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Amy Winehouse's Death Leads to Speculation About Third Album

Yui Mok, PA Photos Less than 48 hours after the sad demise of Amy Winehouse, talk has already turned to posthumous releases of music she was working on before her death. Winehouse had released two albums but was preparing for a third, with the demos being recorded during time spent in Saint Lucia. It now seems inconceivable that an LP ...

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The Strokes Already Back in the Studio

Wendy Redfern, Redferns Given the trials and tribulations that resulted in the delay of the Strokes fourth album, 'Angles,' it's somewhat surprising to find their members already willing to confine themselves in the studio with each other so soon after its release. Yet according to Nikolai Fraiture that's exactly what's happened. The NME ...

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Muse and U2 Appear Live Together in Brazilian Bar

Daniel Boczarski, Redferns / Stephane De Sakutin, AFP/Getty Images Local drinkers in Sao Paulo's intimate Bar Secreto were left stunned last week as members of U2 and Muse turned up at the bar, fresh from finishing the South American leg of U2's '360' World Tour, and began to play live. The groups had been playing at the city gigantic ...

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Elbow Too Busy 'Messing About' to Rehearse, Admits Guy Garvey

PA Photos With fifth album 'Build A Rocket Boys!' out this week and the group set to embark on their largest ever UK tour next week, you'd expect Elbow to be working with fervour in the practice room to ready themselves for dates including two nights at London's gigantic O2 Arena. Not so however, according to front man Guy Garvey who ...

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Two Door Cinema Club Announce Largest UK Dates Yet

Jakubaszek, Getty Images For all the talk and hype surrounding the likes of Jessie J and James Blake on this year's 'BBC Sound Of 2011' List, it would appear that those who made the cut in 2010 are still prospering over 12 months on from their initial push into the public domain. For solid evidence look no further than Northern Irish trio ...

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Foo Fighters Announce New Album Release Date

SonyBMG Foo Fighters have announced that their as-yet-untitled seventh studio album will be released in the UK on April 11. The LP will be their first of new material since 2007's 'Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace' topped the UK Album Charts and became nominated for five Grammy Awards. Long labelled as one of the "nicest men in rock," ...

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Muse's Matt Bellamy and Kate Hudson 'Get Engaged'

Getty Images Following the recently reported news that Muse frontman Matt Bellamy and Hollywood actress Kate Hudson are to have a child, there has now been fresh speculation that the pair have also recently become engaged. Hudson, 14 weeks pregnant, and her rock star beau Bellamy are believed to have held a secret engagement party at an ...

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