Produced by  Gavin Monaghan (Travis, Editors and Kings of Leon), Low Hundreds is the follow up to the critically acclaimed single January Blues.
The Lights have featured on numerous BBC regional playlists before hitting the radar of Janice Long’s BBC Radio 2 show, resulting in the band performing a live set on air in early summer, [...]

Genre-smashing musical pioneers Goldfrapp announce their brand new single ‘Rocket’ to be released through Mute on 8th March 2010. Fizzy with inspiration, ‘Rocket’ is a goose-bump brilliant tune and is taken from the duo’s fifth album ‘Head First’, released on 22nd March. <!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm

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“I was still working the drugs out of my system,” Eminem has admitted, acknowledging the weaknesses of his “jokey”, critically maligned comeback album, Relapse. With the sequel already promised for next year, the rapper says he has now “flipped the page”.
“I don’t want to make shit that you hear once and then the joke’s over,” [...]

Paul McCartney has jokingly revealed his stage fright was so bad in the ’60s he thought about quitting The Beatles.
Speaking tonight (November 25) in London at a preview screening of his new DVD, Good Evening New York City, the singer-songwriter explained he was so nervous before taking the stage in the band’s early period that [...]

Two weeks from its release, Timbaland has dropped R&B singer Chris Brown from his forthcoming album, calling the last-minute decision “mutual”. Brown recorded vocals for The One I Love before his assault on then girlfriend Rihanna in February.
“There’s nothing against Chris,” said Timbaland’s manager, Marcus Spence. “We love Chris.” And yet Spence wouldn’t explain the [...]

Speech Debelle has announced that she is sacking her record label, blaming Big Dada for the poor sales of her debut album. Speech Therapy never rose above No 65 in the charts, despite winning the Mercury prize in September.
“I wasn’t disappointed that it didn’t sell well, I was disappointed in the people I was working [...]

A Canadian man has admitted shoving Noel Gallagher at an Oasis concert in Toronto in September 2008, claiming he was drunk at the time. Daniel Sullivan pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm but said he has no recollection of how he mounted the stage.
According to attorney Ruth Neilson, Sullivan made his way on to [...]

U2 will headline next year’s Glastonbury festival, it was confirmed today. Bono and co have been slated for the Pyramid stage’s top spot on Friday 26 June, in what will be their first ever appearance at the festival. Organiser Michael Eavis had promised something special for Glastonbury’s 40th anniversary, and in booking a band who [...]

Ringo Starr’s forthcoming solo album will feature bass and backing vocals from an old, mop-topped pal from Liverpool. Paul McCartney appears on two tracks on Y Not, Starr’s fifteenth solo record and the first he has produced himself.
“Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was playing bass on [new [...]

Last year’s X Factor finalists JLS have seen off Robbie Williams in the race for the top of the album chart.
Williams’s much-promoted Reality Killed The Video Star made its album chart debut at number two.
The boy band’s debut album, JLS, went straight in at number one despite tough competition from the former Take That star, [...]