MUSIC NEWS - Labrinth On Tour, New Flo Rida Single

It's Monday again, which means more music...

Labrinth Announces UK Tour
On Tuesday the hip-hop artist Labrinth announced dates for a tour of the UK in October with his hit show "Electronic Earth". The tour will visit Bristol, Bournemouth, London, Norwich, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle.
For the full story, including tour dates, click here.

Flo Rida Releases New Single "Whistle"
On Wednesday, Atlantic Records announced that Flo Rida's new single "Whistle" had been released, two weeks earlier than scheduled, "due to popular demand". If you were one of the people "demanding" this song, feel ashamed. It's boring. Yawn.

Yellow Submarine On Blu-ray
In March, Apple Corps Ltd. announced that the Beatles film Yellow Submarine had been digitally restored and would be released on Blu-ray and DVD. Since Monday, the classic rock film has been available to buy.

Trailer For New Muse Album and Tour Announced
Move over Flo Rida, this is real music news! For a long time now, hints have circulated about an upcoming Muse album. But a trailer released on Wednesday made it official; a new Muse album, titled The 2nd Law will be released September this year. The album follows a three year wait after The Resistance, which was released in 2009. Judging by the trailer, it appears that the new album will revolve around the theme of depleting energy resources and, like The Resistance, will continue the use of orchestral sound with synthesized overdrive of Origins of Symmetry.

Following this trailer, Muse announced on Friday a UK and Europe tour later this year. For tour dates and tickets, click here.

The Killers Album Trailer

The boys from Teignmouth weren't the only ones to release an album trailer this week, The Killers put this teaser out on the net on Friday. The music sounds alot like the rest of The Killer's work, so I'm hoping we'll see a return to the standard of Hot Fuss, and not another disappointment like Day and Age.

Virtual Elvis Presley

The classic rock 'n' roll singer is to be resurrected using a virtual likeness created by Digital Domain Media Group. The likeness will be used at live shows, on TV and online.

For more on this story, click here. 

Trombone Shorty Featured On Upcoming Zac Brown Band Album

Trombone Shorty, as well as Orleans Avenue's Dan Oestreicher and Tim McFatter are featured on the upcoming album by Zac Brown Band, Uncaged. They are performing on the track "Overnight". The album will be released on the 10th July.

For more on this story, click here.

That's all the news for this week. If you've got anything to say on the above stories, or if there's anything we've missed, let us know in the comments.

Tom :)

SINGLES CHART - Week Ending 10th June

I'm not a big commercial fan, but I will post this and the album charts each week and let you know my thoughts.

1. Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band - Sing
Not a bad song to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. Has to be said though, the artwork to me feels like a rip-off of the artwork that accompanied Muse's 2009 album "The Resistance" and it's singles. This is it's second week in the charts, and is up 10 from last week to be number 1.

2. Flo Rida - Whistle
Don't like this song. It's boring. First week in the charts.

3. fun. - We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monae)
Not too bad, quite catchy, although I'm not a fan of time changes in the middle of songs.

4. Rudimental - Feel The Love (feat. John Newham)
Meh, too much computer synths etc. Don't like it. Has been in the charts two weeks, down 3.

5. Usher - Scream
Ditto. New this week.

6. DJ Fresh - The Power (feat. Dizzy Rascal)
Ditto. New this week.

7. Carly Rae Johnson - Call Me Maybe
Avoid at all costs, although I know Kieron is a big fan. Each to their own I guess. Been in the charts 11 weeks (11?! who's buying this rubbish!), down 2.

8. Coldplay & Rihanna - Princess of China
Not bad, really cool music video though. Tenth week, up 5.

9. Rihanna - Where Have You Been?
To answer the question, anywhere that isn't within hearing distance of this song. Tenth week, down 3.

10. Alex Clare - Too Close
And we end, finally, on a good song. Clare has a great, unique voice and this song is very catchy. Love it. Ninth week, down 3.

Tom :)