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Rick Astley will play a special free show for all NHS frontline staff, Primary Care workers and all blue light staff at the Manchester Arena on October 28th. Those eligible for tickets will be all frontline NHS staff, Primary Care workers plus the emergency services including Ambulance, Fire Brigade and Police across the United Kingdom. [...]

The Cure's Roger O'Donnell will release a new solo album, '2 Ravens', on April 24th and has shared a new track from the release via YouTube which you can watch below. The track, a collaboration with singer Jennifer Pague, is entitled 'The Haunt', which O'Donnell has described as "a song about being left and how [...]

The Pretenders new album, entitled 'Hate For Sale', will be released on May 1st and the band have today shared the first track, 'The Buzz', on YouTube... TRACKLISTING • Hate For Sale • The Buzz • Lightning Man • Turf Accountant Daddy • You Can’t Hurt a Fool • I Didn’t Know When To Stop [...]

To celebrate the track's 30th anniversary ten new interpretations of Adamski's classic 'Killer' have been compiled on a new album, 'Free To Kill Again', which will be released digitally on March 21st and on CD in April. Among the collaborators on the album are Boy George, Leftfield, Nine Hagen and Adrian Sherwood, and all the [...]

Duran Duran have today announced that they will headline the BST Hyde Park 2020 Festival in London's Hyde Park on Sunday July 12th with support from Gwen Stefani and Nile Rodgers & Chic. The show will be the band's first show in London for five years, and will be their only show in capital in [...]

Boy George has today revealed a brand new track, 'Clouds', the first new music he's shared from a forthcoming new solo album entitled 'Geminis Don’t Read The Manual' which is due for release later this year. 'Clouds' is now available digitally from all the major platforms, and is also released as a limited-edition CD HERE [...]

Dave Ball, best known for his work with Soft Cell and The Grid, will publish his autobiography 'Electronic Boy' on June 11th. The book will cover Ball's entire musical journey through childhood to meeting Marc Almond, forming Soft Cell, and conquering the world, to the demise of Soft Cell (and their eventual reunion!) and his [...]

OMD have today announced that they are to play a special date at London's Royal Albert Hall on September 28th. The show is billed under the banner 'Atmospheric & Greatest Hits' and will feature two sets, the first dedicated to atmospheric fan favourite tracks such as 'Stanlow', 'Our System', 'Statues' and 'Ghost Star'; and the [...]

Depeche Mode are to release their documentary and concert film 'SPiRiTS in the Forest' on March 27th. The 4-disc DVD or Blu-Ray packages will include the 'SPiRiTS in the Forest' documentary, the 'LiVE SPiRiTS' performance and CDs containing the soundtrack to 'LiVE SPiRiTS', plus the live audio recordings from the two last shows of Depeche [...]

We are very sad to hear of the passing of David Roback, who co-founded The Rain Parade, Opal and Mazzy Star. Our condolences to his family, friends and fans...