Backstage at the Glastonbury Festival last weekend, Arctic Monkeys‘ singer/guitarist, Alex Turner, told the Mirror tabloid that he, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal, and the Klaxons’ James Righton have formed a supergroup. Now, given that it’s the Mirror and that Turner routinely takes the piss out of the media, the chances of this being true are […]

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Not exactly earth shattering news, but A Northern Soul balladeers The Verve will regroup with its original line-up intact. I guess seven years is just about how long it takes for musicians to become fully humbled. Richard Ashcroft’s solo career didn’t exactly take off, but the official reason for the reformation is “for the joy […]

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I can understand hating a band. I hate plenty (hello Wilco, hello Flaming Lips). So, NME writer Mark Beaumont slags off Interpol with some pretty harsh words in a recent piece. Slagging off Interpol in and of itself is not a big deal. So Beaumont hates Interpol…who cares? But here’s the kicker: He loves Editors. […]

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I just don’t know how to feel about Cure news at this point. For a band that started threatening to break up back in 1985, The Cure refuses to go away. When was the last great Cure record? 1989. That was almost 20 years ago. Not a good sign for things to come. The band’s […]

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I’ll believe this when I see it, but, reportedly, the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin are in talks to perform at a memorial concert for Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun in London: “And no-one can quite believe it, but during discussions about the concert they all gave the green light to a tour if […]

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Ferry’s new album of Bob Dylan covers, Dylanesque, which sounds much stranger than it actually is, comes out tomorrow, and he’s going to be in New York to perform on The Late Show with David Letterman. The following day he will be signing the new record at J&R Music World at 12:30 p.m. http://www.bryanferry.com/

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Since hyped British artists rarely make a dent stateside, it’s somewhat surprising that Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black has not only gone gold over here but has been hovering in the Top 10 for weeks now. More touring is a record company’s only strategy for the cusp of success. Winehouse is not exactly packing in […]

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