The Walkmen - You & Me

I could review the next 5 Walkmen albums, and everytime I’d do it, the first thing I will think is “Is any song on it as good as The Rat?’ Perhaps its a bit unfair to have such high expectations, but well when you set the bar that high your kind of asking for it. Read more

Little Joy @ TT’s, Boston, 16.11.08

With their first album recently released by Rough Trade, Little Joy - the music-child of Los Hermanos’ Rodrigo Amarante and The Strokes’ Fabrizio Moretti - has taken up a modest tour introducing their new material to audiences throughout the States. Read more

Interview: Whiskycats

Manchester-based pentet Whiskycats are certainly a band who understand the phrase ‘elusive record deal’. The band have been gigging for four years, recorded an album with producing legend Jim Spencer, and even performed live on national television, on the T4 ‘battle of the bands’ style program Orange Act Unsigned. Read more

Lily Allen on celebrity ETC

Lily Allen has said that the current obsession with celebrity is unhealthy. And she’s not wrong, I’ve been saying this for years. Read more

US CD sales in record decline

CD sales continue to slump, especially in the US where analysts say the final quarter of 2008 could see the highest sales decline in the history of the physical format. US CD sales were falling a mid-teens percentage earlier in the year, but look to fall up to 27% in this quarter. The previous highest decline was 21% back in early 2007. Read more

Futureheads to tour

 The Futureheads begin their UK tour this weekend in London. The group release a digital only single ‘I Wouldn’t Be Like This If You Were Here’ on 8 Dec. Read more

Headliners booked for Rockness

Some of the headliners have been announced for next year’s Rockness festival. Well, a majority have. Read more

The Jesus Lizard reform

A band who really, definitely are reforming for 2009 are The Jesus Lizard, who have announced that they’ll play their first show in twelve years. The original line up will reunite for a one off series of live dates which begin with an appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties’ The Fans Strike Back at Minehead in May. Read more

JD Set unsigned competition opens

So, our Unsigned Month may have come to an end, but there are always more opportunities for new bands to promote themselves. Look, there’s another one right here. Read more

Five arrested over alleged ticketing scam

Five people have been arrested over a dodgy ticketing outfit called Xclusive Tickets who allegedly sold tickets so exclusive they didn’t actually exist. It’s thought over 4000 people paid for non-existent tickets to music festivals and events at the Beijing Olympics while the Xclusive business was in operation. Read more

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