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Prepare to be swept away by a summer’s evening of music, atmosphere and history as the stunning Hampton Court Palace Festival, supported by Sky, returns for 2009. Now in its 17th year, this unique series of concerts is a firm fixture in the summer Festival diary. With an eclectic mix of performances from world-famous musical artists, the most…

Heartless Bastards are Erika Wennerstrom (vocals, guitar), Jesse Ebaugh (bass) and Dave Colvin (drums). The story starts in Dayton, Ohio, where Wennerstrom found the name on a multiple choice video trivia game at a bar.As a songwriting teenager during a time when GBV and Brainiac were packing local bars and three of The Breeders were still in town,…

Manic Street Preachers return this year with their ninth studio album, Journal For Plague Lovers released on May 18th on Columbia Records.Produced by Steve Albini and recorded live at Rockfield Studios in Wales during the Winter of 2008, the album features lyrics left behind by former guitarist Richey Edwards across all 13 new tracks. An original p…

Fanfarlo have announced UK tour dates to support their debut album.’Reservoir’ is released on the Raffle Bat label on May 25, and will proceed the double A-side single ‘Drowning Men’/'Sand And Ice’ on May 4.Tour dates:APRIL
30 Glasgow Hinterland FestivalMAY
14 Brighton Great Escape
17 Colchester Arts Centre
18 She…

Yet more big names have been added to the line-up of this year’s Underage Festival.The Horrors, Santigold and Patrick Wolf will play London’s Victoria Park on Sunday 2nd August. The event is exclusively for 14 to 18 year olds, and runs from 11am to 8pm.Other artists already confirmed are Mystery Jets, Flashguns, Lion Club, Lo-Fi Culture S…

Godzilla guitar riffs battle broken junk-store keyboards, while huge choruses smash into unhinged freak-outs. Constantly striving for new musical territory, the band are putting innovation, energy and fun back into rock n roll.Their flamboyant, wall shaking live shows are rammed with a patchwork crowd of rockers, indie kids, electro nerds and ugly …

Holy Fuck are set to tour England and Scotland this May.The dates are:May
8 Oxford Academy
9 Canterbury Farmhouse
10 Manchester Academy 3
11 Glasgow Oran Mor
12 Birmingham Academy 2
13 Liverpool Academy 2
14 London Scala
15 Brighton Great Escape Festival
17 All Tomorrow’s Parties The shows will follow the band’s Europe…

Brick & Lace, also known as Nyanda and Nailah Thorbourne, are an R&B sister act from Jamaica. Having already enjoyed success internationally with their debut album, Love is Wicked, I caught up with the duo to find out a bit more about them. Hi girls. What have you been up to lately?Well we have been travelling all over the globe p…

Glasgow based alt-rockers Twin Atlantic are set to begin work on their forthcoming mini-album in Los Angeles, California. The as yet untitled release due out this summer will be produced by John Travis (The Answer, Kid Rock, Sugar Ray), in sessions that will see the band remain in California until the end of April. Singer Sam McTrusty said “We are …

The son of American music stars James Taylor and Carly Simon, Benjamin Taylor’s whole life has so far centred on musicianship and songwriting. The budding folk artist is so confident in his abilities that he claims to have outlined his own genre.Kung Folk is Taylor’s uniquely convoluted vision of how life and love entwine and The Killin…