May 26th, 2011

The promo video to Viva Brother’s , ‘New Year’s Day’ … Boobies alert.

Returning Sheffield legends Pulp made their live return in Toulouse, France last night, as they warm up for the first major date of their reunion at the Primavera Sound festival tomorrow (27th).

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has described himself as a ‘mad barker’ during his early days with the punk legends.

Glastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis has admitted he failed to land his first choice act to headline the Pyramid Stage at this year’s event, but was more successful in other approaches.

New York-based The Hold Steady have released details of a summer US tour, due to commence towards the end of August.

Take a quick scan of all the online articles describing Austin alt-rockers Okkervil River and a certain set of terms will permeate each piece, namely ones like ‘poetic’ or ‘bookish’ or ‘hyper-literate.’  While such language may seem somewhat nebulous when used to describe the nuts and bolts of their actual music, it does offer an obvious insight as to the way in which the written word has played an important part in the group’s creative process.

Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has said he believes there is now as good a chance as ever that The Stone Roses will reform – as he claims Ian Brown needs the money.