May 28th, 2012

Kasabian‘s Serge Pizzorno showed his talents aren’t just restricted to stadium-filling songwriting last night when he scored a spectacular goal at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium during a charity football match organised in aid of UNICEF.

Sales of just 13,000 were enough to take Emeli Sande‘s debut record ‘Our Version Of Events‘ to the top of the UK Album Chart yesterday (May 27th), according to weekly figures published by Music Week.

Bob Dylan will release a new album later this year, according to reports.

Maturity.

Now there’s a loaded word to use when talking about a new album. Does it refer to the sound of the band that finally refines and evolves into their true collective self?

Or maybe it’s the band that fancies shifting a few more units and heads closer to the middle of the road? Or perhaps it’s the band that’s just a little bit older, and a little bit wiser, as the industry’s resident ‘elder statesmen’.

The Walkmen return with new album ‘Heaven‘ and yes, it’s a mature offering from the New York/DC outfit. And one that encompasses a little bit of each of the three aforementioned parameters – in a good way.

Saint Etienne‘s eighth studio effort ‘Words and Music‘ has topped this week’s UK Record Store Album Chart.

Iron Maiden‘s third studio album ‘The Number Of The Beast‘ has been voted as ‘the greatest British album of the last 60 years’ by a HMV poll conducted to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

The Killers have revealed the title for their upcoming fourth studio album.