When it comes to unadulterated pure rock ‘n’ roll, you need to have the swagger of course, but the tunes also shouldn’t go a miss. Midlands own Century Man tick all the boxes for a classic and forward thinking rock band.
Loyal Doves fans worry not – the beloved Manchester band is not breaking up but rather taking a 2 year break from touring and recording, it was revealed yesterday. “We just [want] to get off that whole album-tour-album-tour treadmill,” singer Jimi Goodwin said.
Flowers‘ news of his first solo album, Flamingo, released later this year, was announced via a Killers fan site Tweet. Fans were directed to two official websites, thekillersmusic.com and the brand new brandonflowersmusic.com, where the homepages revealed the new solo project’s title. Readers can sign up for email updates on …
Jim Jones Review (photo Stephane Rossi)
The Jim Jones Revue has been confirmed to perform at the prestigious MOJO Honours Listceremony, taking place in London on Tuesday, May 4th. The most respected of all music magazine awards ceremonies, the much anticipated 2010 nominations for the annual MOJO Awards will be …
Myspace Music in conjunction with The Dead Weather are providing music fans with the next level of exclusive album access. Beginning on Monday, May 3rd, the premiere music site will be live-streaming The Dead Weather performing their latest release, Sea of Cowards, in its entirety. The band will perform the …
Everything Everything (photo © live4ever)
Chances are you’ve come across Everything Everything before. Chances are they perplexed, intrigued and if you’ve an ear for something special, they excited you. They first accosted our senses with ‘Suffragette Suffragette’ in Dec 08, followed by ‘Photoshop Handsome’ in May and third …
Former Guns n Roses legend Slash played a clutch of the band’s classic tracks at a gig in Australia yesterday to mark the launch of a new music station in the country.
Interpol have made a new song taken from the sessions for their fourth studio album available to download via their official website.
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has given fans an update on the rock supergroup’s new album, revealing the band have demoed some tracks and that frontman Dave Grohl’s plans are ‘awesome’.
East London’s four piece Django Django released this Funk Pop art piece video for the song WOR
Sir Paul McCartney has said The Beatles came close to reforming before John Lennon’s death in 1980, but now believes it is a ‘blessing’ that the plans were never realised.
SHINE
After SHINE‘s EP collaboration with English guitar legend Terry Reid caught our site’s attention (review), we had the pleasure to see the French band perform at this year’s SXSW festival. We recently caught up with song writer Guillaume Simon to chat about their experiences in the recording …
Indie three-piece The Young Knives have announced their return by streaming a new track on their official website.
Welsh indie rock three-piece The Joy Formidable is excited to offer their song “Whirring” as an MP3 download. As a track from their forthcoming EP titled A Balloon Called Moaning, “Whirring” exhibits what The Joy Formidable execute so well: crafting uplifting songs with a crashing rock element that …
Popstar Lily Allen has blasted the Brit Awards as worthless, saying the award ceremony is fixed with the winners decided by record label executives.
