May, 2011

‘Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy‘ is the bizarrely titled fifth studio album from California based alternative rockers Dredg. With a turn around of little under two years since the band’s last offering, ‘Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy’ sees the shortest time span between studio album releases since the group’s inception in 1993.

Dredg cite the reason for this shorter than normal writing period as wanting to create as interesting music as possible without necessarily juggling with time consuming, sophisticated song structures. In essence, this album is simply meant to be a bit more…fun. And fun it is, with obvious comparisons in terms of instant accessibility to what is arguably the most accessible record in the Dredg back catalogue, ‘Catch Without Arms‘.

UNKLE – Money And Run (feat. Nick Cave)

Coldplay will announce their comeback on Friday (June 3rd), when new track ‘Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall‘ is released digitally worldwide, with its UK release following at midnight a day later.

The Kooks have released full details of their new album ‘Junk Of The Heart‘, their third studio effort due to hit the shelves on September 12th.

Muse bass player Chris Wolstenholme has revealed he is to take up the main songwriting duties for the band while frontman Matt Bellamy takes a break from music to spend time with partner Kate Hudson, who is expecting the couple’s first child in July.

Leeds-based Kaiser Chiefs have announced their return today with the unveiling of new single ‘Little Shocks‘ via a post on their official Facebook page.

It could be said that Steven Gene Wold is a guy who has risen from the very bottom of the barrel, right the way to the top of a musician’s game – by anybody’s standard. But what a search engine, or perhaps some article dubbed as from the streets to the charts might define as the ‘bottom’, is really just a colourful and at times surreal background.

It really is hard to believe that Irish rock’n'roll bandits The Minutes have been making a racket for most of the past decade considering how their long overdue debut came to be.
In the span of five hysteric days the three Dubliners fried twelve tracks barely caged by thirty five minutes to tape in a New York studio from where the album takes it’s title and if the jaunt to the Big Apple is evidence of anything, it’s that The Minutes are making up for lost time.

Popstar Lady Gaga has knocked Adele’s huge selling album ‘21’ off the top spot for one week at least with her new record ‘Born This Way’. Elsewhere, Noah & The Whale’s ‘Last Night On Earth’ climbs to #13, while Aloe Blacc is at no.14 with his album ‘Good Things’ enjoying strong sales off the back of hit single ‘I Need a Dollar’. Respective LP’s from Foo Fighters, Friendly Fires and Fleet Foxes all drop places to make up the 18, 19, and 20th positions.

On the UK Singles chart, Pitbull is on top with the track ‘Give Me Everything‘.

Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has spoken of his pride in their new album ‘Suck It and See‘ ahead of the record’s release date on June 6th.