June 20th, 2012

Two Door Cinema Club will release their new album ‘Beacon‘ in September.

Viva Brother have apparently re-launched themselves as a synth-led pop band just a few months after announcing their split.

Pure Love have announced six low-key UK gigs for this coming July.

To say that 70’s soul icon and generational journeyman Bobby Womack has earned his status as a rarified legend is a point that is hardly worth mentioning.

The man has been making music for literally half a century, beginning in 1954 with his run as a prepubescent member of Curtis Womack & the Womack Brothers and culminating with a 2009 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Along the way he played guitar for Aretha Franklin, collaborated with Sly & the Family Stone, penned ballads for Janis Joplin, and still found time to pump out twenty-six studio albums and a slew of chart-topping singles all under his own name.

To say that an artist of Womack’s stature is in need of one last career-affirming record is to entirely miss the point altogether, but that is exactly what Womack himself has managed to do – miss the point, albeit fantastically – with the release of this year’s ‘The Bravest Man In The Universe‘, a remarkably powerful collection of songs that somehow celebrates his storied past by simultaneously pushing himself further from it.

Fifth single taken from Noel Gallagher’s debut solo album ‘Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’, featuring actress Mischa Barton.

Bloc Party handed seven new songs their debut last night (June 19th) during the first gig of their comeback UK tour in Glasgow.

Coinciding with The Stone Roses‘ reunion this summer is a beautifully presented exhibition of photographs and memorabilia entitled The Stone Roses: The Third Coming.

Taking place at ‘The Space’ in Bayswater, London, this insightful retrospective is heralded as ‘The Definitive Exhibition’ and is indeed an authoritative illustrative account of the band’s rise to success through a remarkable selection of images.

Mumford & Sons will invite a selection of guest musicians to join them at their forthcoming European festival appearances after frontman Marcus Mumford broke his hand last weekend.