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Daniel Agust - Swallowed A Star
...much like the more understated moments of Björk’s work to date – Vespertine for example – Agust’s quasi-classical work rarely sounds bloated; rarely does it layer strings where they’re unnecessary. Thus, we’re left with a record that skilfully employs violin and cello where it’s at its most beautiful; never does a song come across as an Embrace-authored ballad of utmost blandness...»
Raekwon wins honour of producing best hip-hop album, ever
Raekwon, sometime member of New York's Wu-Tang Clan, has been awarded the accolade of being responsible for the best album in hip-hop history...»
Godspeed, Comes With A Smile
There’s a good chance that by the time you read this, however this turns out (give me a chance, I’m a sentence in), issue twenty of Comes With A Smile (pictured, and CwaS henceforth) magazine will have been printed and bound, ready for distribution across this country, the States and beyond. Sadly, it’ll be the magazine’s last issue – like so many similarly praised outlets for adventurous and creative writing, inspired design and professional production standards, it simply can’t continue...»
Damn Arms - Please Pass Me My Anti-Robotics / I Sink, Therefore I Swam
‘Please Pass Me My Anti-Robotics’ buzzes and fizzes like The Faint wired into a mains supply running too rich for their antique keyboards – the vocal yelps and thundering drum beats only add to the fevered atmosphere...»
Cash biopic up for five Oscars
Walk The Line, the new biopic of the early career of Johnny Cash, has earned itself five Oscar nominations for the forthcoming 78th Annual Academy Awards...»
Out of the Blue: Costa lands five-album deal
Tubby former boybander Antony Costa has somehow wangled himself a five-album deal. Um, Lisa Scott-Lee anyone?»
Coachella line up leaks onto the net
The line-up for this year's Coachella music festival, held in California across April 29th and 30th, has been revealed by NME.com... »
Ring the Bells: Orchestre announce one-off capital show
Bell Orchestre, the Canadian semi-classical outfit featuring a brace of Arcade Fire members, have announced details of a one-off London show...»
Movie star Murphy considers switch to music
8 Mile star Brittany Murphy is considering a change of career, putting her movie work to one side to concentrate on becoming a pop star...»
Smashing news: former Pumpkin nears end of second album
Former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur is hard at work on her second solo album, Billboard has revealed...»
Monkey busy ness: top poppers tour
Arctic Monkeys are doing a tour in April. Here are the dates. Tickets go on sale on Thursday February 2nd. So DO NOT come to us complaining that we didn't tell you. Come to us with cake instead. And ale. Thanks...»
Econoline finally release album number two
London-based indie-rockers Econoline have finally made their long-delayed second album available to the public. This Band Isn't Funny Any More will be available through Stupid Cat Records, and is the follow up to their acclaimed debut Music Is Stupid...»
Califone re-issue acclaimed debut
Acclaimed country-rockers Califone are to re-issue their debut album, Roomsound, next month...»
The Dandy Warhols, The Flaming Lips, Various, Cake, Death Cab For Cutie, The Walkmen, Phantom Planet, The Raveonettes, Rogue Wave - Stubbs The Zombie Soundtrack
I’ve seen computer game soundtracks available before, but this isn’t a disc full of thumping techno or Feeder b-sides; it’s a wonderful collection of 1950s hits – Buddy Holly’s ‘Every Day’, ‘Lollipop’, ‘Earth Angel’ – lovingly covered by today’s indie rockers and poppers – Rogue Wave, Ben Kweller and Death Cab For Cutie, respectively, as far as the above go...»
One little piggy went to market, two little piggies got gunned the f*ck down
Hot on the heels of the earth-quaking news that 50 Fiddy Cent is considering branching into the field of sex toys - he's considering lending his name to a range of vibrators - comes word that the rapper-turned-inverted-commas-actor is to put paper to pen, for kids...»
Be Your Own Pet - Let's Get Sandy (Big Problem)
There’s something wrong, rotten even, with the reservoir water down Nashville way these days – someone, somewhere, dumped a trafficker’s cargo so as to avoid police detainment, and now the tap-sucking kids are totally wired...»
Pink Floyd @ Albert Hall: UPDATED
Rumours are flying here, there 'n' everywhere, and they're all singing from the same hymn sheet - Pink Floyd, apparently, will reform again to perform a series of shows at London's Royal Albert Hall...»
Monkeys get sweetened up by Sugababes
Recently remodeled pop types Sugababes will belt out their cover of the AM's breakthrough single, ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’, on the b-side to forthcoming single 'Red Dress'...»
Danny McFly to leave band?
Certain sources this morning are saying that McFly's Danny Jones is looking to do a Charlie Busted and split from the band he's made his name with to pursue other musical projects...»
Eminem 'not quitting', apparently
Is he, isn't he, does anyone really care? Well, yeah, actually, so here's the latest shizzle on Eminem's, erm, nizzle? »
No need to save them, your kisses are wasted on The Pipettes
Brighton-based polka-dotted belles The Pipettes are to release their second Memphis Industries single on March 27th...»
Secondsmile - Walk Into The Light And Reach For The Sky
Full marks to Dorset four-piece Secondsmile for picking up pieces that many a lesser band would’ve left scattered about their feet, potential shattered by a departing lead vocalist...»
Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
On paper it’s a potentially disastrous pairing: on one side of this five-inch plastic disc we have Campbell, twee scene pin-up and possessor of the most delicate voice this side of one of Heaven’s own chanteuses; Lanegan, meanwhile, is the Devil’s own baritone, voice hoarsened by a life spent chasing rats and dragons down gutters and alleyways, choking on the dust of a dozen near misses...»
Festival rumours: the Mode for Wireless, Franz for Reading
Depeche Mode have rather let the cat out of its proverbial bag: although organisers of this summer's Wireless Festival, held in London's Hyde Park, haven't yet revealed the initial line up, the three-piece have posted the event on the upcoming shows page of their website...»
Pretty impressive: Barat's new boys sell out tour in 20 minutes
Carl Barat's post-Libertines venture Dirty Pretty Things have sold out their first UK tour in a staggeringly short amount of time: twenty whole minutes...»
Bands settle their scores on the football field
We're told, reliably, that Scots like three things oh so very much: booze, music and football. With this in mind, lager types Tennents are again holding their Futsal Sessions. What's Futsal? Good question - the answer is that it's like football, five-a-side, but with a "Brazilian twist", so we're told...»
Ròs re-issues available now
Sigur Ròs' breakthrough EPs, Svefn-g-Englar and Ny Batteri, have been re-issued...»
The Sophtware Slumps, for good: Grandaddy split
Indie-rockin' beardos Grandaddy have elected to call it a day, sadly, so say their label V2...»
Weller would rather eat sh*t than duet with Blunt
Councilor of Style Paul I-used-to-be-in-The-Jam-before-Wild-Wood-made-me-Mondeo-Man's-favourite-MOR-bore Weller has refused Brit organisers' offer of a duet on the night with last year's solo success story, James 'The Cat' Blunt... »