Category Archives: Music

Playlist: 25th October

The playlist is out now. 3 moves up on playlist this week: Manic Street Preachers move up to A-list. The Kooks and Lana Del Rey both move up to Daytime plays. And 1 addition: Hard-Fi – Bring It On (24/10/11) New track from the band’s 3rd album ‘Killer Sounds’, which is currently being used on [...]

Playlist: 20th October

The playlist is out now. R.E.M. – We All Go Back To Where We Belong (14/11/11) New track on REM’S new career-spanning best-of released in November. The 2-CD, 40-track set is titled ‘Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011’. It’s the first time much of the band’s groundbreaking 80s catalogue has featured on [...]

Playlist: 12th October

The playlist is out now. Kasabian – Re-wired (28/11/11) The funky ‘Re-wired’ is single number two from the #1 album ‘Velociraptor’. The Pierces – Kissing You Goodbye (23/10/11) New single from debut album ‘You & I’. Following a summer of festivals and a support slot with Coldplay at the Roundhouse, the Alabama-born sisters tour the [...]

Playlist: 4th October

The playlist is out now. Adele – Rumour Has it (14/11/11) New single, from the phenomenon that is ‘21’. Snow Patrol – This Isn’t Everything You Are (13/11/11) New track from Snow Patrol’s ‘Fallen Empires’ album, which is released 14th November. Ed Sheeran – Lego House (14/11/11) From the Suffolk singer-songwriter’s debut album ‘+’. Kooks [...]

Radio Academy adds another rock music legend to Festival line-up

Another exciting name has joined the already stellar line up taking part in this year’s Radio Academy Festival. Rock music god Pete Townshend will give his keynote speech in Salford later this month looking at the current state of music media and attendees will also get the chance to quiz The Who guitarist in a [...]