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Best start catching up on your sleep in advance... The Insomniac's Ball returns to London later this year, at the SEOne Club. The all-nighter - from seven in the evening 'til six the next morning - takes place on the night of November 25. Bands c»
Electro-pop duo Pet Shop Boys are to release a live record later this month...»
Beck's new album, The Information, will apparently miss out on a chart placing this weekend as the Official Charts Company has ruled that its packaging - the album comes with a set of stickers - comprises an unfair advantage...»
Chris Clark wants you to know him by his surname only. That, we’re fine with; what we feared – what I feared – is that somehow this abbreviating of record-sleeve nomenclature would in some way affect the music contained within it; I worried, with no real reason, that Body Riddle would be a more minimalistic affair than previous Clark efforts, those where he felt no desire to trim his perfectly-acceptable non-nom de plume...»
Weezer have filed a lawsuit against beer company Miller and their advertising agency Young & Rubicam following an advertising campaign for the cold fizzy boozey stuff that used the Weezer name in a "grossly misleading and deceptive" manner...»
This winter's Twisted Folk tour of the U-of-K looks like the very best yet, with Nina Nastasia (pictured) confirmed to play alongside both Jeffrey Lewis and William Elliott Whitmore...»
The Cooper Temple Clause - whose new single 'Homo Sapiens' is released later this month on October 23 - are off on tour from next week. Perhaps you've already got yourself a ticket to one of their many shows? If so, this is old news to you, fine sir or madam. However, if this is new news to you, best get on the blower quick-sharp, sunshine...»
Brighton's Brakes are to release the follow-up to last year's Give Blood long-player next month...»
Gene are to release a double-disc album of Peel Session songs...»
Did you dig September as much as we did? Really, we’ve not known a month like it this year: fantastic releases were flooding through our letterbox near-enough non-stop. From metal to folk, to thunderous post-rock and twisted electronica, many a base was covered and covered brilliantly. So this month’s A Month In Records has been one tough mother to compile...»
Dancefloor-bound indie boys Thunderbirds Are Now! are to release their third album next month, their second for the Frenchkiss label...»
Scottish rockers Idlewild have announced details of their live return. Singer Roddy Woomble has, of course, recently been playing solo gigs...»
Polka-dotted swingin' singer types (and that's not a comment on their sexual practices) The Pipettes are to play a special Christmastime gig in London this year...»
Dark-poppers from Sweden, Audrey, are to tour the UK at the end of this month to support the recent release of their Visible Forms long-player...»
London-based noise-mongers Todd ahve only gone and booked themselves a US tour. Ish...»
Disappointing? Crushingly so. At least the new album is something to be positive about...»
Swansea - it's in Wales - is to get itself a festival next year...»
Nothing polite ever creeps its way from Murder By Death. Like their name wasn’t a large-enough clue, this is a bloody, visceral experience; it’s the sound of Two Gallants’ murderous lamentations shrink-wrapped by Tim Kasher and shipped to a Korean film studio, ready for implementation in some 18-certificate flick or other...»
London-based punk-rockers Silent Front need a new drummer...»
Yeah yeah, so there's an England match on the telly. Bothered. It's Macedonia. At home. We'll win, yeah? So come to this instead of sitting at home in front of the Beeb...»
Brighton-based duo Blood Red Shoes are to celebrate reaching the one hundred gigs mark by playing a hometown show this weekend...»
WAIT! Didn't a pair of best-of albums come out t'other year? I'm sure I have one. Or maybe two. Don't hurt me...»
...and then gets told, "tough".»
Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant is to perform at a one-off gig to raise money for an ill neighbour...»
Legendary punk Patti Smith is to play the final gig at New York's CBGBs venue later this month...»
Guitars that jangle despite their rusty strings? Croaky, booze-broken vocals? We’re in Americana country, right? Hell yeah, and the trail that winds its way over yonder hill and towards all things ‘contemporary’ and ‘current’ is well dusty, sun-scorched dry and verged by shallow graves and picked-dry animal skulls...»
Lords are a trio from Nottingham. They've been gigging for what seems like an eternity, but only released their debut album, This Ain't A Hate Thing, It's A Love Thing, through Gringo earlier this year. That said, members' previous bands - details will be revealed below - have enjoyed many a release and also a fair amount of critical acclaim...»
This weeks’s chart round-up is brought to you by the sandwiches cheese and ham and egg and cress, a cup of milky tea and a deposit on a new flat to the tune of five-hundred big ones. Yes, copies of Aerosmith’s 1994 greatest hits compilation...»
'Goodbye My Lover' - y'know, one of many songs about some pretty face that ol' ugger James Blunt likes to bash one off to (possibly) - has been named the song that most UK residents would like to soundtrack their funeral...»
Foo Fighters fans with a penchant for the rock had best look away now: the band have confirmed that their next album, Skin And Bones will be a live and acoustic affair...»
