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The excitement of the Oscar nominations has barely settled when the stars will once again walk down the red carpet on Sunday night for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The actors and movies that find themselves nominated at Sunday night’s ceremony are a virtual carbon copy of Thursday’s Oscar nomination and should be a great indicator as…

With the band currently holed up in their chilli Ayrshire practice pad, it seems a good time to announce that the band will break from demoing the fifth album and set off for a slightly sunnier climate. That’s right the Biff, will be returning to the live stage this coming March for four shows along the Australian coast. The shows will take in Pert…

Elbow are in “no rush” to record a new album. Despite hoping to release a follow-up to Nationwide Mercury Prize winning record ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’, bassist Pete Turner says the band are taking their time with the release because they don’t enjoy working too hard.

Franz Ferdinand play their new songs on “a c**p upright piano” to make sure they sound good. The ‘Take Me Out’ hitmakers - whose third album, ‘Tonight: Franz Ferdinand’ is due for release next week - say stripping down their sound helps them figure out if they have written a potential hit.

Glasvegas are to work with Bobby Gillespie. James Allan, singer with the Scottish rockers, has been asked by the Primal Scream frontman to record a song for a tribute EP for Suicide singer Alan Vega’s 70th birthday.

In Flames are proud to announce a UK headline tour in April 2009 with support coming from FemaleFirst favourites Cancer Bats.. This comes right after the amazing headline tour which was seen over 60 000 people all across Europe and 4 shows in the UK.

Who remembers JLS? You know, those four lads who came second in this year’s X Factor… I know once you drop out of the show it’s pretty easy to vanish into oblivious, but for those cute kids it looks as though luck is on their side after being picked to join Lemar on his forthcoming tour! Lemar said “I was really impressed with JLS’s performances on…

Fresh from shaking up the UK charts and injecting a dose of Canadian hip hop fun with his hit single ‘Dangerous’ featuring Akon, Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall returns with his own version of The Paragons’ ‘The Tide Is High’, a 40-year-old Jamaican jingle that was remade by pop act Blondie in 1980. ‘Numba 1 (Tide Is High)’ is released on Februa…

It’s that time of the week again (the weekend!) and you might have a spare couple of pounds in your purse and wonder what you should treat yourself to after slogging away at work all week. Well don’t worry girls and boys, because I have the answer… you should give your ears a musical sexing with FemaleFirst’s single of the week which is going to …

Don’t you just hate it when you look forward to something so much yet you end up getting disappointed when the dream becomes a reality? Well that happened to me last night I’m afraid… I drove to Manchester Academy with butterflies in my tummy ready to see a band I had been waiting years, to see, and even better, I was interviewing the little metal …