Album Review: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - 'Smoking In Heaven'

What’s shocking about the Durham siblings’ band isn’t that their youngest member is still a teenager, but the fact that they’re still on only their second album. Festival stalwarts and vintage sonics trailblazers, their no-fuss rhythm and blues has little truck with reinventing the wheel and fizzes with the simple joy of creation. The soft...

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Paris Hilton's New Album Has A "Dance And Club" Sound

Reality star turned singer Paris Hilton is still wrapping-up work on her next album and reveals she's going in a "different direction" with her new songs. It's five years since the socialite released her debut Paris and the sequel should be in stores before the year ends. On how the new album is shaping-up so far, Paris said: "I have a recording...

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Sasquatch 2011: k-os, Live In Concert

A genre-hating musician with roots everywhere from Toronto to Trinidad, k-os lets his music sprawl across the disparate worlds of hip-hop, reggae, electronic music, indie rock, soul and so on. As such, it's tough to place him within any given scene — which is no doubt what he had in mind — but k-os' socially conscious songwriting and charisma...

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Kate Bush has no plans to tour, but almost finished new album

The reclusive singer has revealed that she is too focused on the new material to hit the road, but she has almost finished writing her new album. Kate Bush ...

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LETARGIA - ‘In Embraces Of Silence’ Music Video Released

Ukrainian atmospheric melodic death metallers LETARGIA have released the official music video for the track ‘In Embraces Of Silence’ from the album The Burden Of Human Passions, released on March 31st 2010 via Grailight Productions. Watch the video below: Continue reading ...

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CSS' new album to feature Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie

CSS are to return with a new album and live shows in August – and their comeback single will feature Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie. The Brazilian band will release their third album, 'La Liberación', on August 21. It was produced by bandmember Adriano Cintra – as was their self-titled debut album, released in the UK on 2006, and 2008's...

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Pulp perform first concert in 9 years

 In these days of reuniting pop bands, Pulp are the latest to begin their comeback trail after playing their first concert in nine years. The reformed band were in Toulouse, France for an intimate concert last night before their huge list of summer festival appearances. The rockers, who got back together last year, played to a rapturous...

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Lenny Kravitz Set To Release New Album This Summer

Lenny Kravitz has announced the release of a new album for this summer. The singer/guitarist will release his ninth studio album, entitled Black And White America, on August 30. The record will be preceded by the single, "Stand," which hits radio on June 6. The follow-up to 2008's It Is Time For A Love Revolution will be Kravitz's first release...

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Kate Bush writing new album

 Kate Bush is working on a new record. The 'Hounds of Love' singer has just released 'The Director's Cut' which saw her re-record tracks from her 'Sensual World' and 'Red Shoes' albums, but said she is also writing her first original material since 2005's 'Aerial'. She told BBC Radio 6: "I'm working on a new record. It's all kinds of...

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Music Review: Zoobombs - La Vie En Jupon

I started writing because I had something to say. It was all very organic at first, very righteous and very pure. I didn't worry much about what other people thought. I just pumped out whatever bullshit there was rolling around in my head. I didn't care what it came out as; I didn't mind if I sounded like an emotional basketcase or a bullshit artist. I didn't mind if I had my facts right. I wrote to write; I did it because it...

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Taylor Swift wrote a song in an airport toilet

Country music starlet Taylor Swift has proved that she can literally write a song anywhere as she admits she once penned some lyrics in an airport bathroom. The Story of Us singer says an idea for a tune can come to her at any time, so she has to quickly write her ideas down before she forgets them. She told MTV: 'The weirdest place I have...

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Review: Brad Paisley’s ‘This Is Country Music’

Calling an album “This Is Country Music” is rather clever in its simplicity, decisively answering a hotly debated topic before anyone else has a definitive say. What is country music? Well, Brad Paisley will tell you: There’s a lot of banjo and steel guitar, a few songs about love, and obviously, Clint Eastwood is involved. And if someone’s...

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Def Leppard guitarist’s Manraze: new album details revealed

Like a mixture of dangerous chemicals, equal parts guitarist extraordinaire, rudeboy rock drummer, and the righteous rhythms of a badass bass player and all together you have one hell of an explosive combination. Add to this concoction the experience of selling 75 million records and the attitude that comes from being at the top of ...

