Ben Folds to release collection of rare stuff
Ben Folds is to release a collection of rare material in October, entitled supersunnyspeedgraphic, the lp...»
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Don't lose it, Just Do It: Eminem designs Nikes
Not-rapping-right-now rapper Eminem has designed a series of sports shoes for Nike. The shoes will be auctioned for charity...»
Green Day to put their blood into American Idiot follow-up
Green Day are working on the follow-up to their mega-selling and award-winning American Idiot album...»
Police appeal for Leeds Festival rape witnesses
The Sun has reported that a 27-year-old girl was raped at the weekend's Leeds Festival, and that the attack was witnessed by many an attendee...»
The Rapture announce a pair of free shows
New Yorkers on roller skates The Rapture are to play twice, both times for free, in London pretty darn soon...»
Reading and Leeds: great, apparently...
The folks behind the bigger-than-ever Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds have said that this year's event was great. Which is kind of expected, even if it'd been rubbish, really...»
Elton John and the Louis Vuitton Don: a match made in a place of more money than sense
Elton John plans to record a hip-hop record featuring a wealth of contemporary rappers, reports Rolling Stone...»
Someone SHOULD slap a tax on these polls...
Q magazine - the number-one mag for rockin' dads everywhere - has published another top-100 poll. This time, they've focused their decaying ears on the best 100 songs of all time, as voted for (of course) by their readers...»
No Hope for the united States? Band to split... probably
Hope Of The States, it would seem, are all but over. The sextet played the Reading and Leeds festivals over the weekend, but are on record as saying that said shows would be their last...»
Don't Look Back Into The Sun: tabloid Libertines rumours abound!
The Sun has reported that Pete Doherty and Carl Barat - the songwriting core of The Libertines before said band broke up - have begun writing together again...»
The Tuesday DiScussion: can we beat festival crime?
It’s no secret that things have a habit of going missing at festivals all the time: from stray cans of Stella and portable gas hobs to leather jackets and digital cameras, each and every major music festival campsite suffers a rash of robberies once inebriated metalheads have retired to their inflatable beds and roll mats. Just because it’s an apparent given that possessions will find their way into new hands over a bank holiday weekend, though, doesn’t mean we have to take it...»
Cocker for Koko
Former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker has announced details of a one-off show in London...»
Jeremy Warmsley, Plan B, The Rumble Strips at London Buffalo Bar, Thu 24 Aug
Yes, the language is intended to reinforce the often violent and visceral subject matters, but songs like ‘Missin’ Links’ and ‘Who Needs Actions When You Got Words’ – the latter the title track from Plan B’s debut album – would be perfect mainstream material, ripe for FM consumption without some bland Streets-style ballad playing burly quarterback to aid their cause, if stripped of the excess swearing...»
Radiohead to release "favourite gig for years"?
NME.com has reported that Radiohead may release a DVD of their performance at this year's Bonnaroo Festival...»
Peaches' peta2 pledge: electro gal joins anti-clubbing campaign
Canadian electro-rocker sort Peaches is the latest musician bod to pledge their support to peta2's campaign to stop the yearly seal cub cull in the country...»
The Feeling - Never Be Lonely
If he’s any compassion at all, any empathy for the common man tuning into breakfast time FM radio stations across the land, then Mr Gillespie-Sells, father of The Feeling singer Dan, must now be wishing he’d elected to masturbate that night...»
DiScover: Cyann & Ben
Cyann & Ben are the best musical wet dream you’ve never had, yet. They’re French, seductive like a fine fragrance lingering in the wake of a fantastically beautiful belle of the ball, and they’ve earned themselves comparisons to acts as diverse as Low and Sonic Youth. They’re entirely likely to leave the unsuspecting listener in a sticky, gooey mess come the release of Sweet Beliefs, the quartet’s first-ever official UK release...»
New Emo Goth Danger? My Chemical Romance confront tabloid criticism
"Papers like that will never do their homework, but it is kind of funny to call it ‘emo death cult’, or whatever it was called." A blast from the past (2006 in fact). Read our interview with the band»
Pinback to release b-sides compilation
Pinback - ace indie band responsible for 2004's great Summer In Abaddon LP, among other superb releases - are to release a collection of b-sides and rare songs in September...»
Betty Curse - God This Hurts
Are you shitting us? What the fuck is this Kelly Osbourne-(r)aping crap? You’ll make me pay for your pain? Fine by me, since you sound irritated to the tune of about twenty pence...»
Portishead 'release' first new tracks since '97
Portishead are currently streaming two brand-new tracks on their MySpace page...»
The Who to release first studio album for 24 years
Endless Wire, the forthcoming studio album by The Who, is to be released via Universal on October 30...»
Kerrang! Awards: My Chemical Romance win big
New Jersey quintet My Chemical Romance - whose third album (we can't tell you what it's called, even though we know and have heard it) is released in October - have been named 'Best Band On The Planet' at the annual Kerrang! Awards...»
Frieze Music 2006 - two great London gigs
This October, London's Hippodrome - at the heart of Leicester Square - will play host to two nights of quite stupidly good music as part of the annual Frieze Arts Fair...»
Last-minute Tilly show announced, plus Fortuna Pop! update
Tilly And The Wall, or Tilly & The Wall if you're one of these ampersand-fancying sorts, have announced a last-minute London show. So, like, here's the information...»
Keane rehab spares the States Razorlight
One stone, two birds? Or some similar adage or other...»
Rooster want band recommendations. First person to suggest Anal C*nt wins nothing...
Back-from-the-dead pop-rockers Rooster are asking their legions of fans to suggest bands to support them on their upcoming UK tour...»
Kaisers cheesed off over BNP promo video
The British National Party (BNP) has upset northern pop-rockers Kaiser Chiefs after the political party used the band's 'I Predict A Riot' in a promotional video...»
The Thermals - The Body The Blood The Machine
The usual comparisons still stick – the pop-inflected punk of Guided By Voices, Pixies, any high-tempo rock act popular with indie kids proper – but there’s something about The Thermals that doesn’t warrant absolute acclaim...»
CasioTours: Owen Ashworth announces autumn dates
That Owen Ashworth, right, he's nay a happy beardy. He's gone so far as to commit some four albums to tape as way of 'catharsis', or something. The brilliant thing is, though, that his musical alias, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, is actually well good to dance to. And this autumn you can...»