“I’ve never been so eager to make music. I’m itching for it. In a big way. If this opportunity had happened at a different time I would have just been spent, but I had had maybe six days of quiet and I can’t really write on the road. But when it all stops and things are quiet again you’re just ready for things to fall out of you. I have a phone full of memos and loads of notebooks with little melodic ideas.”

As mentioned, Hozier’s debut album ‘Hozier’ was met with widespread success, the County Wicklow born singer released his debut album back in 2014. ‘Hozier’ did remarkably well both commercially (reaching top ten chart positions in numerous countries) as well as critically, with hit song ‘Take Me to Church’ being nominated for ‘Song of the Year’ in the 57th Grammy Awards.

Listen to Hozier’s most successful song ‘Take Me to Church Below':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw

Considering the only release we have had from Hozier in the past two years is ‘Better Love’ a single written for the new Tarzan film, fans of the Irish singer will be hopeful that this interview means that we can expect some new material soon!

Jack White and Beck join the likes of Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, U2, Guns N’ Roses, Ryan Adams and many many more who have all signed the petition. The petition in question is aiming to stop Youtube from allowing anyone to upload and host musicc; in short to stop fans sharing their music from accounts that aren’t ‘official’. The argument is that as Youtube allows anyone to share and upload material then the already hugely rich musicians are missing out on even more money. There is logic in it as ultimately the music is the musicians artistic property therefore any potential gains from sharing it should go to the artist; however as said the vast majority of these musicians are hugely successful and rich so what’s the harm in a fan sharing their music?

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the law that musicians and record labels are looking to reform as they argue it is entirely outdated, having come into work 20 years ago before the digital music streaming explosion.

The petition makes the argument that the likes of Youtube (whilst not directly mentioned) make:

 “huge profits” by allowing people “to carry almost every recorded song in history in their pocket via a smartphone, while songwriters’ and artists’ earnings continue to diminish.”

Ultimately I doubt this petition will hugely affect Youtube as the people that are against Youtube are a minority in comparison to those who like and enjoy the service Youtube provides.

However whilst fans are obviously disappointed, they can’t complain too much as At The Drive-In confirmed that the reason for the cancellations are injury to lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s vocal chords, so it makes sense to not risk any further damage.

At The Drive-In released a statement on Facebook reiterating this:

Apologies to all our fans in NYC that were coming to our show. Cedric has a health concern with his vocal chords and can’t perform this evening. It is not possible to play without furthering his injury.

Thank you for your support!

ATDI has a goal to be a band for a very long time and we don’t want to impede that in any way.

We will be back!

Tickets can be refunded from point of purchase.

Rebellion Festival organisers complete the line-up, and it's pretty much incredible. https://t.co/mz2VIVDZkK pic.twitter.com/Z0vUGPwGSE

— Punktastic (@punktastic) June 16, 2016

The iconic Punk festival is also set to be host to a plethora of different entertainment; with the festival also hosting Q&A sessions, interviews and film screenings in ‘The Winter Gardens’ venue. This year’s Rebellion Festival is set to be the biggest one yet, with over 350 acts over the course of the four days in August (August 4th – August 7th).

The line-up this year includes Californian band The Descendants only UK date this year! Lead man Milo Aukerman had this to say on the festival:

“The Descendents have never played Rebellion Festival, so we’re psyched to rock Blackpool for the first time! Along with our classic material, we will be playing songs from our new record, Hypercaffium Spazzinate. That’s right; folks get to hear some new Descendents music!  The four-day Rebellion lineup is amazing; I wish we could stick around for the whole thing.  On that first day, I’m looking forward to seeing the Pears, the Dwarves, Gnarwolves, and Off With Their Heads.  It should be a blast; see you there!”

Find the big names in the line up below:

Descendents
Cock Sparrer
Stiff Little Fingers
Buzzcocks
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
The Damned
Flag IIII
The Exploited
Peter Hook & The Light
Slaughter & The Dogs
Angelic Upstarts
Cockney Rejects
Jilted John
The Adicts
Dag Nasty
The Dickies
Discharge
Ruts DC
GBH
Anti Nowhere League
TSOL
The Slackers
The Dwarves
CJ ramoe
Ferocious Dog
Chelsea
Agnostic Front
Bouncing Souls

NEW US AND CANADA DATES ANNOUNCED!!!!!!!!

