Month: March 2011

Arctic Monkeys will release ‘Don’t Sit Down Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair‘, the first single taken from new album ‘Suck It and See‘, as a digital download on April 11th, and will also issue a special white label 7″ of the track backed by ‘Brick by Brick…

Promoters of a special charity event in aid of the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, initiated by members of Beady Eye, have slammed touts who have made tickets available on auction sites at a vastly inflated price.

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Leeds quartet The Music have announced they will split after a series of farewell shows beginning in July.

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Arcade Fire played a surprise 45-minute show at Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson, located on the island’s capital Port-Au-Prince on Tuesday night (March 29th), reports Rolling Stone.

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Brother (photo © Live4ever Media)

We’re Going To Bring Guitar Music Back!

If timing is everything in music, Viva Brother might just be on to something. At a time when any young music fan usually needs to trawl down somewhere far below the Top 40 to find traces of where …

The Strokes, Foo Fighters and pop superstar Lady Gaga lead the names confirmed to appear at Radio 1’s Big Weekend, which is to be held this year over the weekend of May 14th-15th in Carlisle.

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Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl has insisted rock and roll is here to stay, despite the lack of commercial exposure currently being suffered by many of today’s bands.

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Coldplay have returned to the studio to put the finishing touches on their new album, according to the blog Roadie #42.

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Official video taken off the “Show of Hands’ Ep available in the UK on Best Before Records

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Young Rebel Set have unveiled details of their debut album, which will be released in June 2011 via Big Flame Records.

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The new collaborative effort between Blur‘s Graham Coxon and former Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones will be made available to download from next month via converse.co.uk.

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Former White Stripes songwriter Jack White has explained further the reasons for the duo highlighting their belief that the band ‘no longer belonged’ to them when announcing their decision to split last year.

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The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has candidly talked through his recent drug problems, casting a light on one of the major reasons for the long wait for a new album from the New York band.

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Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has said the band are likely to play their 2001 second album ‘Origin of Symmetry‘ in its entirety when they headline this summer’s Reading/Leeds festival, after recently revealing the shows could mark the last time the band play tracks from the album live.

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Manchester Apollo

With their proud musical tradition which stretches right back to the earliest days of British rock n roll, residents of Manchester have much to be proud of, and it seems they’re quite happy with the current scene going on in their locality after the city finished top in …

John Dwyer hasn’t slept in fourteen years.

More force of nature than mere mortal, the man has neither the time nor the need.

At least that’s what it seems like. Ever since repositioning himself across the United States from Providence to San Francisco in 1997, the singer, songwriter & schizo-rock …