In October of this year, The Wedding Present will play a series of shows commemorating the 20th anniversary of its debut album, George Best. On the British leg of the tour, the band will play the exact towns as on the original George Best tour. And, as part of the set each night, the classic […]

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Lily Allen and The Kooks have had an ongoing sparring match, ever since Allen slammed the band for taking itself too seriously last summer. But then Allen presumably had kissed and made up with a cover of The Kooks’ “Naive” on her “LDN” single. Well, Kooks singer Luke Pritchard has turned around and slagged off […]

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Billboard recently spoke with Cursive leader Tim Kasher about the odd billing of his band with an alt-metal tour: “I questioned it at first and was kind of intimidated,” Kasher tells Billboard.com. “Like, why would we play a metal show? But I kind of like the idea of where they’re going with it. I met […]

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If you can close your eyes and pretend that this album isn’t just some thinly veiled cash-cow by three people who would just as soon never look at each other as record music together, then you can almost believe it was created by a great noisy rock band in its underground heyday. So, putting all […]

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