Hot Chip are having a well-deserved year off following a successful 2008 that saw them released Made In The Dark followed by an all-conquering tour. Joe Goddard said to 6music recently that work on the new album has started and fans can expect to see a different direction: We’re kind of stepping things down a [...]

Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Max
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School Of Seven Bells are another band scheduled to play The Great Escape in Brighton next month. I reviewed their debut album, Alpinisms, last year and I described it as ‘a solid album with some brilliant ethereal-sounding moments.’ A few months later and I still stand by that statement. The album is full of brilliant [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Max
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Green Day will bring their 21st Century Breakdown to the UK in the autumn for a series of arena shows. The tour will mark the California trio’s first full tour in the UK for four and a half years and their first UK shows since their acclaimed concerts at the Milton Keynes Bowl, which were [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Max
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Graham Coxon has spoken about the upcoming Blur reunion shows, which will be in just over two months time (and to think they were first announced way back in December – time flies fast when you’re speculating). The guitarist, who releases a new solo album very soon, spoke to The Sun at the weekend and [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Max
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I came across a brilliant article today courtesy of Music Think Tank. In the article, they sum up why the industry is in such a terrible state in eleven bullet points. You can read the whole article here but I want to add a different sort of twist on it. You remember back in your [...]

Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Max
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