Daily updated music news, tour dates, reviews and interviews from the world of indie, alternative, rock and pop music. http://www.stereoboard.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:46:15 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.stereoboard.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.stereoboard.com Daily updated music news, tour dates, reviews and interviews from the world of indie, alternative, rock and pop music. http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96741/9/ Xfm is liberally sprinkling another Christmas with music for the sixth year running. London and Manchester will be experiencing the musical marvelousness with a line up that includes Razorlight, The Cribs, The Temper Trap and more... News & Reviews - Music News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:41:09 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96740/9/ Despite the name, you don’t get less Emo without being held down and given a technicolour perk-enema. Vampire Weekend are an unusual New York, outfit producing African-inspired, indie tunes brimming with sunny, ska-like energy. Click Here to Compare & Buy Vampire Weekend Tickets (/vampire-weekend-tickets.html) News & Reviews - Music News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:13:54 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96705/9/ Damn she’s feisty. You don’t get much more feisty without the strain of so much feistiness popping your head off with a gout of pure, uncontainable feist. The word 'feist' was just used a lot there but that’s because the only other word I know for feist is ‘spunk’, but that would make the last... News & Reviews - Music News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:56:03 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96704/9/ Dramatic, Adrenaline-fuelled, exhilarating, none of these terms apply to Hot Chip. You wont mind though, as you’ll be laid back all the way through vegetative coma and out to the other side to a world where wearing slippers all the time makes perfect sense. As long as the slippers are weird electro dancing slippers with... News & Reviews - Music News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:53:24 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96703/9/ They sound like someone should invent a new edgy teen drama just to feature their music. They look like they could do with a few cooked dinners. They smell like… I have no idea, probably hair gel, leather and money. They’ve announced a new tour like they really mean it. Click here to buy tickets... News & Reviews - Music News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:50:57 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96690/9/ Following their recent sell-out tour of the UK, which saw the band play two consecutive nights at London’s Koko, the release of their massively acclaimed debut album ‘Manners’ and a frenetic summer of live activity - Passion Pit have announced they will return to the UK for their biggest headline tour to date in... News & Reviews - Music News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:06:27 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96676/9/ In the state of Minnesota lies a small town called Owatonna with roughly twenty-two thousand inhabitants. Within that city is a quiet road with a modest house. In that house there’s an unkempt basement with no windows. Within those confines you’ll find Adam Young of Owl City hard at work on his... News & Reviews - Music News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:50:14 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96643/9/ Classic Rock Magazine last night named "Chickenfoot" as 2009's 'Best New Band' at their annual awards ceremony that took place at London's Park Lane Hotel. While unable to attend the London ceremony, the band recorded a personalized video acceptance speech which played out to rapturous applause. News & Reviews - Music News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:52:59 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96637/9/ Simply Red are getting back to nature by getting slap-bang in the middle of it and singing. The band have announced a series of gigs in woodland locations next summer as part of the Forestry Commission Live Music Tour. If you don’t tell the RSPCA, I will. Click Here for Simply Red Tickets (/simply-red-tickets.html) News & Reviews - Music News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:31:52 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96636/9/ Riotous, indie-punk, Cardiff-based Los Campesinos! are hitting the road again like asphalt bullies. The band are so lazer-focused on tours and churning out music that one member, Aleks, only just remembered this Summer that she’s a student and quit to catch up on her studies. Fortunately, Gareth's sister Kim has stepped in to take up... News & Reviews - Music News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:29:25 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96635/9/ Theatrical, angelically-voiced soul-biscuit Paloma Faith is on tour. Before she got into the whole being successful racket, Paloma Faith used to get sawed in half every night as a magician’s assistant. Ouch. Now, either I need to get out more or she’s got some healing glands that put Wolverine to shame. Medical science needs... News & Reviews - Music News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:14:34 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96630/9/ Three years have passed since Californian rockers The Red Hot Chili Peppers released their last studio album, the 2006, Rick Rubin produced, two-disc “Stadium Arcadium”. It has been announced that after a two-year hiatus the band are now hoping to be back in the second half of 2010 with what will be their tenth studio... News & Reviews - Music News Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:28:37 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96613/9/ Green Day have announced two massive outdoor shows for June 2010, in Manchester and London. Green Day’s recent sold-out tour wowed audiences with the band’s inimitable combination of frenzied punk energy, theatrical flourishes and euphoric crowd participation. Click here for Green Day Tickets. (/green-day-tickets.html) News & Reviews - Music News Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:45:56 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96583/9/ In the final of six shows for Q Magazine’s Sunday Awards ceremony, the HMV Forum in Kentish Town was home to an eclectic mix of 2009’s more notable new kids on the block. Q served up a selection of folk foot tapping beats, Kanye West influenced tunes and extravagant soulful sounds. News & Reviews - Music Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:35:39 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96499/9/ To celebrate the launch of Stereoboard.com's brand new social music community this month, community.stereoboard.com (http://community.stereoboard.com), along with the forthcoming release of Stereophonics brand new studio album 'Keep Calm and Carry On' on November 16th 2009 - Stereoboard.com