XX won’t rush follow up

30th September 2010

Mercury Prize winners The XX won’t be rushing their next album, after their award-winning debut effort.
Romy Madley Croft said it could be a while until fans hear anything new, “we don’t want to rush anything. Same thing with this album we took our time. We were lucky enough to be given the time and there [...]

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Kings of Leon ad-lib new album

28th September 2010

Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill has revealed that all the lyrics on the band’s new album were ad-libbed.
Their new album, “Come Around Sundown”, was put together by ad-libbing in the studio.
“I didn’t write lyrics,” he explained. “I went in and ad-libbed, I free-floated everything. The closer it got to the end, I felt like, ‘Man, [...]

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Muse win best cover gong

22nd September 2010

Muse’s cover of Nina Simone’s version of ‘Feeing Good’ has been named the best cover song of all time.
More than 15,000 music fans voted online in an NME poll commissioned by SEAT, whose new music show “On Track With” airs on Channel 4.
The Devon trio beat the likes of The Beatles, Johnny Cash and Nirvana [...]

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Muse raise awareness of human trafficking

17th September 2010

Muse is joining forces with MTV to raise awareness of human trafficking.
MTV are running an EXIT campaign, which stands for End Exploitation and Trafficking in conjunction with USAID, and the music video for “MK Ultra” from the band’s latest album, The Resistance, will be up on 168 MTV websites around the world and it is [...]

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Vote in the 2010 Festival Awards

16th September 2010

The festival season is coming to close, but you can look back at a great year by voting in the 2010 Festival Awards UK.
The first stage of public voting will decide the nominees. A second stage in four weeks time will decide the winners – with the ceremony then held on November 18.
Festival Awards Managing [...]

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