We have been totally absorbed, ensconced and just plain overwhelmed by the Fall music scene in the US North West and we have just realised that .. holy crap..... it has been totally under our radar that the "Big Day Out' which (for those of the uninformed) is the biggest, rocking'est, hottest most bloody awesome summer music festival in Australia is rolling on in full flight.... Auckland Fri 15...
The shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for best British or Irish album of the last 12 months has been announced. Biggest surprise; No Doves, White Lies or Lilly Allen..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8159078.stm.Place your bets;.Kasabian - 5/1Florence and the Machine - 5/1Bat For Lashes - 6/1Glasvegas - 6/1La Roux - 6/1Lisa Hannigan - 8/1Speech Debelle - 8/1The Horrors - 8/1F...
Tom Meighan, lead singer with Mercury music prize nominee Kasabian, has branded American music fans "deluded" and said they are 30 years behind the UK musically. He told UK radio station XFM that, "You have to be U2 or Coldplay to get radio play. Americans are deluded, not all of them. They think they're ahead, but musically they're not. They're 30 years behind." His outburst comes just days a
Fire from Kasabian on Vimeo. This makes up for the puzzling album cover. The video for 'Fire' is absolutely brilliant and the song itself isn't too shabby. Tom and co. play the role of fugitives behind one of the most stand-out choruses of the year so far.
This the first single from Kasabian's new album, "The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum," to be released in June. I like how the song turns out. This is definitely one of the stuff I like to have being stuck in my head playing. I also like how Kasabian spiced things up here a bit. I think it sounds less darkish without going overboard. It's nice that the band managed to retain that old 'Kasabian...
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Kasabian’s third album, will be released on June 9th on RCA Records.Produced by Serge Pizzorno and Dan the Automator (Gorillaz, DJ Shadow), it is a follow up to their second album Empire which debuted at #1 on the UK charts.Earlier this month Kasabian gave fans a sneak peek of their [...]