November 11th, 2010

Single from Los Angeles based The Active Set.

The Boxer Rebellion have today released details of the follow up to their 2009 second studio album ‘Union‘.

After years of partying in the Met Bar with countless other Britpop stars at the height of so-called ‘Cool Britannia’, Blur bassist Alex James has labelled today’s music scene ‘sober and serious’ while thanking his lucky stars his band found success back in that hedonistic Nineties period.

Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson will bring his ‘…Reimagines Gershwin‘ album to the UK next year for a series of September dates.

The White Stripes could be ready to return to the studio imminently to begin work on new material, according to the duo’s frontman Jack White.

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If the true sign of a band’s worth is whether they blow your socks off on stage, you could do a whole lot worse than put your faith in the power of Band of Skulls The reports appear to walk the razor thin edge between revelation and hyperbole, but every amp-disintegrating detail delivered by slackened jaws and shellshocked blog-fingers seems to push the consensus firmly toward the latter. Band of Skulls – a trio! – are the genuine article.