TICKETS GO ON SALE THIS FRIDAY!

Gon be class this! X pic.twitter.com/95rFpZwiHx

— Catfish&theBottlemen (@thebottlemen) June 13, 2016

Catfish’s second album ‘The Ride’ came out a few weeks ago in May and has been met with widespread commercial success but somewhat mixed critical reception, very similar to their debut album ‘The Balcony’.

However despite this mixed critical reception, success has still been large enough that they have been able to announce details regarding a new North American tour this Autumn.

Please find the dates and venues for this tour below:

18/9/16 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
22/9/16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
23-25/9/16 – Las Vegas, NV – Life is Beautiful Festival
28-29/9/16 – Englewood, CO – Fiddler’s Green Ampitheatre
30/9/16 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
2/10/16 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
4/10/16 – Alberquerque, NM – Isleta Ampitheatre
5/10/16 – Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chin Pavilion
6/10/16 – Chula Vista, CA – Sleep Train Ampitheatre
7-9/10/16 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
10/10/16 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
12/10/16 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
13/10/16 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall
14/10/16 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
16/10/16 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
18/10/16 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
21/10/16 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
22/10/16 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
26/10/16 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
27/10/16 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works

Listen to the single ‘Soundcheck’ from their new album below:

Glynne’s debut album came out last August in 2015, titled ‘I Cry When I Laugh’. ‘I Cry When I Laugh’ was met with a good commercial reception, doing relatively well in the charts and sales; however it was also met with a definite mixed reception from critics.

When the album was released Jess Glynne was already an established name, but rather an established name as a collaborator than a stand alone artists. Initially finding success providing vocals to numerous EDM tracks, most famously ‘Rather Be’ with Clean Bandit; listen to that below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-M1AtrxztU

Glynne is also set to perform at the world famous Glastonbury festival later this year.

See the dates and locations of Glynne’s UK tour below:

18/11/16 – Birmingham – Genting Arena
20/11/16 – Liverpool – Echo Arena
22/11/16 – Dublin – 3Arena
24/11/16 – Leeds – First Direct Arena
25/11/16 – Newcastle – Metro Radio Arena
27/11/16 – Brighton – Centre
28/11/16 – Plymouth – Pavilions
30/11/16 – London – The 02
01/12/16 – Cardiff – Motorpoint Arena

It seems that Glynne has a very busy November ahead of her, with eight separate dates throughout the month, and whilst England isn’t that big, it’s still a lot of travelling for the singer!

The tour is titled the ‘Take Me Home Tour’ which is titled after Glynne’s successful hit song ‘Take Me Home’ listen to that below:

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— BASTILLE (@bastilledan) June 2, 2016

Bastille’s second album has been heavily rumoured for a while now, what with the band performing brand new songs at gigs recently. See our article on this here.

The video announcing details regarding their new album was also posted on Youtube:

Back in February lead singer Dan Smith discussed the prospects of their second album, revealing that one was certainly in the works:

“I’ve heard lots of bands talking about making their ‘difficult’ second album, but we never thought that far ahead. I guess, until recently, we haven’t had much time to think about it,” Dan Smith said in the video.

“We’ve been so lucky to be touring constantly over the past few years, and it’s been a lot of fun,” he continued. “But it’s meant that we’ve massively had to adapt the way that we make music. This new album has been written and recorded on tour buses, in backstage rooms and hotels all over the place. The process of writing and making the songs hasn’t changed much, it’s just that this time around, we’re doing way less of it in my bedroom.”

Bastille of course first emerged on the UK music scene back in 2013 with their debut album ‘Bad Blood’. ‘Bad Blood’ was the start of a great year for Bastille, which culminated with them being nominated for four Brit Awards, ultimately winning ‘Best British Breakthrough Act’.

It’s been a long three years without any new material from Bastille, so hopefully with their album being announced we can expect some official singles soon!

The news regarding their upcoming third album has been covered by a wide range of media sources, BBC Radio 1 were particularly excited about the news:

Busted have signed a deal with record label East West Records, who are an offshoot of the larger Warner Music Group. The UK president of East West Records, Dan Chalmers had this to say on the news and the sound of the new album:

“managed to combine the classic Busted sound with a modern twist” on their new album.