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Grammy Award-winning Artist Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley Joins The Line-up Of 'reggae 4 Japan' Benefit Concert In New York

Three-time Grammy Award-Winning artist Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley has officially joined the line-up of "Reggae 4 Japan," a benefit concert to support the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief Effort of the American Red Cross on June 5, 2011 at the York College Performing Arts Center in Queens, New York. The addition of this world-renowned...

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Music Review: Bowling For Soup - Fishin' For Woos

Bowling For Soup started out as a group of snot-nosed young 'uns doing punky power pop anthems like "1985," which compares to the Fountains of Wayne classic "Stacy's Mom" from way back in 2003. The band has always been about rambunctious fun, never taking itself seriously. Continue reading ...

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EMI Inks Deal With Another Digital Music Service

EMI has apparently been a busy label lately, reportedly signing licensing deals with Spotify and Apple's rumored cloud-based music service. And Thursday EMI announced a deal with eMusic. Members of the digital music service will now have access to more than 15,000 albums from EMI's catalog, including music from artists like Brian Eno, Radiohead (who left EMI a few years back), the Beastie Boys, Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem. Continue...

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Music Review: Mickey Newbury - An American Trilogy

Mickey Newbury is a forgotten gem in the annals of American singer/songwriters. His premature death in 2002 at the age of 62 contributed to his music disappearing into the musical mists of time. He is best remembered for his only hit single, “An American Trilogy,” which was released during late 1971. The song would also become an integral part of Elvis Presley’s stage act for the last 15 years of his life and, unfortunately, became...

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Muse: New Album Work Starts In September

Muse have revealed they're set to start working on their next album later this year, with a suggestion of "softer" new material. Speaking to NME, drummer Dominic Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenholme explained the follow up to 'The Resistance' is planned for 2012. "Matt showed me a few chords recently," Howard said. "Who knows, it might be softer rock, but then it's up to me and Chris to make it heavy again. A heavy rock lullaby!...

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John Legend wants to help Cheryl Cole launch her music career in the US

John Legend wants to help Cheryl Cole launch her music career in the US. The 'Save Room' singer is a huge fan of the new judge of 'The X Factor' US, and although he won't be tuning in to watch the show, he has offered to her establish her as a solo star in America. He said: 'Whatever Cheryl needs, I'm glad to help. But I'm sure she will be fine. 't's big her getting the job on 'X Factor' USA. A lot of people don't know her...

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Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is reportedly investing $100 million into a Broadway musical of his life

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is reportedly investing $100 million into a Broadway musical of his life. The 81-year-old music mogul ' the creator of the legendary music label, widely regarded as the home of soul music ' is developing the production to tell the true story on the inception and running of the label, which had 110 top 10 hits in the US between 1961 and 1971. Continue reading ...

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Beyonce Knowles debuts music video

The singer debuted the video for her new single Run the World (Girls) last night, during television show American idol. She is renowned for completing fast-paced dance routines dressed in funky costumes in her promos, and this one is no different. In it, the star is seen leading a tribe of women in a post-apocalyptic world. Dressed in amazing haute couture pieces, the group fight off an opposing army in Africa. Continue reading...

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Virgin Steele Posts "God Of Violence Kill" Music Video Online

New York heavy metal act Virgin Steele has posted its new music video online. The video was comprised for the track "God Of Violence Kill", which is featured as a bonus track on the group's "Noble Savage" reissue. Continue reading ...

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Music on the Mount

AS A BIG thank you to the local community and all its supporters and friends, St Michael's Mount will open its doors free of charge on Sunday for its sixth annual Music on the Mount event. Organised entirely by the islanders, the festival celebrates every kind of music with a programme of events as rich and varied as the history of the Mount itself. Throughout the day visitors will be treated to live music and dance from swing...

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Music in Marazion tonight

TALENTED local band and school choir will feature in a charity concert at Marazion Community Centre tonight at 7.30pm. They are the popular Porthleven Town Band under musical director Francis Ralph and the St Hilary infants school choir conducted by Louise Gummer. Admission is £3 (children £1). It is in aid of the Hydrotherapy Pool Appeal project at the John Daniel Centre at Heamoor. "For several years the local committee has...

