THIS IS THE NEWS. Or it was the news, being a compilation of some of the most noteworthy stories of the first quarter of the year and the first...umm... 0.3333333 2.5 per cent of the decade (GCSE Maths, Grade B), if you want to get decimal about it all. Unfortunately, so far this year some of the biggest stories have also been the saddest, with three of music's brightest stars being lost to us forever, save through their music. »
The initial batch of headliners for this year's 2010 Latitude Festival has been announced and...it's pretty good all in all. Headlining the Obelisk Arena, which is the main stage, over the course of three days will be Florence + The Machine, Belle & Sebastian and Vampire Weekend. Just marginally underneath those three on the bill for that stage are Empire Of The Sun, The Maccabees and fast-fingered duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela.»
Late last month we reported that US act Gang Gang Dance asked Florence + The Machine for royalties, due to the absolutely ridiculous similarities between the GGD song 'House Jam' and Flo's 'Rabbit Heart'. They got them. It sounded like Florence had completely ripped them off, in all honesty, something they obviously weren't best pleased with. »
As one eagle-eared fellow from our forums pointed out, Florence + The Machine's track 'Rabbit Heart', or specifically the beginning bit, shall we say 'overpays homage' to Gang Gang Dance's 'House Jam' at certain points. Well, now GGD are trying to claim royalties from the track, claiming that the similarities are too striking (via Pitchfork).»
The xx sort of did a remix slash cover of Florence covering Candi Staton. It's interesting.»
Will she? Won't she? She is?! Why is she?! Yes, it's that time of year again where everyone gets pent up about the Mercury Prize before claiming that they don't really care much for it anyway. Mostly. And who is the favourite at this stage to claim the coveted prize? It's Florence + The Machine of course, for her/their album Lungs.»
It's that time of year when everyone in the indiesphere leaps onto the high horse of telling everyone else what is wrong with this year's Mercury Prize shortlist, charges round the racetrack of rigorously protesting how uninterested they are by said list, leaps over the fence of stating the obvious about some of the nominees not being that famous, and then probably heads off for a good feed in the stables of pointing out that M People won it once. So let's do that.»
Brighton electro merchants Metronomy (new line-up, above) have been announced as one of the first artists to be feature in BBC Electric Proms' New Music Shorts.»
Brand spanking new London superclub Matter has announced This Is Not London, a new series of artist curated events beginning on October 3rd and featuring Justice, Simian Mobile Disco and James Murphy and Armand Van Helden»
Celebrating their tenth anniversary, Iceland's Airwaves festival comes to East London, with eight venues (including 93 Feet East and Cargo) hosting performances from the likes of Metronomy and Wild Beasts»
Eel Pie oddities Mystery Jets are back with another lump of Twenty One for you»
CSS - singer Lovefoxxx pictured - are among the first batch of acts confirmed for this year's Iceland Airwaves festival, held in Reykjavik on October 15-19»
The line-up for a series of iTunes endorsed shows at London’s Koko has been announced.»
More acts have been announced for this year’s Bestival, as ticket stocks are plundered, dropping the remaining number to just 500»
The '1-2-3-4 Shoreditch' festival will debut in east London this Sunday 5th of August, pitching tent FREE four-fold in Shoreditch Park.»
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