Mcfly to ‘do a Radiohead’?
The band may allow fans to pay what they want for new album Radioactive, singer Tom Fletcher told the BBC»
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Ill Lykke Li cancels UK date
Swedish female Lykke Li has been forced to cancel one of her forthcoming London dates as she recovers from illness»
Let's Wrestle, Munch Munch, Johnny Foreigner and more for new Bristol all-dayer
Another all-dayer joins the massed ranks, but Abandon Ship boasts a bill so finely tuned to our frequency that we simply had to make mention of it»
Drug pun: Amy Winehouse added to Glastonbury line-up, Jay-Z collaboration on the cards?
Amy Winehouse has been officially added to this year’s Glastonbury bill»
Emojustice: black shirts to march on Daily Mail over My Chemical Romance suicide furore
A gaggle of My Chemical Romance fans hacked off at the media’s depiction of the band as a ‘suicide cult’ have organised a protest march on the offices of the Daily Mail»
Chinese horse whispers: Scarlett Johansson to play UK festivals this summer?
Hollywood’s Scarlett Johansson might be coming to the UK this summer for a few festival appearances»
Q Without U in debut album shocker
Glasgow’s Q Without U will release their debut album in a couple of weeks»
The new Nas album won’t be called ‘Nigger’
Nas has stunned the world by renaming his controversially-titled record a month or so before its release»
Santogold: ‘calling me R&B is totally racist’
Santogold has claimed that anyone labelling her music as hip-hop, rap or R&B is “totally racist”»
Plain White T's and Jeffrey Lewis among new names for Reading and Leeds festivals
More names have been scattered across the various stages of this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals»
Foals’ festival fixtures: stalk the band!
You read DrownedinSound, so the chances are Foals are your favourite band. They’re certainly one of ours – so we’ve painstakingly amassed* this compendium to assist you as you trail the band across land and sea this summer festival season»
Wax:On, Wax:Off: credit crunch kills festivals
The organisers of Wax:On Live have been forced to cancel the festival this morning, pointing a rueful finger the way of the “global financial market” and its precarious state of health»
Watch: new Coldplay video
'Violet Hill' gets itself a video»
New Alexander Tucker album arrives in June
Alexander Tucker returns, FX pedal under arm, with a new album next month»
Patrick Wolf to headline Redfest 2008
Patrick Wolf has been announced as the headliner for this year’s Redfest»
Watch: Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse, baby mice, WTF?!
This appeared on YouTube on Saturday. DrownedinSound can’t apologise enough for the delay and we’re not going to waste your time with any ‘humour’. Mainly because we can't decide if it's humourous or not»
Speaking words: Henry Rollins is coming for you, UK
Thespian, author and former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins will be in the UK this summer for a series of spoken word shows»
Wire announce new album details
The unfathomably fine Wire will return this summer with a new record, their first in five years»
School shooting: Kooks man lays into old music teacher
Pritchard sticks it to a naysaying music teacher»
1980s Butthole Surfers reuinite for UK and US shows
1980s era Butthole Surfers are reuniting for a set of US/UK dates this summer»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 16/05/08
The best this week had to offer»
Weezer add exclusive cover versions to album as UK release brought forward
Has the new Weezer album leaked yet? Us law-abiding childer at DrownedinSound wouldn’t know, but what we do now know is that the UK version of Weezer’s new album will come with two exclusive tracks»
Arcade Fire soundtracking new film from Donnie Darko director
Arcade Fire are scoring The Box the new film from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly»
Watch: Sigur Rós mincing around doing new album stuff
Icelandic glaciers Sigur Rós have a new album out in the future. It might even be that it arrives in the near future i.e. this summer, but we don’t know because we can’t understand a damn thing they’re saying. Still – they’ve had the decency to communicate what might happen visually, in the form of this video»
The Gutter Twins add UK dates to summer diary
The Gutter Twins will tour the UK later this summer to coincide with the release of a new single»
Babyshambles: Afrobeat
Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek has told the Daily Star that his band’s new record will ditch pop nonsense for tribal beats and adventurous experimentation»
New album: Ratatat follow Classics with Old Soul on LP3
Ratatat will release their third album this summer»
Nate Dogg: ‘I’m not dead’
Reports of Nate Dogg’s demise have been greatly exaggerated according to the rapper’s manager»
Coldplay like living with their grandmother
Well, it was either that headline up there or Coldplay won’t be ‘doing a Radiohead’. Which as well as being slightly tiresome in itself has already kind’ve been used, so we have this, news that Coldplay won’t be ditching EMI disguised as a semi-humourous jibe. Stirring stuff»
The Raconteurs, Beck and M.I.A. among new Hove additions
More names have been added to the bill for this year’s Hove Festival»