MGMT have made a bold move by apologising for their new album. We presume this is a tongue in cheek move as here at TMM we think it’s great. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser said to The Guardian that the album is a radical departure from their commercially successful previous album and have declared it [...]

Just a day after the sad passing of Malcolm McLaren, music has lost another great – though very different – character. Scottish Tenor Kenneth McKellar has passed away at the age of 82 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He will be remembered as a true Scot so much so that First Minister Alex [...]

UPDATE: Jonathan Daniel, the manager of Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, has said the reports are false. “That’s an amazing story, and the first I’ve heard of any of this…They manage to fit pretty much everyone in Hollywood into an article without one fact check.” Earlier Story doubting it was true: Twitter is alight with rumours [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 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 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 [...]