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Travel Agenda: Tenerife Rock Coast Festival; Mount Everest treks; Barbados; Museums at Night festival; Monastero Santa Rosa hotel
Friday 11 May 2012
Where to go and what to know
Album: Marilyn Manson, Born Villain (Cooking Vinyl)
Sunday 29 April 2012
On the first listen to Born Villain, you notice references to Shakespeare, Baudelaire and the Greek myths. Say what you like about Marilyn Manson: you don't get that stuff from Slipknot.
Album: Santigold, Master of My Make-Believe (Atlantic)
Friday 20 April 2012
"You can be the widget in my turbo!" offers Santigold on "Go!", the staccato, punchy groove that opens the long-awaited follow-up to her dynamic 2008 debut.
Lady Gaga announces UK gig dates
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Lady Gaga has announced two UK dates - when she will be supported by glam rockers The Darkness - as part of her world tour.
Album: The Futureheads, Rant (Nul)
Friday 30 March 2012
Kudos to The Futureheads for attempting Rant, an entirely a cappella album of R&B covers, traditional folk songs and rearranged morsels from their back catalogue.
Tommy Lee thinks albums make no sense
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Motley Crue's Tommy Lee thinks creating albums "makes no sense".
Brett Anderson: 'Suede need to make an album'
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Suede frontman Brett Anderson says the band could split up again if they can't make a new album worth releasing.
Blondie, Somerset House, London
Monday 18 July 2011
The audience for tonight's gig includes many who were not even born when the New York band adopted their Blondie moniker in 1975, but everyone knows all of the words anyway.
Album: Blondie, Panic of Girls (EMI / Eleven Seven)
Sunday 03 July 2011
Blondie are the most reluctantly retro of bands, their leader a heritage heroine who hates being treated like a museum piece.
Suede - A stylish return for the wild ones
Friday 10 June 2011
Suede's comeback gig last year was supposed to be a one-off. Now they're re-releasing their hits and headlining festivals. Elisa Bray chatted at Brett Anderson's house
Suede, Brixton Academy, London
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Many old shots of Brett Anderson posing coquettishly as a self-regarding dandy have been published in recent weeks, though none can prepare us for the sight of Suede's singer with arms heroically stretched out, encompassing his fans' adulation. And this is during "Breakdown", one of the less memorable tracks from their debut album, which now closes with a punishing coda to replace the original's yearning close.
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