The French alt rock band Phoenix are planning to release their new album Phoenix and have revealed to NME that it was recorded on the very same console upon which Michael Jackson recorded his 1982...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 19th February 2013
Taylor Swift is facing a $1.8 million lawsuit, after she walked away in profit from a country music hoedown in Canada… one which never happened. TMZ have obtained a copy of the lawsuit, relating to...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 19th February 2013
Mindy McCready shot the dog that had belonged to her boyfriend David Wilson, before taking her own life, Associated Press have reported. The troubled country singer apparently took her own life, on the porch of...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 19th February 2013
Push the Sky Away, the new album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is perhaps the most significant album of this week. It’s the first release from the band since Dig Lazarus Dig! which...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 19th February 2013
The CW’s new drama Cult premieres tonight (February 19, 2013) and viewers should prepare to expect the ridiculous. It’s not bad-ridiculous, it’s good-ridiculous. But it’s ridiculous, nonetheless. A TV show within a TV show, Cult...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19th February 2013
Sad news for dedicated Beatles fans, as Tony Sheridan dies, aged 72. Sheridan was an early supporter of the Fab Four; indeed, the Liverpudlian quartet performed as his backing band in Hamburg in their early...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 19th February 2013
50 years ago today (February 19, 2013), W.W. Norton published a book entitled The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. Little did the president of W.W. Norton – George Brockway – nor his employees realise that...
If you have been wondering who that mystery guy was that took Britney Spears out for sushi on Valentine’s Day, then wonder no more. TMZ have done some serious investigating and it turns out that...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 19th February 2013
Alec Baldwin has found himself on the receiving end of a Hate Crime investigation in New York, after allegedly hurling racist abuse at a paparazzi photographer working for the New York Post. According to a...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 19th February 2013
Fergie has announced that she’s pregnant, the only way that celebrities know how to announce anything, these days. Gone are the times that their press agent would hurriedly scribble a press release and contact all...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 19th February 2013
Albums Of Note... Get Up! pairs modern blues idol and expert slide guitarist Ben Harper with harmonica legend Charlie Musselwhite. Aiming for blues authenticity, that’s exactly what Ben and Charlie achieve here. The pair of...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 18th February 2013
Beautiful Creatures may boast a stellar cast, with the likes of Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons in the midst of its line-up, but that did not save it from a receiving a serious trouncing in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th February 2013
This week heralds the long awaited return of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Of course, we have seen plenty of Nick Cave over the last few years, with 2010’s Grinderman 2 album and his...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 18th February 2013
The movie world is on tenterhooks waiting for some kind of official confirmation that Harrison Ford will be returning to the Star Wars franchise as Han Solo. All signs seem to suggest that the rumors...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th February 2013
Remember when Hugh Grant had a baby with a woman that he’d had a brief affair with, but was seemingly no longer dating? Well, he’s gone and done it again. Hugh Grant and Tinglan Hong...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18th February 2013
A new Mary J Blige tax lien indicates that the singer is far from being in the clear when it comes to her financial woes. According to TMZ, the R&B singer – who was recently...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 18th February 2013
One Direction are taking an unusual… direction… for their next music video. Recorded in aid of Comic Relief, the teen boy band have decided to release a mash-up of two punk classics – Blondie’s ‘One...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 18th February 2013
Could Kim Kardashian finally be getting that divorce she’s been hankering after for so long? Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphies’ marriage is often touted as the infamous ’72 day marriage’ but in actual fact, their...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18th February 2013
That Katy Perry ring? Sorry folks, it’s not an engagement ring, as it happens. When Katy Perry was spotted sporting a ring, after a romantic Valentine’s dinner with her dubious beau John Mayer, rumours instantly...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18th February 2013
News has broken of Mindy McCready’s suicide, just weeks after the mysterious death of her boyfriend, David Wilson. McCready died in an apparent suicide, from a gunshot wound to the head, after killing her dog,...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18th February 2013
The Kate Nash of old is long gone. The singer once known for wearing cutesy dresses and cardigans appears to have shed that vintage look and is opting for a more dramatic sartorial style. Sporting...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15th February 2013
Was the notorious Valentines slump to blame for the drop in Community’s ratings last night (February 14, 2013)? Or is there something else amiss with the new series of the show? Last week’s season debut...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th February 2013
LeAnn Rimes sued her dentist, after claiming that his below-par dental work has left her with “permanent cosmetic deficiency” and physical pain. She has also claimed that she was left unable to sing (and therefore...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15th February 2013
The actress Thandie Newton has spoken out about the abuse that she suffered as a teenager, on a casting couch. The 40 year old British actress was speaking as part of the One Billion Rising...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15th February 2013
Demi Lovato has teased her fans with a trailer for her forthcoming single ‘Heart Attack,’ which reveals that the American Idol judge is ready to get up close and personal in her music and confront...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 15th February 2013
Vonn and Tiger really do seem to be stepping things up a notch with their relationship. They might be keeping coy when it comes to their burgeoning relationship, but actions speak a thousand words and...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15th February 2013
Despite popular modern belief, Ashton Kutcher is actually aware that some of his movie are total garbage. Admittedly, it hasn’t stopped him continuing to make them, but at least he’s showing a degree of self-awareness....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th February 2013
Ah, Valentine’s Weekend. That thing that doesn’t actually exist because there’s only actually one day that’s officially attributed to Valentine’s Day but it does exist in the world of the movie box office. It’s the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th February 2013
Jim Jones was arrested in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where he resides. The rapper was charged with disorderly conduct and hindering apprehension by the Fair Lawn Police Department, according to NorthJersey.com. The incident reportedly occurred...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 15th February 2013
The actor Martin Le Vell (real name Michael Turner) has been dropped from ITV soap opera Coronation Street after being accused of 19 sexual offences, including raping a child. According to The Independent, ITV have...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15th February 2013
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...
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