Girls Aloud have announced another arena jaunt for next spring, playing one of their biggest tours to date. Cheryl, Kimberley, Nadine, Nicola and Sarah will be hitting the road for close to a month, with possibly more dates to be added to the list to fill in the gap. (That's me saying that, not Girls Aloud's [...]
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Kings of Leon have announced two more dates next summer around the UK to continue their status as one of our biggest and most popular bands. I'm guessing they may add a few more dates to make it worth their while, or play a few European festivals around the festival times… we'll see in due course. Tickets [...]
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NME have announced their annual NME awards tour next January and February. The frankly amazing lineup sees Glasvegas, Friendly Fires, White Lies and Florence and the Machine all take to the road together for what is surely going to be one of the most epic tours known to mankind. The tour culminates in the NME Awards show [...]
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Robyn Hitchcock has announced a string of UK tour dates for next February. Tickets are on sale now, priced around the £13 mark. Saturday 7th February 2009 - Glasgow ABC2 Sunday 8th February 2009 - Newcastle Academy 2 Tuesday 10th February 2009 - Leeds Brudenell Social Club Wednesday 11th February 2009 - Birmingham Glee Club Thursday 12th February 2009 - London [...]
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Living in self-imposed exile in Paris, Dan Black meshes sounds and genres with the same fluidity, ease and cultural nous as his heroes David Bowie and The Neptunes to create his own blue-eyed culture clash of soul, hip hop, rock and electronica and the result is utterly beguiling. We were first introduced to Dan, in major [...]
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Attack and Release sees The Black Keys produce their fourth studio album and it is full of classic bluesy riffs and inventive rhythms. "Same Old Thing" is the first released single from the album and the track gives your ears a nice work out but, for me, there were other tracks that could have been [...]
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"I think the sound is never the same twice really," says Felix of five-piece garage blues revivalists The Wireless. "We like to theme each song we right and give it the appropriate sound pallet. We really try to limit ourselves and not fuck around with too many effects. Its much more important for us to [...]
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Hackney five-piece The Wireless are back with a follow up to the sensational "He's So Proud." It would be hard, verging impossible to follow up the success of such a promising debut, but the latest installment "Been Here Before" hits the same standards, reaffirming the band's potential. Combining blues inspired garage guitars with spontaneous lyrics; [...]
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Still stuck for a Christmas idea for a loved one? Or need the definitive book to settle those pub quiz arguments? Well, the 2008 version of the Virgin Book of Hit Singles has just been published, and you can't get much better than its impressive 661 pages of musical knowledge. We spent a night down the pub [...]
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Deep down, I had secretly hoped that Slipway Fires - Razorlight's third album, released this week - would prove to be a mighty comeback after the let-down that was the band's self-titled second release 2 years ago. Oh, how my hopes have been dashed. The album kicks off with current single, 'Wire to Wire', an easy on [...]
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I have been a fan of Florence and the Machine for quite a considerable amount of time now. Thing is, I didn't actually realise it up until a few weeks ago. Basically, I kept hearing this super catchy tune on the tube about kisses and fists. Intriguing, I know. Anyhow, the other day, I decided [...]
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These lads from Dallas sound like the bee's knees and that's obviously what Universal Records thought who signed the band less than a year after the band formed. Forever The Sickest Kids (FTSK) have an early Good Charlotte feel to them and they're unquestionably gifted, ambitious and hard working but that can't explain how quickly this [...]
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With influeneces that span from hardcore originators Gorilla Biscuits, to Florida's pop punks New Found Glory, this massachusetts five-piece have taken thier favourite sounds from pop punk harmonies to hardcore riffing and melded them into one hell of a bruising music formula. The band are definitly for fans of Fall Out Boy and in fact Four [...]
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John Legend has announced a string of four UK shows next March. The US crooner, who personally I ain't a huge fan of, is playing four shows up and down the UK over a week next year. Tickets for the below dates go on sale at 9am on Friday (7th November). Catch him at: Monday 9th March 2009 [...]
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We announced earlier in the year that Counting Crows were doing a massive tour of the UK and Ireland this winter. However they've just announced that they've cancelled it "due to unexpected personal and work commitments in the USA". So basically they don't love us. See Tickets are still saying that Ben Folds is playing, which [...]
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The Prodigy have announced a massive arena tour next April. Support comes from Dizzee Rascal. Tickets go on sale on Friday (7th November) at 9:30am. Catch the Essex lads at: Sunday 5th April 2009 - Cardiff International Arena Monday 6th April 2009 - Newcastle Metro Radio Arena Tuesday 7th April 2009 - Glasgow SECC Thursday 9th April 2009 - Birmingham NIA Friday 10th [...]
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Former Fame Academy winner Lemar has announced a huge UK tour for next spring around the UK, stopping just about everywhere. Tickets go on sale for all dates this Friday, 7th November at 9am. Monday 16th March 2009 - Carlisle Sands Centre Tuesday 17th March 2009 - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Thursday 19th March 2009 - Reading Hexagon Saturday 21st [...]
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Conor Oberst has always had the knack of causing division amongst his fans. Each one of his albums seems to have a completely different sound showing the talent and variety that Conor can produce. His latest album (bright eyes) has followed route and is nearly unrecognisable to past releases. The tracks on Bright Eyes also [...]
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With the release of The Bronx's third album (thoughtfully entitled "The Bronx III") the punk scene definitely has a new titan on the block. The hardcore sound produced by growling guitar riffs and vocals full of aggression has actually seen the band tone down. Earlier records produced by the band were truly wild while this [...]
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Haven't heard of Mongrel before? No, neither had we until we read the press release. The indie supergroup (if you can call it that…) features Arctic Monkeys former bassist Andy Nicholson, Babyshambles' Drew McConnell, Reverend And The Makers' Jon McClure and Joe Moskow and rapper Lowkey. So it's either your best dream come true, or [...]
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