Topic: Arctic Monkeys

Briton dies after fall at Serbia music festival

A young British music fan was killed when he fell off the ramparts of a fortress at Petrovaradin in northern Serbia, which is hosting the Exit international music festival, Beta news agency reported Saturday.The 22-year-old from London, who was only identified by ...
remarkably rich year for music", one in which the epic melancholy of Elbow's fourth album gets recognition alongside debut efforts from Adele, Laura Marling and the Last Shadow Puppets. Ticking the boxes for the lesser-knowns are folk group Rachel Unthank and the ...
For an award that often divides opinion and prompts questions about the judging criteria, it was perhaps the most popular winner in the 16-year history of the Nationwide Mercury Prize. Garvey dedicated the prize to Bryan Glancy, a close friend and pivotal ...

Josh Homme to produce Arctic Monkeys

Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys are forgoing the rain and wind and heading to the California desert to record songs for their third album. The news comes from the unlikely lips of Josh Homme, frontman for Queens of the Stone Age. "Being Arctic Monkeys, ...
Dubstep artist Burial is the surprise early favourite to claim Britain's prestigious Nationwide Mercury Music Prize, awarded annually for the country's best album, according to bookmakers on Wednesday.Previous winners of the award include Portishead, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys, and ...

Your dad's right, music really IS getting louder

By Bo Wilson, London Lite Last updated at 11:03am on . It becomes psychologically tiring and almost impossible to listen to. " . Oasis was the first band to raise the decibels and recently Arctic Monkeys released material that has pushed up ...
The musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club just released a new album in November. The albums offers us performances by a list of Buena Vista regulars, including Omara Portuondo and the last vocal recording of Ibrahim Ferrer, who died in August, ...
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