Babyshambles played a secret show for festival-goers at Brighton’s Great Escape festival yesterday (Saturday 16th May). The Levi’s sponsored event saw fans queuing round the block all afternoon at Audio, on the Brighton seafront, to catch Pete Doherty and the band. Read more >>
Green Day have leap straight to number one with their new album 21st Century Breakdown after just two days on sale, knocking Bob Dylan off the top spot. The band’s eighth studio album, was released worldwide on Friday 15th May and is one of only four albums in the last five years to debut at number one after a Friday release date according to the Official Charts Company. Read more >>
Kasier Chiefs have vehemently denied that they have been dropped by their label despite reports to the contrary. The News of the World reported on Sunday (May 17) that the band's contract with their label B-Unique had been ended. Read more >>
Roger Daltrey stunned guests at a recent wedding reception after he hopped on-stage to serenade the bride and groom. The singer joined rock band Thunder to belt out his band's hit Substitute for newlyweds Alejandro Londono and Angie Jenkinson. Read more >>
Jarvis Cocker is to provide the voice for a puppet in Wes Anderson's new movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's story Fantastic Mr. Fox. The singer joins a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray and Willem Dafoe. Read more >>
Amy Winehouse looks set to play this year's V Festival after her spokeswoman confirmed that she wants to play the event. Winehouse has been on extended vacation in St. Lucia since December as she attempts to beat her drug addictions and get over her split from husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Read more >>
Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood has confirmed that the band have begun recording the follow up to 2007's 'In Rainbows'. The news follows Ed O'Brien's confession in March that Radiohead had begun writing new material following the completion of most of their In Rainbows touring. Read more >>
Tori Amos is set to follow up her recent show at London's Savoy Theatre with a four date UK tour in September. Amos, who releases her latest album 'Abnormally Attracted To Sin' today, will begin the shows at Manchester's Apollo and go on to play in Birmingham, Glasgow and London. Read more >>
Jarvis Cocker started a new, very brief job earlier today - working behind the cash counter at HMV on London's Oxford Street. Instead of doing a bog-standard CD signing to promote the release of his new album 'Further Complications', the 45-year-old Britpop legend took a more hands on approach by manning the tills for two hours. Read more >>
Fans of Eminem have been queuing through the night in Detroit after the rapper announced he would be playing a free show in his home city on Tuesday (May 19). The queue formed and grew through the night at Record Time record store in Roseville, Michigan according to Billboard. Read more >>
Green Day's upcoming shows in the UK could last as long as four hours according to frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. The band are set to play eleven shows across the country in October and Armstrong says they're looking to beat the set lengths of a fellow American. Read more >>