Them Crooked Vultures Circle UK Skies

Imagine this, you’re carelessly glancing through the pages of a monthly music magazine, memorising gig dates, noting down the stand-out tracks from the newly released albums, catching up on the latest news from some of the planets biggest names in music. Then, without any kind of warning, it hits you. Something else catches your eye, something you need to read twice just to make sure. You scan it again to double check. It reads, “The next project that I’m trying to initiate involves me on drums. Josh Homme (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal) on guitar, and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) playing bass. That’s the next album. That wouldn’t suck.”

Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 07 October 2009

AC/DC To Release Major Box Set

It has been announced that kings of rock AC/DC are to release a new major box set on November 10th….and what a Box set it will be!! The collection, which will include CDs, DVDs, 164-page book, an LP and a stash of original memorabilia reproductions, will be titled “Backtracks” and in true AC/DC rock and roll style, even the box itself will double up as a working amplifier! That’s right you didn’t read it wrong, one watt of pure AC/DC stored in the ‘head’ of the box, makes this whole package one of the ultimate collectors items. Ok, so with one watt you may not be able to turn it quite up to ‘11’, but where else would you be able to PLAY the box set while LISTENING TO the box set!

Written by: Jon Stickler | Date: Wednesday, 07 October 2009

Mika Announces UK Tour Dates & Tickets

Mika has announced a UK tour taking place next Spring. The Lebanese born singer will hit the road in February and March for a ten date tour kicking off in Belfast on February 13th. Click here for Mika tickets

Written by: Stereoboard.com | Date: Wednesday, 07 October 2009

Little Boots Tour Dates & Tickets Announced

Talented, attractive, critically acclaimed, BRIT-nominated, topper of the 2009 BBC sound of music poll before her album was even released plus a criminally endearing name, Little Boots is carving a niche for herself into the music world. It’s quite satisfying to find out that she entered Pop Idol and didn’t even make it up in front of the judges. Cram that up your pipe, Cowell. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Tuesday, 06 October 2009

Newton Faulkner Tour Dates & Tickets Announced

When one of your middle names is Battenberg, you have three choices, become an accountant, become a sociopath or grow ginger dreads and become a soulful acoustic pop/blues/folk singer. Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner is a terrible accountant and a pacifist, so the choice was easy. He’s on tour. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Tuesday, 06 October 2009

Kasabian UK Tour Dates Extended

Kasabian have taken pity upon Bournemouth and added the city to their November tour. Pundits are speculating exactly what it is that Bournemouth did to get this honour. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Tuesday, 06 October 2009

Glastonbury Festival 2010 Sold Out in 12 Hours Non-Shocker

Yep, after an intense battle of phone calls and clicking the refresh button, it’s over. It only took 12 hours for every 2010 Glastonbury ticket to disappear from the virtual shelves. This is a marked improvement on 2009’s tickets, which took several weeks to sell out but then 2009 was such a success and the next festival is the 40th anniversary.

Written by: Saard | Date: Tuesday, 06 October 2009

Jay-Z Announces Show at Alexandra Palace, London

Jay-Z, the heavyweight king of Hip-Hop, Fella to Beyonce, only Hip-Hop Arist ever to headline at Glastonbury and an musician so successful that scientists have hypothesized that 90% of the dark matter in the universe is money he’s forgotten he has, is on tour. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Monday, 05 October 2009

Stereophonics Tour Dates & Tickets Announced for March 2010

Having rocked Cardiff Castle on the weekend (check out the pics and review here), Stereoboard.com can exclusively reveal the Stereophonics March 2010 UK Arena Tour Dates. Get your Stereophonics tickets here.

Written by: Stereoboard.com | Date: Monday, 05 October 2009

Radiohead's Thom Yorke Forms Band with No Name

Radiohead's Thom Yorke has formed a new band. The frontman has recruited crazy Chilies slap bassist Flea, Joey Waronker (a drummer and producer who has worked with Beck, mashing Pumpkins and REM), Brazil’s multi-talented Drum Maestro Mauro Refosco, and ace producer Nigel Godrich (worked with Radiohead a lot but also Beck, McCartney, Travis, U2, etc... etc...) to help him perform his solo material live.

Written by: Saard | Date: Monday, 05 October 2009

Runrig Tour Dates & Tickets Announced

When you combine Rock & Folk, what do you get? Yes, beards that can be used to scrape the paint off cars, but when you add some Scottish to the mix, you get Runrig, the Folk Rock megastars. They’re on tour. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Monday, 05 October 2009

Stereophonics Announce Welsh Summer Spectacular

Kelly jones said at the end of his storming gig in Cardiff castle that they had something spectacular planned for next summer. "next summer, we're going to do something big in Wales. It's going to be something big, special and something we've never done before." The rumour and speculation mills are going nuts. Is it a festival? Is it an underwater gig? Who knows. More to follow.  

Written by: Stereoboard.com | Date: Saturday, 03 October 2009

The Stranglers Tickets & Tour Dates Announced

Iconic seventies punk icons The Stranglers have announced their return in 2010 with a UK Tour - dubbed 'Decades Apart'. Hitting the road in February and March 2010, the original line-up minus Hugh Corwell (replaced by John Ellis in 1990, who was later replaced by Baz Warne in 2000) will perform 16 dates across the land kicking off at the O2 Academy, Glasgow on February 26th. Click here for tickets

Written by: Stereoboard.com | Date: Thursday, 01 October 2009

Psychedelic Furs Cancel UK Tour Dates

Since the 80s appeared to have vomited all over the high street recently, it’s only fair that some quality undigested chunks of 80s goodness splat into the music scene.

