21 May 2013
It's generally considered important to have a name that Googles well these days. Some acts disagree and go with names...
Paramore have added a second Wembley Arena date to their upcoming UK tour, having sold out the first in just...
If you failed to get tickets for Rokia Traoré's sold out show at Cargo in London this week, never fear,...
Soundgarden will be coming back to the UK and Ireland later this year, so that's good, right? Well, it would...
20 May 2013
London's Islington Academy is ten this year, and so has invited Alkaline Trio - who played at the Academy's launch...
17 May 2013
Hi, stadiums of the world; One Direction are going to tour you next year. Not (to the #disappointment of many,...
That Beck is going to have a stab at playing his new sheet music pamphlet, 'Song Reader', live. He won't be...
16 May 2013
Scotland may not have its independence, but one thing it does have is Susan Boyle. Playing live within it, several...
15 May 2013
Amid super-speculative chit chat that she might be 'with child' again, Beyonce - uncharacteristically, it has to be said -...
As she's prone to do, nonchalant pop enfant and BFF-to-the-stars Sky Ferreira has set a 'rare' and 'unmissable' live date...
Blushing folk artiste Johnny Flynn, who's favoured acting over other 'artistic modes' of late, has shocked the world to its...
14 May 2013
Increasingly poppy rock faves Paramore say they are "psyched" to have revealed a new set of shows they're playing in...
Holy crap (To borrow a phrase from Metal Hammer)! Avenged Sevenfold are touring the UK next winter! For the first...
Only days after sharing details of their first LP, 'Howlin', Jagwar Ma have unfortunately had to cancel appearances at this...
13 May 2013
Remember when everything wasn't 'Chic feat Nile Rodgers this' and 'Chic feat Nile Rodgers that'? No, nor do I, but...
'Gnarly' rap pack Odd Future have added a new show at The Forum in London as part (well, all) of...
Newsflash: JJ Doom, the bi-headed rap beast that is DOOM and Jneiro Jarel, are playing a special, rare, intimate show...
CMU Approved last July, Sic Alps are back and advertising their new EP, 'She's On Top', via a 'top-of-the-pop-tart jam'...
Reykjavik and London-based management, PR and booking agency Projekta will be showcasing some of its artists in the British capital...
7 May 2013
That DJ Shadow will play an All Basses Covered show - a fairly self-explanatorily-titled set of mixed genres - at...
Given recent incidents, one might think rapper Danny Brown would take a break from playing live for a while. But...
Alt-pop luminaries Youth Lagoon and CocoRosie will share headlining credits at a show at London's Barbican on 20 Jul. Youth...
3 May 2013
So Diplo has clarified the identity of Jack U, the 'mystery act' on the bill at his US-based Mad Decent...
R&B superstar Kelis is playing the relatively tiny (relative to her R&B superstardom, that is) Proud Camden on 30 May....
2 May 2013
Sultans-of-'Sing' Travis have listed what's to be their first London-based show since 2008. They'll play the capital's Islington Assembly Hall...
Chicago garage-punks The Orwells, authors of 2012 LP 'Remember When', are going to play live in Britain for the first...
1 May 2013
A CMU SNAP Of The Day back in 2009, A Grave With No Name (essentially the 'solo with occasional collaborators'-type...
Pop quartet 5ive - that's Scott, Ritchie, Abz and Sean - are to capitalise on their 'Big Reunion'-assisted celebrity (mark...
Great Escape Dome headliners Bastille are rushing back to 'the road' in winter to play fifteen "imaginatively titled" 'Bad Blood...
30 April 2013
The CMU Approved Bass Drum Of Death - that's John Barrett and band - are playing away at a variety...
Peter Doherty's Babyshambles say they're starting a tour in September, which doesn't - given past no-shows and dramas - necessarily...
29 April 2013
The band Glasvegas - who reneged on earlier hints that their third LP might be titled 'Whoever Shouts The Loudest',...
Big-time bass artistes Mount Kimbie have sportingly arranged to play a show at one of their "old haunts", the Bussey...
Shady shades-maker Ray-Ban is paying five brand-appropriate bands - Spector, Splashh, Theme Park, Willy Moon (who isn't technically a band,...
26 April 2013
Mogwai will play their original score to directors Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's 2006 film 'Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait'...
So, Capital FM has invited Justin Timberlake to MC its Summertime Ball ('Suit & Tie' optional), the same one the...
Sean-a Paul will play a pair of dutty live dates in London and Manchester in June. The 'Deport Them' hitmaker will...
25 April 2013
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson has had an idea. And if you're in New York next month, you can see that...
The usually LA-based Thundercat will be in London on 13 Jul, playing live at a party on the same day...
While the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Savages are banning their fans from taking shaky photos and videos at gigs, Beyonce...
23 April 2013
Too-big-for-their-boots pop lotharios Blue have listed a new set of 'headlining' live dates. You'll remember that the group withdrew from...
Serial starlet-dater (and singer) John Mayer has added a show at The O2 in London as the only British date...
Staying with the white knuckle thrill ride that is Bieber's on-off (and potentially on, again) flame Selena Gomez's 56 date...
22 April 2013
Aged (well, aged 70) Americana great Van Dyke Parks is to mark the release of his new LP, 'Songs Cycled',...
The girls of sassy pop trio Haim have said that they're "sad" and "angry" over having to postpone their five-date...
19 April 2013
The programme for the 2013 BBC Proms has been announced, with a vast range of classical music events set to...
Pete Tong has announced that he will launch a new clubnight, called Le Grand Bazaar, at Ushuaïa in Ibiza this...
Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro, guitarist in Neil Young's band Crazy Horse, has reasoned that the quartet's June European tour, part of...
So, punk paramours Savages and Bo Ningen are to co-host a night of Dadaist slam prose on 29 May. Take...
18 April 2013
Liam Gallagher is casting his Beady Eye over Manchester, London and Glasgow in June, by which I mean the band,...
