Month: December 2012

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Got any New Years Eve plans yet? If not, check your mail box. The Sun is reporting that Kings Of Leon have been booked by Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich to play his £5 million New Year’s Eve party.

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It might have become one of the biggest selling UK albums of all time during the 18 months or so which have passed since her breakthrough performance at the Brits, but it seems those who managed to reach the end of this year without getting their hands on Adele‘s …

Fatboy Slim, The Hives, Biffy Clyro, and ALT-J, are among some of the latest bands that have been added to the line-up of the eighth edition of the Bilbao BBK Live festival ; scheduled to take place from the 11th to 13th July in Kobetamendi, a 10 min bus ride …

Manchester Indie-rockers Darktown Jubilee have made their forthcoming single Stay available to stream online:

Stay (single version) – Cenzo Townsend mix by darktownjubilee

Released on February 18th and taken from the forthcoming album The World, The Flesh & The Devil (Feb 25th), Stay is the emotionally charged follow up to …

Pulp unveiled a brand new studio recording of the track ‘After You‘ in time for this year’s Christmas celebrations.

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Mumford & Sons singer Marcus Mumford has hinted the band may look to explore new directions on their next album.

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150 great Britons have been suggested by members of the public to have their faces appear on the new £10 note. Among the many names put forward for the back of the new tenner where were rock and pop stars such as Sir Mick Jagger, the Beatles and ex Take …

The benefit single released to raise money for the legals costs being incurred by the families of the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster is the 2012 Christmas Number One after it held off the challenge from this year’s X Factor winner James Arthur.

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Salford based Happy Mondays have been touring with their original line up again including Shaun‘s brother Paul Ryder on bass, Gary Whelan on drums, Rowetta as backing vocalist, Mark Day on Guitar, Paul Davis “PD” on keyboards and dancer Mark Berry “Bez”. Spring 2013 should see the release of the …

Now you’ve been through our extensive Essential Listening 2012 series, which includes all our top choices from a past twelve months of albums, gigs and tracks, here some of our frankly super talented band of writers pick out their own favourite album of 2012, each making a convincing argument for …

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A UK leg of the 2013 Sonisphere festival will not take place next year as organisers do not believe they can secure a strong enough bill for the event which was cancelled entirely last year.

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The Killers and Queens Of The Stone Age have been confirmed as the first headliners for Benicassim 2013 after the event’s future was secured by promoter Vince Power back in October.

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Blues duo Deap Vally will be back in the UK early next year for a ten-date tour, and have also announced details of their latest single.

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A memorial service is being held today (December 20th) for the hugely influential musician Ravi Shankar, who died earlier this month aged 92.

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After creating waves of tastemaker excitement with their debut single ‘The John Wayne’ and a string of critically-acclaimed live shows at CMJ in New York, Little Green Cars have today been named on the BBC Sound of 2013 longlist

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Desaparecidos, the band fronted by Bright Eyes leader Conor Oberst who got back together earlier this year, will embark on a short tour of the UK for the first time next year.

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