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July 12th, 2008

Amy Winehouse To Quit Touring In September? | Mitch Winehouse Speaks Out

Amy Winehouse’ problems have been well reported up to now. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that she is the musical artist who has had most press coverage on her personal problems ever. And the reporting of her personal problems sadly outweigh the amount of copy written about her singing career these […]

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July 9th, 2008

Oasis’ Noel Gallagher Criticises Radiohead | ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ Will Not Be Free

Radiohead have received almost nothing but praise for challenging music industry standards when they released In Rainbows on to the Internet last year, and invited people to pay what they wanted for the privilege of downloading the album.
In effect, this meant you could nab a brand new album by one of the best British […]

By Dave Parrack -- 2 comments

May 29th, 2008

Muse Working On Fifth Album | Band Not Sure About Conventional Release

The brilliant Muse have started working on songs for their next release, which should, if everything goes to plan, be their fifth studio album. However, the band aren’t yet sure about what form the release will take, be it a conventional album, a series of singles or even a drawn out rock opera!
Muse released Black […]

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May 20th, 2008

British Summer Festival Cancelled - Wax:On Live Organisers Blame Global Recession

The British summer festival season is almost upon us, but two pieces of news show that it may not be quite as good a year as normal on the scene.
Not only has one festival been canned, The Zutons have criticised the biggest of them all, Glastonbury, which I’ll be posting about later.
The Wax:On Live […]

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May 1st, 2008

Free Coldplay Single ‘Violet Hill’ Downloaded By 600,000 People In First 24 Hours

When Coldplay decided to let everyone know they were back by releasing the first single, Violet Hill, from new album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, as a free download, they must have known it would be huge. But I wonder if they knew quite how huge it would be, and in […]

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April 11th, 2008

Paul McCartney Planning Huge World Tour To Pay For Heather Mills Divorce Payout

Paul McCartney finally managed to get rid of the “one-legged bitch”, (his words not mine allegedly) Heather Mills last month, when she was awarded almost $50 million to shut up and go away.
Although she seems to be determined to keep herself in the press by bitching about McCartney at every opportunity, he seems to be […]

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April 3rd, 2008

Morrissey Receives Apology For Being Labelled A Racist - But Not From The NME

NME magazine published an interview with Morrissey at the end of last year where, amongst other things, he spoke about immigration. The comments he made seemed to be verging on racist, or condoning racism, but Morrissey insisted that they had been taken out of context and edited to show him in a bad light.
Tim Jonze, […]

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April 1st, 2008

Reading and Leeds Festival Line-Up: Metallica, Killers, Rage Against The Machine

Wow, what a trio of headliners that is! And that’s not all those punters lucky enough to already get tickets are going to be in for, as the full line-up of acts playing over the three days of the festival has been announced, and it’s a doozy.
Weekend tickets for the festival, held over two venues […]

By Dave Parrack -- 3 comments

March 27th, 2008

Is Mick Jagger Gay? - Rolling Stones Band Mate Keith Richards Questions Sexuality

Keith Richards has seen fit to question the sexuality of Rolling Stone band mate Mick Jagger, and after over 40 years of sharing sexual partners, there’s not anyone who would know better than Richards.
According to the NME, Richards gave an interview to GQ magazine in support of the release of Shine A Light, the Martin […]

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March 15th, 2008

The Feeling Live In Manchester Gig Review | Academy 1 - March 13th 2008

The Feeling are a band who are never going to be cool, never going to get on the cover of NME, and never going to be the next big thing.
But you know what? None of that matters, as they put out some incredibly well written, and well composed pop songs, and after seeing them […]

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