Portishead creep closer to finishing third album
Nine years have passed since their self-titled second album, but now Portishead are getting closer to finishing work on their third long-player...»
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The Morning After Girls - Shadows Evolve
Your foot’s twitching, tapping; there’s no music in the earphones you never activated, the jack hanging loose above your satchel, so now the schoolchildren two seats behind are whispering: “Man, he’s so wasted…”»
Full-time Monkey business for O'Malley after Arctic bassist quits
Stand-in Arctic Monkeys bassist Nick O'Malley will take up the position full-time following original member Andy Nicholson's decision to leave the band for good...»
Andy Falkous ponders Future, decides the Left is where it's at
News just in ('cause we read it some other place): former Mclusky fella Andy Falkous has formed a new band, Future of the Left, with drummer Jack Egglestone...»
Joan Of Arc prep a pair of July albums
The Tim Kinsella-fronted Joan Of Arc (Kinsella pictured) will release a pair of albums this July: one totally new, the other a collection of hard-to-find titbits...»
Snoop rolls out the Blue Carpet: album news
Current Pussycat Dolls collaborator and sometime detective duo sidekick Snoop Dogg has spoken to Billboard about his forthcoming album, Blue Carpet Treatment...»
Computers: the Apple of Fiddy's eye
Monotone rapper 50 Cent looks likely to expand his ever-growing brand into the world of home computers, with a deal with Apple nearing completion...»
PETA members win dinner with Beyoncé; proceed to put her off her meal...
A pair of PETA members entered a competition to enjoy dinner with pop star Beyoncé Knowles, won and then used the opportunity to confront her over the use of fur in her own fashion line...»
Can we actually write 'Spunk' here? Whoops, too late...
Sex Pistols' bootleg live album, Spunk, is to get an official release some 30 years after it was originally recorded...»
Feeling Blue? Cheer, instead! Legendary US rockers tour...
...in the States, anyway.»
Lupen Crook does stuff
I have no idea who this Lupen Crook fellow is, but I hear he's quite The Popular with those in t'know, so here's some news about him...»
Foos play not-so-secret-at-all gig tonight
Tickets went on sale yesterday, though, so if you ain't got, you ain't gettin'. Unless, of course, you're utterly minted and can part with a LARGE sum of money, directing it the way of a scummy tout...»
Chasms ‘tween spasms, or close to the same edge? An Albatross and Cutting Pink albums assessed
Both tick a number of those boxes, the ones the casual listener will still associate with The Locust, and maybe Trencher, too. The solution to my which-to-cover-first woes? DO BOTH. AT THE SAME TIME. AND WRITE IN CAPITALS. It’s what they’d want…»
Missy as Missy: rapper to play herself in forthcoming bio-pic
Missy Elliot is to play herself in a film about, um, herself. Y'know, about her life and stuff...»
Warmsley toursley: gigs, single and album news
Jeremy Warmsley is, as you may have noticed, on t'road pretty imminently...»
Ibiza Rocks: latest line-up...
This summer will again see a flood of indie bands leaking their merry way into Ibizian superclub Manumission for the Ibiza Rocks series...»
But stars don't have eyes, y'idiot: Paris Hilton album and single news
Apparently some people are actually looking forward to this...»
Xfm overcomes complaints about poster advertisement
Xfm Manchester has been cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority to run a poster advertisement featuring two children dressed as Oasis' Gallagher brothers, one of whom is flicking the v-sign...»
Green Day help discover unexploded grenade. Kinda.
A 12-year-old in Halifax - that's the American Halifax, by the way - uncovered a live grenade in her garden after comparing her find with the cover of Green Day's American Idiot album. »
Captains Of Industry turns three: massive album giveaway!
Fairly freakin' awesome indie label Captains Of Industry is about to celebrate its third birthday, but instead of offering y'all a slice of cake we've devised a slightly better way of celebrating this anniversary by way of rewarding one lucky reader...»
Murder City one-off: acclaimed (and rather defunct) punks announce show
Sadly, fellow Brits, it's in the US. But then you kinda expected that, right...»
The Cartoon Network goes METAL. No, really...
Looney-Tune metallers Metallica - recent headliners of quiet-'til-Sunday-night rock fest Download - have provided voices for a new Cartoon Network series...»
Got Wood? The Priory does...
The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood - pictured far right - has checked himself into rehab ahead of the band's tour, which kicks off next month...»
Christina Milian dumped by Def Jam
Hip-popper Christina Milian, still claiming that she's gonna keep it gangsta on a myriad of television and radio channels with Say I', has been dropped by her label Def Jam...»
Comets On Fire: new album news
Comets On Fire have revealed that their new album, their second for Sub Pop, will be called Avatar.»
Former Panic! bassist says he was kicked out
Former Panic! At The Disco bassist Brent Wilson, who left the rising pop-punks last month, has revealed to MTV that his amicable departure was actually anything but...»
Razorlight name new album; imaginations explode
The country's favourite love-to-hate-them beat combo Razorlight - primarily famous for their lead singer's habit of opening his big mouth - have finally given their forthcoming second album a title...»
Mars Volta and Trent Reznor to appear on El-P album
El-P's forthcoming long-player, I'll Sleep When You're Dead, is to feature guest appearances from members of The Mars Volta and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor...»
Korn cancel European dates after blood ailment diagnosis
Korn's Jonathan Davis has been diagnosed with a rare blood ailment. As a direct result, the band will not immediately honour their European touring commitments, but return to the US so that the singer can rest up...»
Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Young men they may be, but these Texans could as easily hail from the 1970s as they do these post-millennial times: by drawing upon respected influences – Neil Young’s touch is apparent on more than a smattering of these eleven songs – but writing truly fantastical lyrics ever so slightly detached from reality they’ve created something that is truly timeless...»