Having just finished all of her obligatory appearances in the US, Lily Allen has holed up in a New York City apartment to write the follow-up to her breakthrough, Alright, Still. She’s again working with production duo Futurecut, but she’s in no hurry to get any product out, saying: “The songs I’ve written so far […]

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Depeche Mode frontman, Dave Gahan, is set to release his second solo album, entitled Hourglass this October. It’s the follow-up to 2003’s respectable offering, Paper Monsters, which proved that Gahan could actually write a tune without Martin Gore’s ever-presence. Gahan on the new record: “We were very aware of the importance of keeping urgency in […]

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Rivers Cumo posted on Weezer’s website two days ago that his band is “just polishing up a batch of songs for a recording session that is going to start at the beginning of July. This will be the final recording session for our 6th album which we aim to put out in the first half […]

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Paul McCartney is playing a “secret” show at Amoeba Records in Hollywood tomorrow night to promote Memory Almost Full– his new album on the Starbucks label, Hear Music. A limited number of wristbands are being given away at 12:30 p.m. at Amoeba, while 5 pairs are up for grabs at paulmccartney.com. Doors for the show […]

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With all the hoopla over the re-release of Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, you’d think the band would have a new record ready (despite last year’s Rather Ripped being far underrated). Sonic Youth has never really worked well in conjunction with the corporate machine, so it’s not really surprising that there’s no new record to promote. […]

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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 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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