Jake Bugg

SXSW announces third round of bands for 2013 Fest (Vampire Weekend, Frightened Rabbit, TOY, The Thermals +++ more)

Frightened Rabbit @ T5, Nov. 2010 (more by Lionel Bergeron) SXSW has just announced another round of bands for the 2013 edition of the annual music festival that will happen March 12 – 17…

SXSW announces even more artists (Vampire Weekend, Local Natives, Thermals, Clutch, Rockie Fresh, Waxahatchee, more)

Vampire Weekend in Brooklyn in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) SXSW already revealed one round of artists, then a second, and now they’ve just revealed a third announcement which includes Vampire Weekend, Local Natives, The Thermals, Black Lips, Camera Obscura, Merchandise, Clutch, Rockie Fresh, Baauer, Bleached, TOY, Waxahatchee, Bleeding Rainbow, Count Bass…

2013 Brit Award nominees announced (Emeli Sandé, Mumford and Alt-J lead the pack)

Alt-J at Mercury Lounge in May (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Big day for award nominations. The Oscars announced theirs this morning and the Brit Awards just wrapped up their ceremony for 2013 nominations, with Emeli Sandé grabbing four and Mumford & Sons and Alt-J each getting three. Al…

Jake Bugg made his NYC debut at The Slipper Room (pics)

While he has toured parts of America already, opening for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, 18-year-old UK sensation Jake Bugg just made his NYC live debut, solo acoustic style, last Thursday (December 6) at the Slipper Room where he played a set of songs from his debut album (which went to #1 over there)…

Q Magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2012

Q Magazine put out their Top 50 albums of 2012 list, choosing to do so in no particular order this year, making it more a pile than a list…

Jake Bugg released debut LP (#1 in UK), playing NYC shows

The story goes that 18-year-old Jake Bugg – born Jacob Kennedy – picked up an acoustic guitar a few years ago and found himself writing songs in the urban-troubadour mould of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, with a touch of skiffle madness to leaven the folk-pop tales of Nottingham housing estates…

NME Top 50 Albums of 2012; Tame Impala 'Lonerism' gets #1

Long-running UK music weekly NME has just published their Year-End issue and have named Tame Impala‘s Lonerism as album of the year, with Grimes, Frank Ocean, Crystal Castles and Alt-J rounding out the Top 5…

the Notorious B.I.G.'s "GREATEST HITS,"

“Bad Boy Records has announced the upcoming release of the Notorious B.I.G.‘s “GREATEST HITS,” a 16-track compilation honoring the extraordinary life and career of the late, great hip-hop legend…

Diplo & Bonde Do Role - 2007 Tour Dates

DOWNLOAD: Bonde Do Role – Gasolina (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Bloc Party – Helicopter (diplo Mix) (MP3) Bonde Do Role in London, Feb 2007 (CRED) Back in July Diplo introduced us to the two new hottest hipster dance rock groups from Brazil – CSS and Bonde Do Role…

Smashing Pumpkins news

“Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has broken his silence about the reunited band’s new album, although it’s unclear who, if anyone, he and Pumpkins mainman Billy Corgan are playing with in the studio…
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