It’s that time of year again. The Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominees have been announced. The Mercury Prize honours the best British or Irish album of the year. Last year, Alt-J won for their excellent debut album, An Awesome Wave. This...
I’m a fan of both Queens of the Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys. I was curious when Arctic Monkeys teamed with QOTSA singer Josh Homme for production of their Humbug and AM albums. What’s even more curious – this cover...
We’re one week away from the North American release of the fifth Arctic Monkeys’ album, AM, which means it’s probably already on the Internet. Since we don’t post leaked or illegal things, you’ll have to make do with the latest...
One of my favourite songs this year is the new Arctic Monkeys’ track, Do I Wanna Know?. I also happen to love the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge segment, where they get a band to cover a popular song by...
Nine Inch Nails released Copy of A over the weekend – a new track from their upcoming Hesitation Marks album. Much like Came Back Haunted, you want to listen to this as loud as you can right now, because it...
…and won’t be seeing Frank Ocean or Azealia Banks – who have both dropped out of this year’s festival because of throat infections. Miguel has been added in place of Frank Ocean. To keep track of everything happening @ Osheaga follow...
We caught Irish folk rock band Villagers a couple of times at NXNE, including a solo acoustic set. They have a new video for a track off of their sophomore album, Away Land. The track is Earthly Pleasures, which Martians...
Disclaimer: I love pretty much all things Arctic Monkeys. There’s a B-side to Do I Wanna Know? that is floating around. It’s called 2013 and HEY – that’s this year! This September 10, the band will also release their 5th...
Kick off your morning and your week with some straight forward rock from J. Roddy Walston & The Business, and their new track Heavy Bells. The track is lifted from their upcoming third album, Essential Tremors (which is only the...
Jay-Z took to this thing called the Information Super Highway Internet and had a chat with some fans on Twitter. Someone wisely asked what the heck is going on with his unreleased track, Dead Presidents 3. He replied “Just [Blaze]...
Glastonbury came and went. Sadly, we weren’t there – so we don’t have anything clever to say about it this morning. But, thankfully, a rag-tag bunch of major media brands were there to cover the festival, and they’ve got lots...
Arctic Monkeys have released a video for their new song Do I Wanna Know? And it is perfectly analogous to the song itself – in that you will be very handsomely rewarded for you patience. Enjoy.
Austin City Limits Announces 2013 Line Up The other Austin, Texas festival – Austin City Limits – has announced the line up for their Coachella-inspired double festival weekend, kicking off October 4-6 and October 11-13 at Zilker Park. The headliners...
Glastonbury aka England’s contribution to kick ass festivals (of which they have many) have revealed parts of their 2013 line up. They took 2012 off (the damn year I lived there!) – did they return with a bang? Um, yes!...
Justin Timberlake Sells Nearly A Million Albums in Week 1 I don’t know what the industry projections were, but Justin Timberlake has turned the clock back to the N Sync days – his hair is now curly and stupid looking...
