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.  [...]

Dr Evil: “Gentlemen, it’s come to my attention that a breakaway Russian Republic called Kreplachistan will be transferring a nuclear warhead to the United Nations in a few days. Here’s the plan.  We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransom… (dramatic pause)… FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS!” Perhaps it’s the Robbie Williams’ effect, but [...]

While we tut at the disgraceful behaviour of Hoon, Hewitt and others caught up in the recent lobbying scandal, it was, being a rouse, fairly innocuous. However, as we do this an actual triumph for shady backroom politics is about to be bank rolled through Parliament by the big boys of the music industry. I [...]

Ok….if you’re looking for distraction on this Bank Holiday, here’s your weekly singles club. HUDSON MOHAWKE – JOY FANTASTIC: With overtones of Andre 3000′s The Love Below, this camp disco tune is the perfect song for getting ready for a big night. TIGERS THAT TALKED – ARTIFICIAL CLOUDS: The meaningful vocals of Jamie Williams indicate [...]

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 [...]

Depending on which review you read, Boy Crisis are, according to the Guardian “so hip and now that it hurts”, or as Pitchfork Media would have you believe, “the absolute worst band in the world right now. Seriously”. The ‘seriously’ only emphasising the magnitude of their disdain! It is this very uneasy marmite reaction to [...]