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It’s that time of year – the sun’s peekin’ its way past the outer fluff of the clouds, and pale-faced indie boys are thinking about takin’ off their tops. They won’t, of course – we’re too shy for that. Festival-wise, there is but one event that truly whets the insatiable appetite of the indie boy: All Tomorrow’s Parties...»
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor is working with hip-hop poet Saul Williams on the latter's next long-player...»
Reformed boyband Take That have signed a brand-new album deal with Polydor. A new studio album will be released in the autumn...»
The fourth annual Secret Garden Party is to be held in August, somewhere deep in the Cambridgeshire countryside...»
Further names have been announced for this year's Wireless Festival, which takes place in June in Leeds and London...»
Organisers of the BBC's forthcoming One Big Weekend event, to be held in Dundee this weekend, are warning music fans that there are bogus backstage passes circulating on the internet...»
Really-rather-dead Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, who choked on a bullet back in 1994, has been voted the greatest rock and roll hero of all time by readers of NME...»
Welcome mainstays on the indie-rock circuit proper, Cove have been responsible for some of the most thrillingly electric, bombastically intense shows these ears have witnessed over the past five years...»
South coast purveyors of all things polka-dotted, The Pipettes, will release their debut album this July...»
Isle of Wight indie-poppers The Bees will test material for their new album Octopus on the roads of Scotland this summer...»
The Fall's US tour has hit the skids rather, as band members Spencer Birtwistle, Ben Pritchard and Steve Trafford have left Mark E Smith and wife Elena to fend for themselves...»
Damian Marley has dominated this year's International Reggae & World Music Awards, held in New York at the weekend. Son-of-Bob took home the gongs for Entertainer of the Year, Music Video of the Year and Recording Artist of the Year...»
Mayor Ken of London has announced the first few bands that'll appear at this year's Rise event, to be held in Finsbury Park on 8th July. That's, like, but a single bus ride from my house...»
We'll only really believe it when we see it sitting on a record store shelf, but Axl Rose has told US radio listeners that the much-discussed but never seen Chinese Democracy album WILL be released this year...»
Even the hardened Feeder fan must realise now, after this debacle of a throwaway single not even worthy of infinite bargain-bin residence, that the band’s time is up...»
Approaching St Elsewhere with an established intention to dislike it purely because of the over-exposure of one song will leave you one of two ways: either your expectations will be rightly dashed by an album that's wickedly vivid, full of soul and many a spark of invention, or you'll steadfastly refuse to let it impress you...»
Pink Floyd's 1973 album Dark Side Of The Moon has reached its 1,500th week on the Billboard charts...»
The British Board of Film Classification (the BBFC) has asked the makers of The Da Vinci Code, the movie based on the amazingly popular Dan Brown novel, to tone down the film's soundtrack as it was scary for children...»
Carl Barat has told The Scotsman that the chances of he and former bandmate Pete Doherty appearing on stage together aren't quite slimmer than a Pepperami...»
Don't wander too close to the front, really: one of An Albatross' first-ever shows saw their singer strip naked and then hospitalise himself. Now, we wouldn't want you getting similarly hurt...»
Liverpool Football Club's finest players are to release a version of Johnny Cash's immortal 'Ring Of Fire' to coincide with their appearance in the FA Cup Final...»
The long-running legal saga of Apple versus Apple has reached some kind of conclusion today, as the High Court came to the decision that Apple Computers was not in breach of a trade mark agreement dating back to 1991 between them and Apple Corps, the label established and owned by The Beatles...»
To the hardened genre aficionado, little here will sound particularly challenging - MacPherson draws as much upon the textural wonder of The Future Sound of London as he does the scattered beats and breaks of Squarepusher, but rarely strikes an entirely unique blow...»
Brooklyn-based oddballs of occasional lushness and plenty o' puzzles Oneida have expanded to a four-piece. The new member in question is one Phil Manley, of The Fucking Champs, who will operate under the name 'Double Rainbow' while on Oneida duties....»
The first few acts performing at this year's Middlesbrough Music Live event have been announced...»
Shouty southerners Help She Can't Swim are to saddle up and head on down that road come June, carrying the yelp-fight-lazer-gun combo that is Tiger Force with 'em...»
Scottish indie lovelies My Latest Novel are to follow their current tour alongside similarly lush trio Low with a series of headline dates...»
A biopic focusing on the life of Bob Dylan is to start shooting this summer...»
Razorlight are facing up to the prospect of a couple of weeks' worth of late nights and early rises as they fight to finish their second album...»
He IS jus' a rascal, but one with his sights on further education... yep, UK hip-hopper Dizzee Rascal is heading to Oxford University to expand his intellectual horizons...»
