Local Natives: Gorilla Manor
The way the album ends sums it up perfectly. It's a vaguely interesting track. It meanders, but more prettily than most of the album. And then it just fades away. Into nothing. Poof! It's gone. Just like the rest of the album, it leaves no lasting impression.
North East's musical talents set to shine
Newcastle's Discovery Museum is set to host a brilliant afternoon of music from some of the North East's newest musical talents.
Frightened Rabbit become a fivesome
Gordon Skene, formerly of Make Model, will play with the band on their November tour.
Muse, Kasabian, Monkeys scoop big Q Awards
Other winners included White Lies (Best New Act) and Mr Hudson (Breakthrough Act).
Frankie & The Heartstrings début single on way
Hunger will be released on 7" vinyl via Rough Trade on December 7.
Cosmo Jarvis: Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch
Semantics stay away, for any assumptions that Cosmo Jarvis is a space-aged florescent adolescent should be banished.
Interview: Charlotte Hatherley
"Labels don’t know what the fuck they’re dealing with. Fuck the labels - it’s the artists that need to make money."
Basement Jaxx: Scars
This could be what divides fans - the album detracts so far from their earlier work, with so many star-studded vocalists dotted across the fourteen tracks people are bound to feel the band have sold out.
Enter Shikari: O2 Academy, Newcastle
With the new album Common Dreads keeping the fans thoroughly satisfied, Enter Shikari had to produce a preformance that lived up to expectation.
Cheryl Cole: 3 Words
Anything Cheryl Cole puts her hand to will flourish and, therefore, 3 Words is sure to be a guaranteed success.