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Paul McCartney working on pre-rock covers album

Sir Paul McCartney says his next album will feature the sort of music that people can wind down to and calls it ''get-home-from-work-music''. Sir Paul McCartney is making a record of his "dad's style of music." The 68-year-old former Beatles musician is recording a number of covers of tracks from the pre-rock era which remind him of his father's...

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Ke$ha Is Planning '70s Rock And Roll Album

In an interview with MTV, Ke$sha said that her next album will feature a distinct change in direction from what we've heard from her before. The singer wants to make a 70s rock and roll record, and said: "For the next album, I've been working on writing on the road, but as far as a sound, I just know its gonna be balls out, irreverent rock...

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Dark Side of the Moon album cover voted greatest of all time

Dark Side of the Moon: The greatest album cover of all timeFloyd’s top-ranked cover was one of many created for the band by design team Hipgnosis and featured no lettering. The 1973 album is one of the biggest sellers of all time. It pipped Nirvana’s Nevermind in a poll of musicians and rock fans for music website MusicRadar.com. ‘The Dark...

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Kaiser Chiefs and James For Hard Rock Calling

  More acts have been added to this year's Hard Rock Calling at Hyde Park. Joining The Killers on Friday June 24 will be Kaiser Chiefs and James. It's a return to the UK live circuit for the Leeds quintet, while Mancuncian heroes James will be unleashing some classics.Meanwhile, Pete Wentz's new band Black Cards made their UK festival...

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My Chemical Romance: 'We did 'Glee' to do the pop world some damage

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way has said the band let their single 'Sing' be featured on Glee in order to "do some damage" to the world of pop music. Speaking to the News Of The World, Way also said the band had deliberately penned pop songs for their album 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' in order to be "subversive." Asked...

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Avenged Sevenfold couldn’t co-exist with Portnoy

Avenged Sevenfold’s frontman M Shadows says that ex- Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy could never have been a permanent replacement for the Rev. Portnoy stepped into the breech after the death of original member Jimmy ‘The Rev’ Sullivan in 2009, recorded their 2010 album Nightmare and played on the subsequent tour, but relationships became...

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Frankie & The Heartstrings new single and more dates

Sunderland's Frankie & The Heartstrings release their new single That Postcard this week on PopSex Ltd / Wichita Recordings as they hit the road for a string of UK shows. The band are pleased to announce a headline show for London on 23rd September at ULU, plus their return to Reading & Leeds festivals in August following their...

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Cauldron Release New Music Video

Canadian heavy metal power trio Cauldron have released the video for their new single, “All or Nothing,” taken from the band’s sophomore album, Burning Fortune. Watch the clip below. Commented singer/bassist Jason Decay: “The video is basically a concentrated day, or a final straw in the life of Cauldron. We based the concept around the...

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AEROSMITH Says No To American Idol Gig

According to the Bostonherald.com's Inside Track, AEROSMITH, fronted by new American Idol judge Steven Tyler, told the show’s producers last night to Dream On - the Bad Boys of Boston refuse to reunite onstage during the May 26 finale of the Fox TV singing contest. Sources close to the band told the Track that the four other members...

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The 10 Mightiest Intros In Metal

Black Sabbath, ‘War Pigs’ Such powerful groove, such laid-back stances, such a whirling siren – these metal masters know full well you’ll keep waiting for the full metal shot in the face and unrivalled Ozzy wailing. continued... Metallica, ‘Seek And Destroy’ Majestic, epic, iconic and recognisable – Metallica have a whole back catalogue of incredible intros, but when this old tune wails across a venue/field it sends crowds into...

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Lady Gaga performed new single 'Judas' at Cannes Film Festival yesterday

Lady Gaga performed her single 'Judas' at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday (11.05.11). Despite the 'Bad Romance' hitmaker's record-breaking 'Monster Ball Tour' concluding in Mexico last week the singer hasn't stopped performing, appearing onstage at the event in a Matador styled black and gold outfit, which was completed with a red cape...

