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Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis might just have let the cat - the cat in this case being one Kylie Minogue - out of the bag - the bag being, um, his mouth - by stating that the pop pixie is to headline his festival's Sunday night - said festival being Glastonbury... and we've come full circle...»
Welsh indie oddballs Gorky's Zygotic Mynci have confirmed their disbanding on their official website...»
I seem to remember the Monkey Island of a year or so ago, at some indie-rawk show or other, regaling all with spoken-wordisms over spluttering guitars and drums full of palpitations. That band was full of energy – taut and wound, granted, but almost certain to be unleashed sooner than imminently in a flood – yet this Monkey Island, the very same by my reckoning, initially sounds like an entirely different act...»
DJ Shadow is to play a handful of dates around the time of his appearances at Wireless and Creamfields...»
Why play seventeen notes when two will do? Well, now you can find out, as Gut are to release a double-disc prog-rock compilation next month...»
Desmond Dekker has died at the age of 64. »
Britney Spears' marriage to upcoming rapper (LMAO... sorry) Kevin Federline is apparently on the rocks. So rocky are said rocks, in fact, that the pair are essentially living apart...»
A US radio presenter has accused the Red Hot Chili Peppers of plagiarism, claiming that the band's 'Dani California' single is near identical to Tom Petty's 'Mary Jane's Last Dance'...»
News from the great continent to our west: rapper Beanie Sigel has suffered two gunshot wounds during an attempted robbery this morning...»
Write England's official World Cup song they may have done, but indie veterans Embrace have - so far - been snubbed for actual tickets...»
Gorillaz, Kaiser Chiefs and New Order are among the winners at this year's Ivor Novello Awards...»
Open thy arms, London mortals, and embrace a Never-everinmybed-Land legend - it could well come to pass that his Royal Highvoicedness Michael Jackson sets up shop in our own capital...»
Remember: everything’s relative. You can score 39 goals a season in some old fourth division team’s B squad, but flop terribly once some plucky Championship manager takes a chance on your shooting boots. Likewise, you can be the dreariest, most mind-numbingly coffee-table dinner-party bland band on the planet one minute, and then you can leave your most hardened haters singing your relative praises...»
Roddy Woomble's previously reported solo album will be called My Secret Is My Silence. The record will be released on July 24th, and the Idlewild singer will tour in support...»
Welsh nu-metal types Lostprophets return with a new single next month. 'Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)' is released via Visible Noise on June 19th. The title suggests someone has been listening to Refused, non...»
Although there’s little in Unicorn’s ten-track, 17-minute squall that rings with any true originality, its makers do at least translate their renowned live performances to tape without losing much in the way of either bloody aggression or accomplished musicianship...»
It comes but one way, served bright green – or is this yellow? – on vinyl so thick one could conceivably bring down low-flying aircraft with a stray stretch from sleeve to turntable...»
The BBC missed a trick when they opted to use Sigur Ros to soundtrack the slow-motion footage of bats and foxes and polar bears and whatever that featured in their successful series, Planet Earth...»
Still-popular pop-types New Order have announced a few dates for later this year...»
London's most passionate and wired rock and roll band have been shooting the shit in the direction of a fellow set of young pretenders, those darn
South-coast metallers of no little noise Johnny Truant have cancelled three UK shows in order to perform at a festival in Canada...»
Ricky Wilson, singer in the Kaiser Chiefs, was struck by a car while crossing a road in his hometown of Leeds, it has been revealed...»
All-conquering Eurovision Fins Lordi - they of masks and pop-metal - have been defended by their country's ambassador to the UK following accusations that the band are Satanists...»
Regular no-shows at, um, shows Babyshambles have parted company with Rough Trade, the label that released their much-delayed and ultimately shite Down In Albion long-player last year...»
A punk band with pop at its core, The Plastic Constellations’ Modus Operandi appears to be combining sing-along, gang-vocal choruses with lyrics just the right side of ambiguous and verses characterised by intelligent breakdowns...»
How best to pitch The Black Heart Procession to the absolute beginner? Do we prefix their wondrously intoxicating music with adjectives like ‘noir’ or ‘bewitching’? Do we dress their neo-gothic folksy indie up as The Next Big thing for the sake of a single feature piece? No, and no again: the only way to truly get a proper sense of the sound these Californians conjure so very magically is to hear it for yourself...»
Another seven days, another seventy-two hours at a holiday park, nothing but that now-familiar hum of amplified indie-rock for an accompaniment to dance-machine hedonism and hot dog-munching air-hockeying. Yes boys, girls, ladies and germs, All Tomorrow’s Parties’ The United Sounds Of ATP rears its bearded face once more...»
Big Business are in the UK kinda now, undertaking a series of dates around their appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties this Sunday. Frankly, you'd be pretty foolish not to wrap your listening gear around their worthwhile rock wares...»
Texan horror-core outfit (well whadda you wanna call 'em?) The Paper Chase have cancelled their UK dates for this week...»
Strange-faced spoon bender and Exeter City fan Uri Geller has splashed his cutlery cash all over a house formerly owned by Elvis Presley...»
