April 17th, 2012

The Beatles‘ classic 1968 single ‘Hey Jude‘ is the most downloaded Fab Four track according to figures released today (April 17th) by the Official Chart Company.

Bombay Bicycle Club have announced plans for a North American tour this summer, including sets at Lollapalooza and the Firefly Music Festival. All headlining dates go on sale this Friday, April

The band has a summer full of notable European festivals lined-up including Reading, Leeds, Benicassim, Pinkpop Montreux Jazz Festival and Hurricane & Southside.

A new chart rundown which will be based entirely on sales of albums sold in independent record shops will be launched this Friday (April 17th).

Band of Skulls performs You’re Not Pretty, Live from Coachella, April 15, 2012.

Patti Smith has announced the full details of her first full UK tour in over five years which will support the new album ‘Banga‘.

The Hold Steady will begin recording a new album within the next few months, reports Rolling Stone.

Paul Weller will release the single ‘When Your Garden’s Overgrown‘ next month, the latest track to be lifted from his UK number one album ‘Sonik Kicks‘.

Former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft and Ray Davies have been added to this year’s Hop Farm line-up.

The nominations for this year’s prestigious Ivor Novello Awards have been revealed today.

Some bands you don’t want to keep a secret. You don’t want them to play tiny clubs forever, shrouded in obscurity and ignored by all but a faithful few.

Ellen and the Escapades have made a record that cannot stay in the underground. It’s too big and too beautiful to simply live its life out as a password for hip-ness. The bulk of the material on ‘All The Crooked Scenes‘ has been around a good couple of years. In that time, precisely nobody has signed up the band. No matter. They started up their own label, Branch Out Records. From there they released an EP, ‘Of All The Times‘, and an Amazon Folk and Rock chart-topping single, ‘When The Tide Creeps In‘. Last October they started a Pledge campaign to pay for recording this album. Thanks to a devoted and rapidly increasing fanbase, they reached their target in a mere eight days.