Month: February 2010

Lady Gaga‘s album ‘The Fame‘ has ended TV show Glee’s short stop at the top of the Album Chart this week, while Marina Lambrini Diamandis, a.k.a Marina & The Diamonds (photo), has debuted at #5 with her new record ‘The Family Jewels’. The latest in Johnny …

The brilliantly named Cosmo Jarvis, a talented young man from Devon, England, is someone who may well get his fair share of column inches in the music press this year. A little unknown band called Muse gave him a leg up when they invited him to support them at a …

Metallica (photo © live4ever)

They might have raked in the most dough in 2009 but are they necessarily the best acts out there right now?  Judge for your self and leave us your thoughts!

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After seeing The Midnight Lycan Party’s gig in Stoke last month I felt like putting my iPod in a guillotine, eradicating every byte of voguish trash and instead basking in the unpretentious revival of raw performance.

The three piece from Stoke-on-Trent categorize themselves as a gothic garage band with shadings …

The news that the BBC could axe 6Music has dealt another blow to new and unsigned bands looking to get their music heard by a wider audience. The message being sent to new bands, and music fans who wish to find them, is increasingly becoming ‘you’re on your own’.

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Liverpool band Echo & The Bunnymen have confirmed details of a US tour to take place this Spring, after their planned visit in November was cancelled due to a tax dispute.

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A leaked report in today’s Times newspaper has claimed the BBC is set to axe it’s radio station 6Music as part of a ‘strategic rethink’ of the public-funded service. The paper claims ‘Mark Thompson, the Director-General, will admit that the corporation, which is funded by the £3.6 billion annual licence …

Ex Guns N Roses guitar slinger Slash is claiming that the UK lacks any bona fide rock legends in the making and goes as far as to say that UK music was ”tame, predicable and faceless,”. He adds that the whole world needed to create more “Rock Stars”

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Thom Yorke announced today at http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/ that his band Atoms For Peace (previously billed as ????) will play a series of eight U.S. shows leading up to its April 18 appearance at the Coachella festival in Indio CA.

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The Rolling Stones are to re-issue their 1972 classic ‘Exile On Main St.‘ with 10 previously unreleased tracks, it was announced today.

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers today announced their 2010 North American tour and the upcoming release of Mojo, their first studio album in eight years, set for release on Reprise Records this spring.  The North American tour, produced by Live Nation, will take the band through a mix of top …

Following the worldwide success of their first three albums, the members of Keane announce today the release date of Night Train to be released on Cherrytree/Interscope Records in the U.S. on May 11. The band who has had three consecutive #1 albums in their native UK and have played sold …

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Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme has expressed his disappointment at Warner Music’s decision to remove it’s artists work from free streaming sites such as Spotify.

Wolstunhulme told BBC’s Newsbeat the move could deter potential listeners from enjoying their music: “It’s like taking your …

The Hold Steady (photo © live4ever)

Brooklyn-based rock band The Hold Steady have confirmed the tracklisting of their new album, and have released details of two UK live dates.

‘Heaven Is Whenever‘, the group’s fifth studio album, will be released through Rough Trade on May 3rd. The band, …

Editors (photo © live4ever)

Live4ever caught up with Editors’ lead guitarist and synthesizer man Chris Urbanowicz before the lads from Birmingham England hit the stage at Terminal 5 in front of a packed house on New York City’s West Side this Friday night. The band is about to return to …

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