May 12th, 2010

Heaven 17 has announced the 30th Anniversary November UK Tour of their critically acclaimed 1981 concept album ‘Penthouse And Pavement’ which they will perform in its entirety. Tickets go on sale Wednesday May 12th at 9am. BUY TICKETS BPRYP8D6T54V

SXSW 2010 Winner of Best Music Video

US rockers Interpol have announced details of a US tour to commence next month, in what will be their first dates without bassist Carlos Dengler who announced his decision to leave the band earlier this week. The group, who recently revealed that they have finished work on a new album, will begin their tour in New York on June 21st, before finishing in Pennsylvania on July 24th.

Alicia Keys’ latest video ‘Unthinkable‘ from her “Element of Freedom” album premiered today. Co starring in the video is Chad Michael Murray who plays her love interest. The clip is set in the 1950′s where the characters struggle with their inter racial relationship in the middle of an African-American community.

Eminem’s new single ‘Not Afraid‘ becomes only the sixteenth single in Billboards chart history to debut at No.1 after it sold more than 379’000 copies in its first week! The rappers new track sits on top of the official US Hot 100 chart and raked in the highest weekly sales of 2010 so far.

Band of Horses new disc ‘Infinite Arms‘ arrives in stores on May 18th but the fine band have made the whole album available to stream via Soundcloud in the mean time. First feedback from fans has the Seattle group’s new work being compared to UK’s Snow Patrol . Not quite getting the connection there?  Well find out yourselves and give it a listen…