Earl plays host to pop concert
Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, is to act as host at a pop concert this summer...»
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Noir's dad's gonna 'ave you: singer gets sports ad
Singer Jim Noir is to have one of his songs featured on an upcoming television advert from Adidas...»
Limp Bizkit still with it: Durst says band isn't over
They're on, they're off, they're on... Following Wes Borland's claims earlier this year that Limp Bizkit are finished as a band, frontman Fred Durst has written the opposite on his MySpace blog...»
Kanye announces his Late Orchestration
Rapper and friend to many a celebrity, Kanye West, is to release a live album later this month...»
Gomez: new album, tour
Gomez are to return to shops about the land with a new album, How To Operate...»
Death Cab For Cutie - Crooked Teeth
As a pop single this is almost perfect: the chorus is mega-sized, the guitars swell like crystal waves and there’s just enough jangle to attract listeners of both Radio 1 and 2...»
Mono - You Are There
Part those clouds, see actuality in its glory, hold my hand and I’ll shadow you every step of the way if need be; I’ll wander these corridors too, feeling with fingertips, gladly, smiling to no one but myself as vision becomes redundant...»
Arab Strapped for cash
Arab Strap have fallen victim to a robber on their US tour, the second time they've been involved in matters of a criminal nature...»
D-12 rapper killed in Detroit: Updated @ 17.00
D-12 rapper Proof, otherwise known as DeShaun Holton, was shot and killed in Detroit this morning (updated at 17.00)...»
Six Organs awaken: new album, London show
Ben Chasny's Six Organs Of Admittance are to release their new album, The Sun Awakens, on June 5th...»
BBC 3 promises more live music coverage
Digital channel BBC 3 has announced its plans for greater live music coverage. The channel will broadcast footage from Reading and Leeds this summer, along with Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee and T in the Park...»
Run to the Hicks: new DVD in May
Ryko are to release a new Bill Hicks DVD on May 8th. Sane Man is the first-ever complete Hicks performance to be released on video/DVD, with footage dating from 1989...»
Cluckin' hell, Rooster aren't over?
Fowl pop-rockers Rooster slipped from our screens some time ago, as viewers of CD:UK and Top Of The Pops Saturday decided they were, indeed, a sack of bird flu-contaminated chicken shit. But, back they are coming; Fearne Cotton, beware...»
Wilco are "all over the place" on new album
Wilco are hard at work on the follow up to the much-acclaimed A Ghost Is Born, and are due back in the studio next month...»
Subways cancel London shows
Going to see The Subways tonight? Can't say I approve of your gig choice, but I do have this to say: don't bother. Stay home. The band won't be there...»
Tune on tour: sign up at these shows
Every so often it's nice to offer a helping hand the way of the up-and-coming; after all, without tomorrow's rock and rollers, what a boring future we're faced with. So, with this in mind, here's news of a tour organised by new(ish) label Signature Tune...»
Enigk finishes second solo LP
Jeremy Enigk - current singer/guitarist in The Fire Theft alongside Foo Fighters past and present William Goldsmith, and Nate Mendel and one-time Sunny Day Real Estate frontman - is putting the final touches to his second studio album. It hasn't taken him long, oh no: his debut, Return of the Frog Queen, only came out in 1996...»
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Etiquette
It’s entirely contradictory that Owen Ashworth – a.k.a. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – opens his fourth album with the line “Woke up with fingers crossed.”»
Remaining Beatles to issue new album?
So half of you are dead, one remaining member's a vege-sausage-munching environmentalist and t'other has a fondness for talking trains. Does that stop you releasing a new album? Apparently not...»
Raconteurs sabotaged by Aussie jazz band
The Raconteurs have been forced to change their name in Australia after another band stepped forward claiming they'd already nabbed the Jack White-featuring outfit's name...»
Black Mountain Army invasion
Black Mountain will headline a three-band tour, also featuring Pink Mountaintops (who include BM members) and Blood Meridian, recently signed up to V2...»
T organisers rule out bird flu cancellation
The brains behind Scotland's T In The Park festival have countered press claims that the event will be cancelled because of the discovery of bird flu not so far from the festival site...»
Fatboy need not Try Harder: greatest hits coming
Fatboy Slim is to release a greatest hits set this summer. Why Try Harder? comes out through Skint on June 19th...»
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
No single song here can serve to summarise At War With The Mystics’s whole; in many ways it’s the most wonderfully out-there record the Lips have ever produced...»
Fantomas/Melvins Big Band makes UK live debut
The freakiest of super-duper metal-mutha groups, The Fantômas Melvins Big Band, are to make their UK live debut on May 1st at London's Kentish Town Forum...»
DiScover: Enablers
We’re perched on a picnic bench, Brick Lane, London; the evening’s revellers and simple workfolk weaving their way home punctuate the quiet about us. Every so often a hush descends and the tape recorder – seated centrally between the three points, the three mouths, of guitarist Kevin Thomson, vocalist Pete Simonelli and myself – picks up every breath, every stuttered-to-a-stop half vowel...»
Glasto film previews, plus live bands
This summer sees the domestic cinematic release of Glastonbury, chronicling the highs and highs of the festival since its inception, with a tonne of live performances along the way...»
Arthur Lee in fight against leukemia
Arthur Lee is apparently suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A post to said effect appeared on LA-based Love and Lee fan site LoveWithArthurLee.com...»
Sufjan to release Illinois outtakes
Sufjan Stevens is to release an album of material originally written for his Illinois album in July...»
Somerset House warns of hoax tickets
The management team at London's Somerset House (pictured) have warned that online adverts for a series of gigs in the summer are false... »