*Madness* have announced their biggest UK arena tour to date. The live dates will cover thirteen cities during November and December. During the tour, *Madness* will be showcasing new tracks from their forthcoming album as a follow up to *The Liberty Of Norton Folgate* as well as playing the hits...

“Considering Labi Siffre has had at least a couple of Number Ones, directly or indirectly, he’s maybe not an obvious choice as an outsider. From being sampled by Eminem for ‘My Name Is’ to the Madness cover of his song ‘It Must Be Love’, his fingerprints have been on popular music for many decades now. In typically modern fashion though, his actual voice is rarely heard. We may inadvertently know about what restaurant Rihanna is eating in tonight via Twitter, but we probably can’t note one important thing about Labi Siffre - one of the most important British musicians ...

The ska-pop icons will play 14 gigs across the country in November and December

Greetings fellow art fiends. I don't believe there's yet been an update about the course that our art coverage is taking, so here it is. I know that quite a few of you take an interest in this because the art digest gets a lot of views each week, which of course makes me grin. So firstly, thank you for taking the art coverage seriously in spite of the main part of the site being music. However, you'll notice that there has been a bit of favouritism towards new media. London-based new media at that. It's ...

Jay-Z has a method behind his madness.  DETAILS: Rita Ora Is Happy To Be Compared To Rihanna! UK singer Rita Ora caught Jay-Z's attention a little over a year ago, and after experiencing her infectious personality and ambition, Jay had to have her on Roc Nation.  In an interview with VEVO LIFT, Jay-Z spoke highly of the "R.I.P." songstress.    "You can see the potential. When she enters a room it changes and that presence you can't duplicate that, especially at a young age. It was just infectious to me, like 'man she loves this' she's ...

J Dilla 's  DILLATROIT 12" EP will be released May 25 in the U.S. and June 12 internationally via Mahogani Music , as FACT reports . The British dance music webstore  Juno  has confirmed that it features 12 unreleased tracks, and is being released in partnership with the J Dilla Foundation and the Yancey Media Group . Mahogani has also posted a brief Soundcloud sampler with excerpts from the release, cut with commentary from J Dilla's mother, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey. As mentioned last weekend , she's also launched a label, Ruff Draft, where she'll issue unreleased Dilla creations. DILLATROIT ...

Words: Simon Opie I wanted to collect up some varied new music from the UK that’s been coming in to FADED GLAMOUR Towers over the last few weeks and falling into the Altrock inbox. There’s a lot going on and this is only a fraction but it’s the part I feel is really worth passing on - featuring Static Plan , Since Monroe and Dissociates . First up is Guildford band Static Plan who have a self-released and self-titled 4-Track EP just out. It’s a self-confessed blend of influences from Nine Inch Nails to Radiohead , but I like it ...

Every DJ has one. A night when everything that can possibly go wrong does - and it does so in spectacular fashion. ClashMusic brings you DJ Disasters , featuring some of the most respected figures in the dance world reminiscing about those moments when it all went badly wrong. Jack Beats link together two completely different disciplines. Plus One is a Scottish turntablist with roots in the hip hop scene, while Beni G cut his teeth with The Mixologists. Somehow, though, it works. Except for this one time... - - - So we were doing a set in Oxford in the UK a year or ...

It’s a few minutes before the Happy Mondays are due to take to the stage for the London leg of their first tour as the original line-up in over nineteen years. The compere drawls a few Mancunian expletives into the microphone and whacks on ‘Love Spreads’. The ghost of late ‘80s and early ‘90s Manchester is most definitely in the building. Looking around there are more than a few haunted souls in the audience, too. In fact, there’s barely a face in sight that doesn’t look like it’s been put through its paces at the Hacienda ...

Inocente The Job [Cumberland, Sunday April 29, 1:30 pm] The primary scene of this documentary is a French corporate boardroom of a job recruitment agency that pits a panel of headhunters against a ten job-seekers of varying ages and job experience.  As the perspective changes between four static, strategically-placed cameras, the viewer gets to observe the often-tense situations the job candidates go through over the course of two days. With the two days entailing entailing role-playing, mock debates and intimidating panel discussions, candidates are often confused with the techniques and at times even feels border-line demeaning. But there is ...

Twice a week we invite independent music writers and bloggers to tell us about what they do. Today, a growing alphabet-based list of exciting new artists Who are you and what's your blog called? I'm Adam and the blog is Alphabet Bands . Where are you based? The fine city of Norwich. Describe your blog in a sentence. I love music and as well as sharing new tracks, reviews and interviews on Alphabet Bands, I find and profile new bands for each letter of the alphabet, hence the name. Method, madness, it's all there. How long has your ...

Filed under: News , Video , New Music Press Here Kasabian had a watershed two weeks at Coachella 's first-ever extended festival in Indio, Calif. The British band indulged in some traditional rock 'n' roll excess, and their experience is best related by guitarst Serge Pizzorno, as excerpted below. "California was insane a week of madness: Boozing and laughing, dancing and tearing it up. We tore it up," Pizzorno tells Spinner. "But most important was the gig; it felt like we had something to prove. Rock 'n' roll is dangerous when it backs you into a corner, because you become an animal ...

DIY punk cabaret singer Amanda Palmer has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the release of her first studio album in four years. It's a multimedia undertaking, including a book and an art show. She will be backed by The Grand Theft Orchestra (Michael McQuilken, Chad Raines, and Jherek Bischoff). The goal was $100,000. Right now she has received pledges for $355,307 ... TO KICK OFF THIS YEAR OF MADNESS, in which we'll be touring ALL OVER THE WORLD, we're going to unveil the new material and the original large-format album art/paintings LIVE in six ...

Holographic Dreams Vision Imaginary we got a new release + preorder announced over at  robotelephant : Blue on Blue / Os Ovni - Vision Imaginary / Holographic Dreams now available to pre-order. Our next release will be a special transatlantic Double-EP - or transatlantic Split EP, however you want to take it, between now Jacksonville / Florida based space travellers Os Ovni and London’s deconstructed pop experimentalists Blue on Blue  - the concept of transatlantic cooperation was something we aimed to do a long time, and in this case it also shows to amazing emerging bands, drawing similar influences in their music from the likes of Broadcast ...

Holographic Dreams Vision Imaginary robotelephant : Blue on Blue / Os Ovni - Vision Imaginary / Holographic Dreams now available to pre-order. Our next release will be a special transatlantic Double-EP - or transatlantic Split EP, however you want to take it, between now Jacksonville / Florida based space travellers Os Ovni and London’s deconstructed pop experimentalists Blue on Blue  - the concept of transatlantic cooperation was something we aimed to do a long time, and in this case it also shows to amazing emerging bands, drawing similar influences in their music from the likes of Broadcast and Bruce Haack .  For this release we are going ...