Liam Frost and the Slowdown family are amongst the latest acts to added to this year’s Somerset House bill.The Manchester based singer/songwriter and his band will support Elbow on July 13 during the annual summer series in London.Also joining the line up are Fat Freddy’s Drop who will play a show on July 8 joining […]

Splendour in the Grass (Belongil Fields, Byron Bay) has made it’s third and final line up announcement. Bands added for Saturday July 22nd are Mogwai, Dungen, Something For Kate, TZU, Mos Def, Tex Perkins, Lior, Bob Evans, The Predators, Angus and Julia Stone and Raz Bin Sam and the Lion I Band.Line up additions for […]

The last song ever written Johnny Cash will be included on the album ‘American V: A Hundred Highways’, to be released in July. In the months before his death on 12 September 2003, Cash teamed up with producer Rick Rubin to record new material. Cash reinterprets works as diverse as Hank Williams’ ‘On The Evening […]

The Cure are to re-master and re-release another three albums from their back catalogue in August. 1984s The Top will come in its original format plus an extra disc with 17 extra tracks. 1985s The Head on the Door and 1987s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me will both come in their original formats and […]

Despite being on announcing a year off, David Bowie made a surprise guest appearance at a David Gilmour gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall last night (May 29th) The two David’s performed classic Pink Floyd tracks Arnold Layne and Comfortably Numb. David Crosby and Graham Nash were other special guests who also performed a Floyd […]

Paul Simon wowed fans including Billy Bragg with a secret show before delighted fans in London on May 25.The star premiered his new album ‘Surprise‘ at The Bloomsbury Theatre in the West End. He played four tracks from the Brian Eno-produced record – ‘Outrageous’, ‘How Can You Live In The Northeast?’, ‘Father And Daughter’ and […]

Guns n’ Roses have announced details of a full UK tour, their first since 1993.The band, led by frontman Axl Rose, will play their biggest trek on these shores for years in July, kicking off at Sheffield’s Hallam FM Arena on July 18, support will come from Bullet For My Valentine.Following on from their recent […]

PJ Harvey performed brand new tracks at the Guardian festival, Hay-on-Wye over the weekend. In her only live appearance this year, Polly took the piano and explained to the crowd “I’ve never played the piano in front of people before, so I’m incredibly nervous. Every time I play a duff note, I’m going to pull […]

Finnish melodic death metallers Omnium Gatherum have posted the following message at their official website:“The new vocalist of Omnium Gatherum is Jukka Pelkonen, also known as the ‘J’, from the band called Elenium.Jukka and ‘The New OG‘ will do its debut gig at Finnish Tuska Open Air Metal Festival after party at Gloria, Helsinki on […]

Former Anthrax guitarist Paul Crook has posted some pictures and video footage from VH1’s Rock Honors Show at the band’s official website featuring guitarist Scott Ian playing bass on a cover of the Kiss classic ‘God Of Thunder’. Go to this location to check the material out.