May 23rd, 2012

Work on a new Blur album has been cancelled – at least with William Orbit – by the band’s frontman Damon Albarn, according to the producer himself.

Adam Horovitz has looked back in detail on his life with Adam Yauch for the first time since his Beastie Boys bandmate sadly passed away earlier this month.

Remembering the period of Yauch’s cancer diagnosis and his feelings subsequently during an interview with Rolling Stone, Horovitz remarks:

“He said, ‘I’m gonna be okay’. He’s been right about most shit so far. So I believe him. You would get swept up in his excitement and positivity. We recorded a few months ago. It wasn’t any different from before. We spent more time making fart jokes and ordering food, which was true to form. That’s why it always took so long for us to put records out.”

“I don’t believe Adam was afraid,” he continues. “Bummed out, yeah. But I can’t think when I ever saw him afraid. We got jumped in Brooklyn one time, so we’ve been afraid in that sense. But, man, he hadn’t been afraid in a long time. That gives me peace.”

Read the interview in full at Rolling Stone here.

A link between that old cliche of sex, drugs and rock & roll has been proven by science, according to boffins at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

All The Young will support their debut album ‘Welcome Home‘ later this spring with a spate of UK touring.

Looks like The Flaming Lips are at it again.

Whether it’s name-checking fans on a a six hour-long track or putting a sample of Yoko Ono‘s blood in one of their records, Wayne Coyne and co. are never ones to shirk a challenge, and now the band have announced plans to break the world record for the number of gigs in one day.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs is set to release his long-awaited debut full-length Trouble in the US on June 12 via Casablanca Records

Dance pop duo Chew Lips will release their new single ‘Do You Chew?’ on 11th June through the bands own label Family Records

This is the deleted version of Timeless Melody ripped straight from the vinyl test pressing acetate in 1988. It got pulled from release

In just 3 short months the band have played to 2300 people at their two sold-out London headline shows and on the day their critically acclaimed album Prisoner was released in the UK

New single performed this week on Later…with Jools Holland. This guy’s gonna be a star.