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REVIEW - WILD BEATS: SMOTHER

On last album Two Dancers, their favourite themes were love, lust, sex and violence, with front man Hayden Thorpe’s falsetto swooping and swooning through the tracks - almost aggressively at times. These are just a few things that made the band many of the artists’ favourite to win last year’s Mercury Music Prize. In the end The xx snaffled...

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Music Review: Megson - Take Yourself A Wife

I first "discovered" this brilliant London, England-based folk music duo at a gig organized by a local gig-booking group called (shameless plug) Warthog Promotions, based at the nearby village of Lowdham (in England).Megson are a husband/wife duo, consisting of Stu Hanna and Debbie Hanna-Palmer. Take Yourself A Wife is their third album,...

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Undertaker Of The Damned Announces New Album "Lords Of The Extreme Mockery"

Chile's Undertaker of the Damned has announced the band's second full-length album will be titled "Lords of the Extreme Mockery." A new song from the album, titled "The Horde of Dibbuk," can be heard in the player below. Undertaker of the Damned - The horde of Dibbuk by Australis Records The album's track listing is as follows: 1. The Horde of Dibbuk 2. Nest of Vipers 3. False Creed 4. Emperors of Life 5. Lords of the...

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DJ Shadow’s new album 'The Less You Know The Better' set for September release

DJ Shadow has announced that he will release his fourth studio album 'The Less You Know The Better' on September 5. The album is the follow up to 2006’s 'The Outsider' and is preceded by a single 'I Gotta Rokk’, which was released as part of a new six track E.P last night (May 10). You can hear the single on music blog website Somekindofawesome.com...

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Lostprophets begin recording new album in Hollywood

The Welsh rockers are currently holed-up in the NRG Recording Studios in Los Angeles working on the follow-up to 2010's 'The Betrayed'. Andrews has previously worked with the likes of A Perfect Circle, Tenacious D and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Writing on his blog at Web.me.com/kenandrews, Andrews stated: "Lostprophets approached me in...

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Google Music To Be Unveiled Today May 10

Google is set to launch a new cloud-based music service, Google Music, at its I/O conference today (May 10). The service will be similar to one offered by Amazon, but will enable users to store up to 20,000 songs without charge. Amazon only allow people to store around 2,000 songs before they have to pay a subscription fee for access to...

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Interview: Gordon Barr talks to Tulisa of N-Dubz

Urban group N-Dubz make their Metro Radio Arena debut on April 22. Entertainment Editor Gordon Barr poses a few questions to Tulisa Your first ever arena tour – how does that make you feel? It’s crazy. I mean the fact we’re selling out and playing to arenas is such an achievement in itself, but we’re also the first UK urban act to do an...

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Kasabian city concert sells out in minutes

ARENA rock giants Kasabian have sold out an intimate concert at the O2 Academy Sheffield in nine minutes - making them one of the fastest-selling bands at the venue, writes digital editor Geraham Walker. And these lucky guitar-playing fans at the front of the queue – who queued all night and entertained others with Kasabian songs – said...

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Kate Bush new album inspired by fertiliser

The 'Wuthering Heights' singer has revealed she has experienced a flow of creativity since she rested a bag of organic bone meal ' a garden fertiliser created from ground animal bones ' on her piano. And it could lead to her releasing her first studio album since 2005's 'Aerial'. In an interview on British station BBC Radio 4, she said:...

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Joss Stone Announces New Album

Stone'd Records & Surfdog Records are proud to announce their partnership to release Joss Stone's next album, LP1 on July 26, 2011. As a world-renowned soul singer who Smokey Robinson calls "Aretha Joplin," Joss has sold over 11 million records globally. Having just turned 24, Joss has already amassed a career's worth of successes. She...

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New Jersey Rock History: More Than Big Hair and the Boss

IN “Jersey Rocks: A History of Rock & Roll in the Garden State,” a new exhibition at the Morris Museum in Morristown that will run through Sept. 5, the background music may be as interesting for some visitors as the 400 or so objects on display. “Stacy’s Mom,” the 2003 hit by the pop band Fountains of Wayne, whose front man, Adam Schlesinger,...

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