyshambles) are not making stuff that people would want to listen to. It’s a feeling of wanting to hear the song underneath [...]
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It’s safe to say that I wasn’t expecting that at all. The London based female rapper Speech Debelle is the winner of this year’s Mercury Prize, beating off stiff competition from favourites Florence And The Machine and Kasabian, with her debut album Speech Therapy. The winner first appeared to be in a state of surprise [...]
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Jimmy McGovern is a pretty outspoken writer from Liverpool who has penned BAFTA award winning programs like The Street and Hillsborough, the latter about the tragic Hillsborough football stadium tragedy which is to be released on DVD for the first time. When interviewed by the Liverpool Echo recently, he spoke about how he feared the [...]
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We’re only a mere few hours away from finding out who is the recipient of this year’s Mercury Prize. Regular readers will know that a few weeks ago I ran a couple of articles profiling the nominees and given some pretty short thoughts on whether or not they will/should win. I make it pretty clear [...]
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In the spirit of the album title, and the fact that I have a longer review going up on Sonic Dice soon, I’m going to keep this album review as brief as I can. The Big Pink are Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell from London and the chances are that you’ve probably read/heard about them [...]
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Only 45 years after the band first made their mark on the music scene, they’re about to do it all over again. You may have noticed it is the 9th September 2009 (09/09/09) tomorrow and all of the previous Beatles albums have been remastered and are being reissued, as well as their own version of [...]
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Those of you who are avid readers of this website may know that the one and only thing that Jon McClure and I actually agree on is Form 696. The controversial form is one that promoters have to fill out when organising live events and many musicians, promoters, and several other people in the industry [...]
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I hate to post two items on Radiohead in one day (and in my defence I couldn’t do it last week because of the Reading coverage) but this is an interesting piece in the New Yorker with guitarist Jonny Greenwood. He talks extensively about making music in the mp3 age. It also includes this interesting [...]
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It’s not often bands from small towns get to play huge homecoming concerts but that is exactly what Muse did last Friday and Saturday (which I went to) as the rock trio headed home to Teignmouth in Devon to play The Den to around 15,000 people – a mix of locals and die-hard fans. It [...]
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Earlier on this year, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips and Win Butler of the Arcade Fire found themselves in a slanging match on the wacky world of the Internet that eventually subsided. Or did it? Does anyone actually bloody care about this anymore? Judging by comments by Coyne to the Irish Independent, he doesn’t [...]
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Radiohead have had a pretty productive few weeks. After last month’s Harry Patch (In Memory Of) and These Are My Twisted Words, Thom Yorke has announced he’ll be releasing two new songs, albeit under the Thom Yorke moniker, later this month. The double A-side single, Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses/Hollow Earth, will be released on [...]
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The unstoppable rise of the online streaming phenomenon known to all as Spotify continues with the news that it has just gotten portable. You can now download the Spotify application onto your iPhone, iTouch or Android and, as you would expect, allows you to listen to the entire library of music that the service has [...]
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The French duo Air will return with a new album, their fifth to be precise, called Love 2. The only help they've had with making it has been from LA drummer Joey Waronker, as the band handled all the vocal duties themselves on this LP. Sing Sang Sung, the first single to be taken from [...]
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