For months music news services the world over have been reporting rumours, predictions, gut feelings and wild speculations concerning this year's Glastonbury Festival and it's line-up. Bands to confirm themselves for the return of the Somerset event include The Who, Arctic Monkeys and Kaiser Chiefs, with the Killers story first looking likely, then being denied by the organizers and now looking a certainty. We know this because Michael Eavis has told us.
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The Killers have just finished their arena tour and the support for those shows came from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
The band have a knew album out in April and their own UK tour the same month. Their festival appearances this summer are likely to be T in the Park and Oxegen. We know this because...they told us...that line could get boring, couldn't it! Anyway to read how they view their U-turn in musical direction, what they made of the Killers experience, why they're inspired by the likes of Primal Scream and Dandy Warhols and which band they'd just seen and were massively enthusiastic about in that laid back "they were amazing...man!" rockstar kinda way click here.
The Rapture have recently been on the road in the UK and we checked their gig out in Glasgow reviewed here, and had a chat with drummer Vitto about the tour and life in the Rapture right now. Read the interview here.
It's been another busy couple of weeks for our live reviewers. You were doing well if you got a ticket to any of the Arcade Fire shows on the current tour. Room Thirteen's Andy Reilly joined the excited masses in Glasgow to check out the band who've a massive hit album on their hands with 'Neon Bible': it's currently sitting at number 2 in the chart. Read his review here.
Mastodon seemed to have a rough time of things when they toured with Tool before Christmas with reports that poor sound let them down on more than one occasion. So when they returned to the UK for their own headline tour this was a must see event. We sent Terry Broadhurst to check them out in Manchester.
You can't pick up a tabloid these days without reading a story about Lily Allen. It seems even some sections of the music press are more interested in who she's got an opinion on and has been mouthing off about. Not so us, remember kids she made a pretty good album once too! Read Amy Brooke's review of her home coming gig in London here.
A year ago the hype was all about Lily, twelve months on a solo star in the making, but in a different mould is Jack Penate. Find out what all the fuss is about right here.
Click here for more live reviews or hit the links below for five of the best.
Alexisonfire in Cardiff
Half Man Half Biscuit in Cardiff
Jet in Portsmouth
LCD Soundsystem in Glasgow and
Poison the Well in Newport
Arctic Monkeys are back! They've a UK tour where fans had to register to be in with a chance of a ticket due to the expected demand ahead of one of the most eagerly awaited albums of the year.
The first single from the new album is 'Brainstorm' and you can watch the video right now on Room Thirteen, click here for the video.
There's less of a fanfair about the return of Maximo Park but their new record is expected to be another of 2007's must owns. The first single is 'Our Velocity', read a review here.
Also we review new albums from:
Type O Negative and the Bees, plus the first taster of the new Madness album, the mainstream smash in the waiting from Tiny Dancers and the current single from Saxon.
We've plenty more new videos aside from the Arctic Monkeys, click links below for some of our new aditions.
Ash
Bright Eyes
Enter Shikari
Calvin Harris and
Napalm Death
On Tuesday night we brought you the newest names on the Download Festival line-up. Click here to see the currently confirmed acts.
Keep your eyes on our News section as festival news is breaking on a daily basis, and make sure you check out our weekely round up every Saturday, this week including the best of the Carling Weekend rumourmill.
New in the world of Room Thirteen this month is our Myspace artist of the week feature.
First up is Alan Mx, read more here, plus check out R13 on Myspace at www.myspace.com/r13mag.
The line-up for the Carling Weekend is announced this Monday (March 19), check our news section for the details from 6.45 PM. Also we review the Download bound My Chemical Romance in Brighton, report back from McQueen's debut tour of Germany and preview our first festival of 2007 as Prog Power UK returns to Cheltenham at the end of March.