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Ask anyone to name their Top Ten songs about Jesus and they'd stare blankly at you and turn up their Seafood album in the hope you'd go away. But Sunderland's newest indie stars, Electronic Eye Machine have come up with a definite contender for that list. Should it ever be made. 'Jesus Song' »
Stereophonics, Travis and The Chemical Brothers have been announced as the headlining acts for the V2002 Festival. Other acts confirmed to play the event so far include Badly Drawn Boy, Groove Armada, Supergrass, Primal Scream, Starsailor and Stereo MC's over a tot»
This keeps happening this year. Exciting, passionate, vitriolic rock 'n' roll bands keep falling from the sky fully formed. Not that I'm complaining. Mind yer heads, cos here come Span. Straight outta, er, Oslo, these Norwegian rockers sound at first listen to be off the Strokes, Stripes, »
It's so easy to dismiss a record like this. A record which Zane Lowe will shout over the intro to. A record for the kid wearing black in my Common Room to do air-drums to on his walkman. Granted, Nu-metal is a tired, bloated genre, ready to be crushed by a British Rock punch smashing it into insignificance. But »
Cosmic Rough Riders vocalist Daniel Wylie has left the group to "pursue a solo career". The band, whose biggest hit was last years Number 35 smash "Revolution (In The Summertime)" have issued a statement saying guitarist Stephen Fleming will take over vocal duties. "Daniel Wylie, singer of»
What a stupid thing do. Jetplane Landing go and release one of the best summer punk-pop anthems for years at the start of a particularly cold and grey March. The fools! We can forgive them for this, as 'Summer Ends' is as perky and exciting a tune you're likely to hear this side of the next millenni»
Apparently when Jim Reid was in The Jesus And Mary Chain, if he sneezed, then there was someone ready to wipe his nose. The adoration for The Mary Chain has now almost died out, (especially after their ill-advised 1998 Creation comeback), so Reid has to start again. He's decided to do that with Freehea»
Oasis have revealed that their long awaited new single will be ‘The Hindu Times’. It is to be released on April 15. The song was debuted during last year’s 10th anniversary Noise & Confusion tour. It got another airing at the recent charity gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the warm-up d»
Turin Brakes are planning to go back into the studio in March to record the follow up to 'The Optimist LP'. The next album, as yet untitled, is due for release in September. The first single from the new record will out in June. Th»
Alanis Morrissette sold 28 million copies of her debut album, "Jagged Little Pill". That's pretty incredible. Why? They were decent enough tunes, granted, but their real appeal lay in the fact that people, particularly women, thought that Alanis understood all their problems perfectly. She could su»
I once saw a member of A at a record fair in Camden. There he was, scouring quietly through the 7 inches, undisturbed by the record-buying public around him. After this single blasts into the charts, you won't see that so much. In fact, you won't see it at all. "Nothing", the first single to be draw»
Ahhh, Yes! This is exactly what we need. After two solid years of pot-bellied American Rock excess, Britain looks to finally be offering some resistance. A and Hundred Reasons are doing their bit, but out there on the front line are The Kennedy Soundtrack. Hailing from the grimy, grey street»
Classic pop seems to be under something of a revival the moment. The victory of "talented one" Will Young in the still over-hyped 'Pop Idol', demonstrated a public ready to shun the safe banality of Gareth Gates and his ilk, and embrace a more timeless pop sound. Now this, one of the most original pop records in»
It begins like the rumbling of an earthquake. Then the bizarre eighties American voice comes in. Then the synths crash down, the guitars crash in. It's sleazy, it's dangerous, it's The Faint. It's fantastic. The Faint are a Nebraskan five piece who look, from a distance, a bit like The Strokes»
Last night, Oasis were joined onstage by former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft, who played an exclusive acoustic set. Oasis were originally going to be supported by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club only, but Ashcroft's appearance had been rumoured for days. Ashcroft performed a number »
Quite why Eve 6 remain virtually unknown on our fair isle (the otherwise referred to "Shitty England") remains a mystery to me. Are they crap? No. No they're not. Are they really new? No. So one can only assume that unlike other 'rock' bands of this period they simply haven't bestraddled a giant multi-mil»
