Due to overwhelming demand, New Zealend’s music comedy cohorts the Flight of the Conchords have added two extra UK dates to their upcoming European tour this May.
The extra dates are for the Appollo, Manchester on 8 May and Wembley Arena, London on 25 May.
Tickets for the original UK dates went on sale last Friday,...
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Gig/Concert: Tinariwen
Venue: Phoenix Concert Theatre, Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date: 4 March 2010
Headliners: Tinariwen
In one word: Radiant
Tonight in Toronto “one of the most superb bands” in world music performed to a packed-out Phoenix Concert Theatre. That’s a paraphrase of the introduction given by Small World Music’s Executive Director Alan Davis as Tinariwen took...
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Established in 1990, and set in the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens on the Wiltshire/Dorset border, the Larmer Tree Festival has given audiences a diverse range of world-class music from across the globe. This year is no exception, with reggae legends Toots and the Maytals, renowned blues guitarist Robert Cray, Newton Faulkner, and British music institution Jools Holland, who...
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Iron Maiden, The Final Frontier… sounds pretty epic, doesn’t it? But don’t worry about the name; Britain’s heavy metal superstars haven’t sold themselves out with some kind of lame Star Trek tie-in, but instead Eddie is just revealing some science fiction influences again as he leads Maiden on their latest North American assault in...
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Chuck Ragan, of Hot Water Music, and now a distinguished solo singer-songwriter of his own merit, is set to play European and UK tour dates this March, then heads to Australia in April. Music Vice’s Scotland based writer Gavin Leech probed Chuck with some questions about his music and the upcoming tour.
The most common...
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The nominees for the 2010 Juno Awards have been announced and the list is a little underwhelming to say the least.
This year’s nominations for the award ceremony taking place this April in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, are dominated by Michael Bublé and Justin Bieber (whose more annoying?) in what is the weakest list...
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Stone Temple Pilots are set to release their first album in nearly a decade, with their self-titled sixth studio album dropping for international release on 25 May 2010.
Produced by Stone Temple Pilots and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, My Chemical Romance), Stone Temple Pilots is the follow-up to 2001’s Shangri-La...
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The White Stripes documentary Under Great White Northern Lights is set to be screened tomorrow, Friday 26 February in Toronto at the Royal cinema in Little Italy.
The film was shot in 2007 during the White Stripes tour across Canada, a tour which saw Jack and Meg White turning up in a lot of destinations...
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So here we are, twelve years since Doves formed in Manchester and released the Cedar Room EP on the Casino Records imprint (funded by the one and only Rob Gretton) and ten years have elapsed since Doves epochal debut, Lost Souls was released on the legendary Heavenly Recordings.
In that time we have been privy...
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Deftones have announced their sixth studio album Diamond Eyes will be released on 18 May 2010.
“Rocket Skates”, the first single from the album, is now available as a free download from the Deftones website.
It was originally planned that Eros would be the follow-up to 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist, but the release of Eros...
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