Kings of Leon Start Recording New Album for 2010
At the end of last year there was a fair bit of doubt that The Followills would be able to put the family feuds down and put together a new album. Speaking to the, ahem, Daily Star: We started seriously writing the songs when we got back home from tour…I got a call from Caleb...
Russell Brand Joins Robbie Williams on Three Lions 2010
The announcement from the FA that the England management “want to be fully focused on the football” and will be foregoing an official song has only served to increase demand for the traditional patriotic anthem. Enter Messers Brand and Williams, both huge football fans (supporting West Ham and Port Vale fans respectively), to serve up...
Kele Okereke: Solo Album
Bloc Party junkies can give a relieved exhale as Kele Okereke has announced details of his solo alubm. Simply going under the solo name of Kele, he put this out on his blog: “hello boys and girls. i have finished my record, it is called The Boxer and it will be coming out on witchita/polydor...
Thom Yorke and Atoms for Peace New Song
Thom Yorke and Atoms for Peace are currently touring the US and last night treated fans to a surprise new song in New York. It seems to still be in the experimental (or at least unrehearsed) stage with the backing music dropping out almost altogether, just allowing Yorke’s trademark haunting vocals to capture the audience. ...
Slash’s Solo Album
Slash’s long awaiting solo album has been made available to stream online, though here in the UK we will have to wait till the 10th of May before you can buy it. The album sees slash becoming the Jools Holland of rock in as much as he invites friends to provide vocals over his instrumentals...
Biffy Clyro, Bubbles
Biffy Clyro announced his new video via Twitter recently. “Bubbles”, taken from their 2009 album Only Revolutions, sees the band once again mix distinctive Kilmarknock vocals with an American sounding backing. This time though Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone age fame supports on guitar; the relationship between the bands having been formed when...
The Libertines Reforming for Reading and Leeds Festivals 2010
The speculation is over; with the official line up announced today, it’s now confirmed that The Libertines will be reforming to play a last set for their fans at the twin festivals. So have they finally put their differences behind them? Perhaps – but there could be other reasons playing their part too. Earlier in...
Foals, This Orient
There was a period in 2008 when every copy of NME was packed with fawning praise for Foals. And that’s where the major problem lies with the band – it’s hard to get past the scenester hype and pretension. Their new album has been compared by NME to The Cure, TomTomClub, Ladysmith, Osibisa, Siouxsie and...
MGMT Congratulations Leak
Over the last week there’s been a glut of leaks of the new MGMT album “Congratulations”. Luckily, this has led MGMT to leak it themselves. Speaking on their official website they said: Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We wanted to offer it as...
Boy George: Amazing Grace
In 2009 it seemed Boy George had become irreversibly assigned the status of caricature; a camp 80s hangover jailed “false imprisonment” of a male escort and ending up as the world’s most famous street sweeper. The details are well known, but the accusations that the incident went beyond the consensual never quite chimed with the...
Who is iamamiwhoami?
If you haven’t come across this spooky viral campaign yet here’s a quick intro. In early December a video was posted on Youtube by iamamiwhoami. This and the following 5 videos have shown a blonde woman, usually covered in mud, sporting preposterously long eyelashes and interacting with a natural environment – which usually looks like...
Florence and the Machine, Dog Days Are Over Rerelease
Florence + The Machine is cleverly capitalising on her recent win at the Brits with her new release Dog Days are Over. The song is fairly familiar having already been released in 2008 – though only reaching a paltry number 89 in the singles chart – and being the backing music for Channel 4s recent...
