Month: July 2009

The Fab 4 drive the girls crazy in this 1965 classic!

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Arctic Monkeys previewed five new songs on a live internet web cast last night, giving fans a taste of material from new album ‘Humbug‘. As ever, the band were in a quiet mood, quickly rattling through a set which also included a cover of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds …

Paul McCartney is ready to quit touring, nearly 50 years since first hitting the road with The Beatles, The Sun is reporting.

According to the paper, he will hit the road next year for one final world tour. A ‘source’ said:  “Paul wants to go out with a bang. He’s …

Peter Doherty has once again hinted a Libertines reunion could be close after revealing he and fellow ex-bandmate Carl Barat discussed the idea after a gig together in May.

Speaking to The Times newspaper, Doherty said: “Basically we had a good couple of hours. We were up all night together. …

Rod Stewart, ranked 2nd on Hot Tours Chart

Billboard reports that Co-headliners Billy Joel and Elton John got top honours in the Hot Tours ranking with totals from two venues on their 2009 “Face2Face” tour.

The pair mostly hit the arenas but had a couple of stadiums on there schedule …

I was very sceptical of Johnny Marr joining a band that I had only fairly recently grown to love. Not that I am questioning the talent and musical prowess of the legendary Smiths guitarist, I just wondered whether there would be any chemistry between him and the Cribs, on a …

Back in June Manchester’s heroes Oasis stopped by at Heaton Park to play 3 home coming concerts. The 70’000 boozy fans in attendance for the first of the three nights saw the plug pulled on their Brit Rock darling’s sound system after only one and a half songs. Apparently a …

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has said Bloc Party may never make another record after 2008’s ‘Intimacy’.

Speaking on Australia’s Triple J radio station, Okereke said: “We don’t know what the future holds. It’s weird, we’re out of contract now so…we might take a year off, we might take three …

Veteran Liverpudlian band Echo & The Bunnymen have announced details of their new album, the first since 2005’s  ‘Siberia’. ‘The Fountain’ will be released on October 12th and will be preceded by a single, ‘I Think It Too’ on September 28th.

The band were …

The commercial arm of UK broadcaster the BBC , BBC Worldwide Music, has unveiled that it will be making two major new U2 shows available for sale to international broadcasters.

The programming features the Irish band’s roof-top performance on top of BBC Broadcasting House in London in February 2009.

“U2=BBC: …

Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers have announced details of their first American tour in ten years. The band will tour the US in September and October, beginning in Seattle on September 21st and finishing in Boston on October 8th. The tour also includes two dates in Canada.

They are visiting …

London Blackmarket’s single Checkmate is out on Polydor records

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At a gig compromised of mostly competition winners, I couldn’t help but wonder how many people there were interested in hearing Graham Coxon’s solo work or rather hoping he’ll just play a Blur album from start to finish, I guessed it was probably the latter, only confirmed when someone shouted …

Friendly Fires unleash this vibrant video for their latest single “Kiss Of Life” Release Date: August 31 2009.

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Although Kasabian front man Tom Meighan claims that the Brit rockers are enjoying a huge success in the United States he recently shared his impressions of American fans after the band’s tour across US.

The singer stated that fans in the United States are deluded about music. «Americans are deluded …

U2 @ Croke Dublin; flickr

“A sort of homecoming?” One might say that. For Irish rock titans U2 their long awaited return to Dublin’s Croke Park was a triumph of magnificent proportions, as more than 80,000 fans from all corners of the planet brimmed Ireland’s largest stadium.

The open-air venue …