Written by: Saard | Date: Thursday, 01 October 2009

Tragedy (All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees) Tour Announced

Could there be a more fitting tribute to the melodiously shrieking man-banshees (manshees?) of pop, than the face-melting power-chords and skin-tight silver lycra of glam metal? If there is, we don’t want to know about it. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Thursday, 01 October 2009

Har Mar Superstar UK Tour Dates & Tickets Revealed

Still insisting he’s sexy, still looking like a mutant splicing of Ron Jeremy and Marty the dancing landlord from The Big Lebowski, Har Mar Superstar is back, on the stage, on tour and on your face, given half the chance. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Vasco Rossi Announces First Ever UK Show & Tickets

Vasco Rossi is a Godzilla-sized rock star in his home country of Italy. Inaccurately dubbed the Italian Bruce Springsteen (by me, just then), Rossi has an uncanny knack of selling out vast stadiums with little effort. Rossi has published 21 successful albums and written over 130 songs and the distinctive Rossi shout has been echoing around Italy since 1977. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2009

The Sunshine Underground Tour Dates & Tickets Announced

Getting bigger and bigger all the time, The Sunshine Underground are threatening to hit a mainstream near you soon. They might have to change their name. The band are noted for not enjoying big gigs but rather smaller, more intimate venues in which they can create a house-party atmosphere. Let’s see how that translates as their venues get progressively larger like an embarrassing public woody. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2009

David Gray Tickets & Tour Dates Announced

David Gray, a musician able to produce A) songs so remorselessly sad that the Government were considering releasing his albums as a method of population control, and B) songs so unflinchingly cheery that the grins can only be removed from fans’ faces with a crow-bar, has announced a tour. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Lily Allen & Dizzee Rascal Joint Tour Dates Announced

You wouldn’t naturally pair up Dizzee Rascal and Lily Allen, but then that whole pork and apple combo was an accident that worked really well too. We’re not speculating on who is pork and who is apple. That’s your job. Pork & Apple will be touring together in March. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Bon Jovi O2 Arena Residency Rumoured

Bon Jovi are rumoured to be in discussions with promoters for a 20 night residency at London's 02 Arena for later this year. Although the rumours have been officially played down by promoters AEG Live, the rumours of 20 dates at the venue between November and December 2009 are spreading like wildfire around the Internet.

Written by: Stereoboard.com | Date: Friday, 25 September 2009

Robbie Williams Tickets & Tour Dates 2010

Good ol’ cheeky ol’ pop-chappy Robbie Williams has donned his touring truss and is taking that thing that he does around the UK, in a tour kind of thing. When he last toured, Williams sold more than 1.6 Million tickets in a single day. Similar madness is due to ensue again. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Friday, 25 September 2009

Robbie Williams Roundhouse Tickets Sell Out in Seconds

Robbie Williams' live return for the BBC Electric Proms in London sold out this morning in a matter of seconds. In what will be his first live UK performance in over 3 years, the singer is marking a sensational comeback at the 2000 capacity Roundhouse in Camden on October 20th. Click here for Robbie Williams Tickets

Written by: Stereoboard.com | Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Graham Coxon Tour Dates & Tickets Announced

Graham Coxon is a show-off. There, I said it. Blur wasn’t enough for him, oh no, he had to go off and produce a range of critically acclaimed, fan-favourite albums, including a concept album ‘The Spinning Top’ that’s actually good (honestly, who does that? Concept albums are supposed to be crap). He’s a painter, can play a million instruments, records albums on his tod, designs the artwork for his sleeves and let’s face it, he probably fights crime in his spare time. He’s on tour with his new group too. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Peter Andre Mammoth UK Tour & Tickets Revealed

Nice but dim pop chunk Peter Andre is touring. Possibly as some form of therapy but more likely to keep his kids, Gherkin, Jampot and Princess Handbag (I think that’s their names) in pot noodles and nappies. He needs the cash, bless him. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2009

The Twang Tickets & Tour Dates Announced

Formerly ‘Neon Twang’, now just ‘The Twang’, due to reasons, the Midlands musical monkeys have confirmed details of a new single which is an encouraging sign, and a series of UK tour dates. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Kelly Clarkson Tour Dates & Tickets Announced

American idol winning pop-moppet Kelly Clarkson whose records sales officially reached ‘silly’ some time ago, who keeps her awards in a skip and brushes her teeth with money (probably) is touring for her latest album ‘All I ever Wanted.’ Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Take That to Reunite with Robbie Williams?

Apparently, they will be for at least one night. That’s the Children in Need gig at the Royal Albert Hall this Autumn. Organised by Gary Barlow, the night will feature Take That performing with the original line-up. This includes Robbie Williams.

Written by: Saard | Date: Monday, 21 September 2009

Glastonbury 2010 line up rumours and tickets

Humungus bands, wrestling with uncooperative tents, night-time Mexican shout-waves from tent to tent, being completely lost, weird art, the ability to say “oh, yeah, I saw them in Glastonbury back in 2010”, mad circus folk, porta-loos that defy description, silly hats, midnight antics, the which-band-to-see dilemma, dancing by firelight, strange and wonderful people, smugly swigging from your own stash of booze, discovering new bands, avoiding arrest, more music and, very possibly, mud.

Written by: Saard | Date: Monday, 21 September 2009

OK Go Tour Dates & Tickets Revealed

OK GO, the band made furiously famous by an Internet memey wotsit, are on the tour. If you’re not already a fan of the flamboyantly dressed and imaginatively moving Chicago band, you’ll probably know them anyway by the U Tube classic that is their single “Here it Goes Again” Four blokes dancing with treadmills? Catchy Song? That’s them. Click here for tickets.

Written by: Saard | Date: Monday, 21 September 2009