“We’re really happy to be working with Charlie, Matt and James as well as their management team and we’re dedicated to delivering a massive new record,”

The band also spoke to newspaper The Sun about their upcoming album:

“We’ve had an incredible time on our arena tour, and are now looking forward to releasing new music through a global partnership with East West. It’s great to see Dan, Howard and the team as excited about the new music as we are.

“The album is done, it’s ready to go. We’ve just got to do the little finishing touches.

Busted are seemingly very excited about their upcoming album and who can blame them! In the same interview they expressed their thoughts on the new material:

“It’s the best s**t we’ve ever done by ten times. The first single is f***ing ridiculous. I’m more proud of our first single than anything I’ve ever done in my life. It is the most epic song, it’s ridiculous.”

 

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“If the record doesn’t come out this year then it won’t be because it’s not done,” he stated. “It will be because there’s some sort of cosmic reason that it would be smarter to hold onto it until next year.”

However no fear Metallica fans, he also confirmed that the album, seemingly no matter what, is set to be completed this year; with Lars saying that:

“But the record will be done this summer”.

We first heard news of an upcoming album from Metallica back in February when lead guitarist Kirk Hammett confirmed reports that the legendary thrash band were releasing new material; see our article on that here.

Metallica’s last album came eight years ago in 2008 with ‘Death Magnetic’, which was met with more critical acclaim than perhaps expected. Whilst still a household name and a phenomenally significant band, Metallica struggled to please both fans and critics with past albums ‘Reload’ and ‘St. Anger’. ‘Death Magnetic’ worked as well as it did as it was more of a throwback to what Metallica so often did best, with pacey, heavy metal and long complex guitar solos.

Hopefully with the new album we’ll see more material similar to the incredible ‘Ride The Lightning’, ‘…And Justice for All’ and ‘Master of Puppets’.

Listen to one of Metallica’s most famous songs ‘Nothing Else Matters’ below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj75Arhq5ho

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The full #Glastonbury2016 line-up poster is here! Get full day / set times info at https://t.co/KX0wOkaITk pic.twitter.com/BnRl8JcoJE

— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) May 31, 2016

The timings released mean that people can also begin to plan their weekend away in Somerset! The timings for the all important Pyramid stage can be found below:

Friday June 24th:
11:00 – 11:45 – The Orchestra of Syrian musicians with Damon Albarn & Guests
12:15 – 13:00 – Rokia Traore
13:45 – 14:30 – Skepta
15:00 – 16:00 – Two Door Cinema Club
16:30 – 17:30 – Jess Glynne
18:15 – 19:15 – ZZ Top
20:00 – 21:15 – Foals
22:15 – 23:45 – Muse

Saturday June 25th:
11:30 – 12:00 – Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir
12:25 – 13:15 – Squeeze
13:40 – 14:30 – Baaba Maal
15:00 – 16:00 – Wolf Alice
16:30 – 17:30 – Madness
18:15 – 19:15 – The Last Shadow Puppets
20:00 – 21:15 – Tame Impala
22:15 – 23:45 – Adele

and closing the festival will be:

Sunday June 26th
11:00 – 11:30 – Burnham and Highbridge Band
12:00 – 12:40 – Caravan Palace
13:00 – 14:00 – Gregory Porter
14:30 – 15:15 – Laura Mvula
16:00 – 17:15 – Jeff Lynne’s ELO
17:45 – 18:45 – Ellie Goulding
19:15 – 20:30 – Beck
21:30 – 23:15 – Coldplay

Glastonbury lasts for four days, spreading out from the 22nd June till the 26th June. Arguably one of the world’s leading festivals, certainly one of the most famous; Glastonbury boasts a wide range of different genres and different art forms. Whilst Glastonbury is of course most famous for its Pyramid stage and hosting the biggest and best in the music world, Glastonbury also hosts numerous comedians and theatre, often found at the aptly titled ‘Theatre and Circus Stage’.

Tickets for Glastonbury this year have of course sold out, as they so often do days after they are released. But this doesn’t mean you have to necessarily miss out on all the fun, if you are UK based then the BBC often broadcast the vast majority of the festival.

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