Interpol describe upcoming fourth album
The record, which is as yet untitled, will be released early next year.
Get Back Guinozzi: Carpet Madness
I have to admit, I’m struggling with this one. The thing I’m struggling with most isn’t whether or not I like it. Well, actually it is; because I’m not sure how I feel about it, I don’t know how to write about it. It’s all very emotional, this reviewing lark.
Arctic Monkeys: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
There's always a danger that bands who take to Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena stage may find themselves dwarfed by the cavernous hall, reminiscent of a WW2 bomb shelter despite being less than 15 years old. Arctic Monkeys have spent their brief career slowly building up to this moment - a full arena size tour -...
Dame Shirley Bassey: The Performance
It sounds exactly as you’d expect a Dame Shirley Bassey album to sound.
Silence is golden…
It was, for me, becoming one of life’s certainties; music has both the voice and the range to impress upon any moment. Whether it is in celebrating a sporting triumph, thanking your version of our maker or wooing a lover, a sonic backdrop that can raise the emotions is seemingly always available.
Creed: Full Circle
Sometimes you hear something which truly redefines your thoughts on the genre; something utterly enrapturing which leaves you agape at the brilliance that just spewed out of your Hitachi two-piece; something captivating to the senses, like a shuddering orgasm from start to finish, leaving you drained but beyond happy. This is not one of those...
Take That reunite – sort of
Take That and Robbie Williams both joined Sir Paul McCartney on stage for an ensemble rendition of Hey Jude.
Kids In Glass Houses, Attack! Attack!, Straight Lines: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Sitting down to write this review I wasn’t sure just how to start it. There were ideas, sure, but they wouldn’t translate onto the page. I had writer’s block. Hard. Then I glanced down at my notes and saw one word drunkenly scrawled across the top of my pad, underlined four times: “NOISE”.
Maccabees to headline NME awards tour
Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums will join The Maccabees on the tour, which starts in Newcastle on February 4.
Interview: Brakes
Brighton band Brakes (or Brakes Brakes Brakes if you live in America – more on that later) are a busy bunch of boys... A long time ago, TMM sent them some questions – and then, like an anxious mother, we waited with bated breath by the phone/letterbox/computer for word.
Introducing: Dear Acetate
Introducing Dear Acetate, from the same Hertfordshire towns that have spawned the likes of Gallows and Friendly Fires.
