Jordi Vidal, Redferns "This is one of our best festival days ever, just to be in the crowd," gushed permanently high-on-life Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne during the band's Thursday night, top-billing set at Primavera Sound. "We've seen some amazing bands, John Lydon and his Public Image Ltd, Nick Cave and Grinderman, f---ing Suicide. I ...

PA Photos Following a successful two-night stand at London's cavernous Olympia last November, Primal Scream's 20th anniversary 'Screamadelica' celebrations swung back into the capital again on Friday night for the first of a pair of shows at London's O2 Academy Brixton, a venue that first heard these tunes two decades ago. It was the ...

Back-slapping industry ego-stroking contests or glamorous celebrations of genuine artistic talent, awards shows are a contentious phenomenon. Now bigger than ever before and televised across the world, they are the perfect stage for artists to show everyone just how great they are, and, if we're lucky, make a bit of a fool of themselves, too. ...

Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix's 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)' has been voted as the best guitar riff ever by the users of musicians' website MusicRadar.com. The track which topped the charts way back in 1970 received 14% of the votes cast and edged Guns N' Roses' classic rock ballad 'Sweet Child O' Mine' into second place. The last time the ...

Pomp rockers Muse are now considered to be a front runner for one of the remaining two headline slots at the 2010 Glastonbury Festival. Now that Irish stadium legends U2 have been confirmed as the first headliner of the 40th Anniversary event, speculation is mounting as who will join them at the top of the bill. Muse have long been mentioned in ...

Following last summer's successful Blur reunion, guitarist Graham Coxon has said that he's hoping for more from the band in 2010. Speaking in an interview with NME magazine the Coxon said he was up for the prospect of another get together. "Everyone has gone back to their day jobs from the Blur thing," he said. "Damon's really involved with ...

After a hugely successful 2009 Florence Welch can't wait to usher in 2010. The singer is planning to start the New Year in a recording studio -- with her band Florence and the Machine -- in order to begin work on the follow up to her breakthrough debut 'Lungs.' The south London singer told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat that everything is pretty much ready ...