News Round Up Of The Week: In a round up of some of this weeks events in “mainstream” music here is a selection of news. Oh joy.
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Kasabian new album on soundcloud: Kasabian have uploaded their new album ‘Velociraptor” to Soundcloud allowing fans to listen before they buy in full. This seems like a more common occurring way of promotion. Check it out here: http://soundcloud.com/kasabian/sets/velociraptor/s-5O7Co
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Arctic Monkeys have unleashed their new video which you can watch below. If that’s your thing.
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Coachella festival: Rumours that Radiohead and No Doubt are booked for Coachella 2012 have started to surface. AEG decided to expand the festival over two weekends.
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Soma Records have unearthed a lost Daft Punk track called “Drive”. It will appear on the Soma Records 3 Disc 20 Years Compilation Disc
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It appears that The Beatles refused to play to any segregated audiences back in their hey-day.
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This was just a quick collection of news pieces from the last couple of days. Sources below if you want to read more about the sections we covered.
Sources: http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/09/video-arctic-monkeys-suck-it-and-see/
http://pitchfork.com/news/44021-listen-lost-daft-punk-track-drive/
Also for one last tit bit – Another Jack White and Insane Clown Posse song (the B side to the other) has been uploaded online. Just updating that piece of news.
Liking the news updates, keep ’em coming.
You think we’re getting the level of variety right to a degree? (I know we could report about a few more genres I guess – I hope the combination of older stuff and newer whilst trying to cut any gimmicky tabloid like stories shows.)