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Glasto, gold discs, America, the world. "It is pretty surreal what’s happened but, at the same time I can’t say we’re really disillusioned with it all; that it hasn’t been as good as we expected and we were expecting it to be all very bling." So what are Keane's hopes and fears now?»
The Prodigy are set to gun down the UK with a new tour in support of their first LP in seven years.»
Muse release a special Glasto single for charity!»
Defence lawyers for Michael Jackson have denied claims that the singer imprisoned a teenage boy and his family, enticing him with alcohol and abusing him.»
For the third year, Move is worryingly free from mud, despite The North’s best attempts to dissolve the plastic sheeting that carpets Old Trafford Cricket Ground. Having still got the stains from Glasto on our shoes, it’s not for us to complain and so with its strongest line-up yet, we descend upon Manchester for the ultimate alternative to T in the Park.»
Where most newly signed indie bands would implode with fear at a nearly-full arena, watching their dubious indie-jibe fall on its media-hyped arse, The Boxer Rebellion’s music takes on other-wordly new bounds amid Wembley’s delay-inducing acoustics.»
Is it a cult? Is it a mushroom induced reworking of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? Or is this the soundtrack to a Lloyd Webber musical chewing on Starbust and spitting sunshine in the wind?»
We're interviewing The Cure and we wanna know what YOU have always wanted to ask Robert Smith! The band play at next Friday's Virgin Trains Move, in Manchester. Keane and Elbow will be there too.»
Mean Fiddler's top man speaks on the future of Glasto.»
Traumatic, dramatic, tragic and absurd don't quite cover the realms in which The Lost Riots has been created. Following everything, can Hope of the States really deliver a record worthy of place in everybody's heart?»
In support of War on Want and Unite Against Facism, VirtualFestivals and Glasto's Left Field bring a little slice of the festival to Brixton this Saturday. Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock and The Cooper Temple Clause top the five pound bill.»
The Mondays reform but only for one Sunday.»
Morrissey celebrated a blistering start to Meltdown by slamming former label EMI. The opening night was lacking any Libertines, but was full of shirt flying action and some old favourites.»
This is mercurial. The magnetism and dynamic energy is pure festival magic. This is The Music’s finest hour.»
A hypnotising piece of psalm metal from Britain's rock monarchy.»
Ocean Colour Scene have had a number of early mastertapes stolen from a lock up in Birmingham.»
BigNoiseMusic.com is Oxfam's charity music download service and it launches this week.»
Pixies reformed. Muse played in daylight. Bright Eyes stormed the second stage. Radiohead ended their world tour. The Cure were even fatter than the Pixies. The Flaming Lips were late. The Cooper Temple Clause were monumental. Temperatures soared. There was no rubbish on the floor. Coachella was the stuff of dreams.»
The only festival that comes close to Benicassim is Glasto, and if you're not going there, then you've got the perfect excuse to sun yourself for a week in August. Brian Wilson joins Franz Ferdinand, Air, Chemical Brothers and many more for the festival's tenth anniversary.»
Franz Ferdinand feature in Britain’s most sexually explicit mainstream film, ever.»
Anyone who's had nightmares about the boy from The Snowman doing Travis karaoke will be instantly at home with the promise of Keane. Ignoring the hype and judging it on the songs, just how does this record stand up against great debuts of the past?»
For many, this is the gig of a lifetime... and by the time Morrissey's shirt comes off for the second time at the end of the encore, one thing's clear: he's American alright.»
Few can claim the status that Morrissey holds, but that was all a long time ago. With the mountain of media coverage mounting, how does his solo comeback single actually rate?»
Like your first condom-splitting shag, the end of InMe can’t come quickly enough. But with their many legions of fans only just reaching puberty, the cookie might not be crumbling into a limp biscuit just yet.»
As Reading Weekend tickets sell out four months before the event, we ask: 'Haven't you people got anything better to do on your bank holiday weekend?'»
All eyes are fixed on front-girl, Deah who streams around, her supermodel legs and plaited hair flying all over the show. Having won Radio 1’s unsigned competition and been short listed for Glastonbury, they’re here to rub you up, hose you down and have you there on the floor.»
In the latest twist to the Glasto ticket saga, it seems Michael Eavis looks set to take up our suggestion of using a lottery system to distribute tickets.»