are launching a fantastic Stereophonics prize giveaway for its registered members - worth nearly £200. News & Reviews - Music News Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:53:33 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96580/9/ viagogo, Europe’s leading secondary ticketing company, has partnered with concert promoter Live Nation to be the official premium and secondary ticketing partner for Michael Buble’s hotly anticipated UK tour. Tickets for Buble's 2010 tour went on sale this morning, and demand for tickets has been incredible. Michael Buble fans will be able to access exclusive premium tickets... News & Reviews - Music News Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:58:14 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96566/9/ Launching a UK tour to celebrate the 250,000th sale of their second album ‘Wild Young Hearts’, Noisettes are part punk, a bit rock’n’roll, somewhat jazz and a several other genres and decades thrown in for good measure. Fronted by Shingai Shoniwa who, and I mean this in a completely non-Sid James way, has an impressive... News & Reviews - Music News Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:37:44 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96549/9/ The Strokes frontman is going solo and on tour. As the son of the Founder of the Elite Model agency and a former Miss Denmark, Julian Casablancas could have spent his time fopping it around New York, eating Smørrebrød. Thankfully, he became the vocalist and chief song-writer of the Strokes instead. Click here for tickets.... News & Reviews - Music News Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:33:11 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96545/9/ Designed by fate to be a natural entertainer and musician, designed by nature to look like the lost third member of Ant and Dec, Jamie Cullum has been making music and breaking musical boundaries since his first Album ‘Heard it all Before’ in 1999. He’s on tour. Click here for tickets. (/jamie-cullum-tickets.html) News & Reviews - Music News Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:17:16 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96534/9/ The Prodigy have announced their biggest ever solo UK show, headlining the Milton Keynes Bowl on July 24th 2010. The biggest news to land on Milton Keynes since the tragic death of Napolean the celebrity donkey, the dance legends will be supported by Drum & Base favourites Pendulum. Also appearing will be Enter Shikari, Chase... News & Reviews - Music News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:46 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96533/9/ If a mad scientist took a bad hair day, stuck the 80s up its arse and grafted the results onto a shop mannequin, that scientist would probably not get a lot of funding and then get sectioned. In unrelated news, La Roux, the fantastic electropop duo of Eleanor Jackson and Ben Langmaid are on tour.... News & Reviews - Music News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:11:45 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96523/9/ Sir Paul McCartney is coming to London this Christmas and demand for tickets has been absolutely mammoth after his Las Vegas gig sold out in only seven seconds. The former Beatle will end a seven-date sold out European tour, his first in five years, with a concert at the O2 Arena in London on December 22nd... News & Reviews - Music News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:07:30 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96519/9/ Wolfmother entertained an expectant pack of music fans last week, hungry for rock and salivating for roll. Up for the first course were Band Of Skulls. And the Southampton trio, served up five Michelin Stars. Their sound was brash, overwhelming and bounced off the walls of the London Coronet, wrapping the audience... News & Reviews - Music Reviews Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:38:43 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96498/9/ The rock and blues performer claims the songwriter in him was born the day he went to hospital due to cardiac arrhythmia. It makes you wonder. For instance, if you shot him in the leg, would he come out of casualty a postman? Does it work that way for everyone? Could I go in with... News & Reviews - Music News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:32:13 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96497/9/ Grammy nominated artist Imogen Heap is on tour. One of these days, I’ll write about someone who hasn’t been nominated for something. I’ll call that day A-Day. I’m not saying Imogen Heap doesn’t deserve it, far from it, she did fun things in Frou Frou and as a solo artist, she’s talented, interesting and nice... News & Reviews - Music News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:30:22 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96475/9/ If you’re called Steel Panther, your name should always be capitalized. ‘STEEL PANTHER’ Do you see? It’s just somehow right. STEEL PANTHER. It’s even more fun to type when it’s in capitals. STEEL PANTHER. Rarrgh! I’m tempted to put it in bold too, but that might be too much STEEL PANTHER for my monitor to... News & Reviews - Music News Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:38:39 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96473/9/ Everyone’s favourite furniture-chewing pop harlot is back. She may appear to be trying to live up to her name and wields fashion like an offensive weapon but she gives good pop in many folk’s opinion; that’s what matters, and not that she appears to be an alumni of the Jordan school of publicity humping. The... News & Reviews - Music News Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:57:08 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96472/9/ Canadian Swing and Jazz-monger, Michael Bublé is going from strength to strength. He’s won a gaggle of awards including several Junos and a Grammy and his first album went top ten in the UK, Canada and, for some reason, the Lebanon. He also does a passable Dean Martin. Click here for tickets. (/michael-buble-tickets.html) News & Reviews - Music News Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:45:57 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96457/9/ We have a release date! Heavy rock super-group ‘Them Crooked Vultures’ have finally released details about their long anticipated debut album. The self-titled album will be released next month on 16th November 2009 via DGC/Interscope in the US and from Colombia Records in the UK. News & Reviews - Music News Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:34:41 +0100 http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/96453/9/ Nearly a year has passed since last November’s long awaited release of ‘Chinese Democracy’. Now Guns N’ Roses intend to follow up the ten-years-in-the-making album with a string of tour dates in Canada in January 2010. The band, whose only original member is lead singer Axl Rose, last toured in 2007. News & Reviews - Music News Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:16:24 +0100