January 24th, 2012

The National have missed out on a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song after the original long-list of 39 was cut down to two today.

Bruce Springsteen has unveiled a series of US arena dates beginning in March and, in announcing the E Street Band members set to join him on the road, appears to have confirmed what we all already knew – Clarence Clemons is irreplaceable.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Miles Kane and Bombay Bicycle Club have been confirmed to join the previously announced headliners The Stone Roses and Florence & The Machine at this year’s annual Benicassim festival.

Florence & The Machine will take their second album ‘Ceremonials‘ across the Atlantic from April for an extensive US tour.

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has praised the impact of Nirvana after the band performed in Northern Ireland with The Breeders back in the early Nineties.

Radiohead‘s eighth studio record ‘The King Of Limbs‘ has been confirmed as the biggest selling album on vinyl format in the UK last year.

Tribes have risen through the ranks of the crowded Camden music scene and emerged as contenders for the title of debut album of the year.

Formed a little over a year ago, they’ve propelled themselves into the mainstream after winning over last year’s festival crowds to make them one of the most promising bands of 2012.

The post Libertines meltdown in 2004 left a void which for a frustrating amount of time was filled with copycats and second rate rip offs. The city had been overrun with bands all clinging on desperately to the glory of those coat tails and a once promising time in music has now almost sunk without trace. Tribes are not the new Libertines, nor do they share much in common musically, but the parallels in their dramatic rise to stardom and strong links with Camden’s gig circuit will no doubt draw comparisons.

The Gaslight Anthem are back in the studio recording their fourth album, and have been giving fans regular updates via Twitter over the course of the past few days.