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Written By: Alex on March 3, 2010 No Comment

Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke is going on tour with his side project and it sounds great. The band is called Atoms for Peace and is comprised of Flea, Nigel Godrich, Mauro Refosco and Joey Waronker, all of whom contributed on Thom’s solo album ‘The Eraser’. Thom said “ok so in April the other band.. [...]

Written By: Alex on August 24, 2009 No Comment
Razorlight singer Johnny Borrell says the band almost missed the V Festival when their sound technician fell out of the bus on the motorway

SINGER Johnny Borrell says his band Razorlight nearly missed their set at Chelmsford’s V Festival due to one of their sound technicians falling out of the tour bus on the motorway.

Johnny, 29, said: “I didn’t personally have a drama but in Razorlight, well we did have a big drama, because one of our [...]

Written By: Alex on June 26, 2009 No Comment
Glastonbury Festival co-founder expects artists to pay tribute to Michael Jackson

The co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival believes artists at the festival will pay tribute to the late Michael Jackson.

Emily Eavis said: “I am shocked. This is such a tragic moment. We haven’t got anything official to say yet but what I can say is there are tributes all over the site.

“Everywhere you go [...]

Written By: Alex on May 11, 2009 No Comment

The rapper has recently confirmed that he will be performing at the famous British musical event along with his protégé Mr. Hudson. Kanye West said: We’ve toured together a lot so it’s a real possibility. I do agree with the idea you have to play guitar or some other kind of instrument at a festival. [...]

Written By: Alex on May 5, 2009 No Comment

Amy Winehouse was taken to the hospital in St. Lucia this past weekend. The singer’s spokesperson said that the reason behind the hospitalization was dehydration. Wino’s publicist said “She fainted at home (in St Lucia) and they took her in for observation, mainly to do with her medication to check everything was OK. They told [...]

Written By: Alex on April 22, 2009 No Comment

The complete list of artists participating in the Lollapalooza Music Festival has just been revealed. The headliners include Depeche Mode, Tool, the Killers, Jane’s Addiction, Beastie Boys and Kings of Leon. Other notable performers include Lou Reed, Ben Harper, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Rise Against, Andrew Bird, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend, the Decembrists, [...]

Written By: Alex on April 7, 2009 No Comment
Pete Wentz’s festival plans

The musician from Fall Out Boy who will be playing a couple of festivals this summer in the UK is considering taking his 4-month old son Mowgli with him on tour. Pete Wentz said: “Would I take my baby to a festival? We’ll see. I wouldn’t mind him seeing the headliners Radiohead at [...]

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Written By: Alex on March 27, 2009 No Comment
Glastonbury with one foot in the grave

The famous British festival was one step away from being canceled. Michael Eavis, its founder, had this to say about the dire situation the music event had reached: “Last year I thought that maybe we’d got to the end and we’d have to bite the bullet and fold it all up. A lot [...]

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Written By: Alex on March 17, 2009 No Comment
The Killers’ Glastonbury show

The band recently related a funny, albeit absurd, incident that occurred when they were on their way to a performance in Glastonbury in 2005. The band’s drummer, Ronnie Vanucci, relates: “The most ridiculous incident we’ve had was probably when we played Glastonbury in 2005 – which, up to that point, was the biggest [...]

Written By: Alex on February 5, 2009 No Comment
Amy Winehouse to Lead Coachella


Amy Winehouse is being advertised as one of the headliners at the annual Coachella music festival which will be held near Palm Springs, California this April. The official line up was just recently announced and Wino’s involvement was definitely nothing short of surprising. Is she even going to show up? If someone [...]

Written By: Alex on January 26, 2009 No Comment
SXSW Music Festival Performers Revealed


The lineup of participating acts for the 2009 SXSW Music Festival was recently revealed. There are hundreds of artists that will take part in the festival with hundreds more that aren’t even official participants but will be performing at one of the countless unsanctioned showcases during the mid-March festival in Austin. Katy [...]

Written By: Alex on June 20, 2008 No Comment
Rage Against the Machine get political


Rage Against The Machine are considering crashing the U.S. political parties this year when the Republicans and Democrats hold their nominating conventions later this summer reports antiMusic.

While the band only have one U.S. appearance set for this year (Lollapalooza,) Tom Morello said in an interview “There is the possibility that we will be playing [...]

Written By: Alex on March 10, 2008 No Comment
Organizers Pissed at Lily Allen


Lily Allen is not having any luck lately. Organizers of the UK?s Isle of Wight Festival are pissed off at the 22-year old British singer for backing out on them. Lily was supposed to play the June event but has cancelled due to her new album being behind schedule [...]

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