This week's photo feature: The Cranberries are an Irish rock band. Although widely associated with alternative rock, the band's sound also incorporates indie, indie pop, rock, post-punk, Irish folk and pop rock elements. Shot by Bryan Kremkau @ Nokia Theater, NYC Click on large photo frame for full size.
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Blur’s triumphant headline spot at this year’s Glastonbury Festival has been voted the Best Headline Performance at this year’s UK Festival Awards.The band, who reformed for a series of gigs in the summer, produced one of the best performances of their career when they played a hit-laden, crowd pleasing set on the closing night of [...]
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Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has revealed his former bandmate Paul McCartney has contributed vocals to the lead single from his new album ‘Y Not‘.Discussing the collaboration on the track, which is titled ‘Walk With Me‘, Ringo said: “I played him this track and Paul said, ‘Give me the headphones. Give me a pair of [...]
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When Violens (vy-lenz’) began plotting their winter tour, they decided to create something to share with the audience overseas while working on their debut album. The New York band has explored a myriad of sounds and styles this past year on their self-titled EP (Cantora), a 7” for the track “Lighting Lightning” (Chess Club, [...]
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Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders has revealed the band have already begun working on ideas for a follow-up to this year’s album ‘Humbug‘.Speaking to BBC6 Music, Helders said: “We’re already talking about when we can record again, but I still enjoy being on tour as well. It’s good to have time to work stuff out, [...]
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After telling Italian radio station Deejay he had been demoing new songs with his ex-Oasis bandmates earlier this week, Liam Gallagher has now revealed more on his plans for a new album, saying he is sure his new tracks will be better than anything he did with his previous band.Speaking to MTV Italy, Liam said: [...]
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This Sunday (November 22nd) at 5 PM, Rock Radio (UK) will have a special program profiling one of the most prolific musical acts of the 20th Century; QUEEN.Rock Radio’s website posted this information on the special documentary broadcast:They’re one of the UK’s most successful bands of the last four decades having sold over 300 million [...]
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Sony Music is pleased to announce the CD and digital download release of the soundtrack album of the year, “Nowhere Boy” – the critically acclaimed film biopic about John Lennon’s teenage years that led to his music career from the Quarrymen, to his early relationship with Paul McCartney and the Beatles’ first trip to Hamburg.With [...]
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Behind the scenes of Lo-Star’s recording sessions with acclaimed producer Hugh Padgham (The Police, Genesis)
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Alberta Cross performs “Taking Control” live in-studio. The session was recorded in downtown Chicago at Shirk Music + Sound.
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It has been confirmed that Paul McCartney is set to be the latest musician to be awarded the coveted Gershwin Prize For Popular Music in spring next year.Macca will be the third musician to receive the prize, which is named after brothers George and Ira Gershwin, since it’s inauguration in 2007, following in the footsteps [...]
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New Yorkers The Strokes 2001 debut album ‘Is This It’? has been voted the number one album of the decade in a poll by British music magazine NME. The Libertines, fronted by often troubled Pete Doherty, scored a hat trick of nominations in the Top 50 and came in second with their debut [...]
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Veteran rock stars Depeche Mode spent most of 2009 taking their acclaimed ‘Tour Of The Universe’ around the world and are now bringing their sensational live show to the UK in December. The trio is also releasing an 8-track CD on December 7th.The CD features ‘Fragile Tension’, ‘Hole To Feed’ and [...]
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So where do I start with what some are saying is ‘their best album to date!’ Well confusing is the first thing that comes to mind. ‘Only Revolutions‘ is perplexing, but not in the good sense. For me its still in the middle as to whether or not its absolute genius.I am a huge Biffy [...]
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Italian fan site Wonderwall.it is reporting that Liam Gallagher, on his recent stop in Italy to promote his clothing line Pretty Green, informed fans that his new, yet to be named band, already has 7 demos recorded.Liam chatted briefly with fans in front of the studios of Radio DeeJay where he gave an interview last [...]
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Rachid Taha live is a subject that, generally speaking, most people are in agreement on. Live he is in his element; it’s just that pretty much every time this spiritual heir to Joe Strummer appears on a London stage it’s in the hallowed halls of seated venues. You could argue that the trade off lies [...]
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The Cribs have confirmed details of a US tour to take place in January 2010. The dates are in support of their new record 'Ignore The Ignorant', which was released in the US last week. The Cribs have been playing dates across the UK since the release of 'Ignore The Ignorant' in Britain, and will
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13/11/2009Anyone who says “grunge is dead” is wrong on general principle. Alice In Chains demonstrated exactly why tonight at the O2 Academy in Birmingham.Taking their first record in fourteen years on the road, tragically devoid of their late frontman Layne Staley, the Seattle survivors made their second stop on the UK leg of the tour.For [...]
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Remember when you were a child and your parents took you to the toy shop? you wanted to have everything in it and choosing something was impossible because all around you were toys screaming out ‘choose me!’. Such is the predicament in picking singles off Ian Brown’s current album ‘My Way‘ which is back to [...]
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In the album chart this week pop group JLS hit the top spot with their self-titled new album, while Robbie Williams, Biffy Clyro and Snow Patrol all have new entries in the top 10. Black Eyed Peas continue their recent success in the singles chart with their track ‘Meet Me Halfway‘ moving up two places [...]
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