Trendy Bands

Amy Speace Launches European Tour
Wildflower Records artist Amy Speace will be touring throughout November in the UK, Germany, Austria and Luxemburg in support of her recently released album ‘Songs For Bright Street’ in German through O-tone/Edel and the rest of Europe through ADA/Ryko.
It follows radio airplay across Germany, with some stations spinning the songs from [...]

The Waterboys will be releasing their latest single, “Everybody Takes a Tumble” on March 19th in the UK. The single is off of their new album, Book of Lightning, out on April 2nd.
Mike Scott has been playing music in the folk, celtic and sometimes rock style Waterboys since 1983 when he formed the band. After [...]

Hayward Williams‘ Another Sailor’s Dream is a freewheeling, shotgun wedding of folk, blues and rootsy country rock, all filled with a gorgeous blend of ache, gristle and whiskey-toned gruffness. The album is comprised of songs that walk a perfect line between the sweet and bitter, and the sentimental and cynical, and is perfectly bookended by [...]

Let me start this out by saying: Slash is the coolest guitarist playing music today. I don’t care what anyone says, that’s my opinion and I’m stickin’ to it.
Now, on to Slash news. Apparently he’s set to write his autobiography with the help of ghost writer Anthony Bozza. Although the words ‘Slash’ and ‘memoires’ probably [...]

Dave Navarro is truly a rock blog, podcast and video pioneer. He’s probably one of the busiest musicians not only actively playing rock music but also on the net. For the last few years his blog 6767.com has been a place for his fans and the curious to see what rock musicians get up to [...]

The Horrors are gearing up for a UK tour and if you haven’t heard them yet, why not give them a listen on their Myspace page?
Their music has a vintage punk, rock and surf sound and at times is reminiscent of The Doors and The Damned. With their fashionable looks and strange and unique [...]

After a simple search on Google News using the search term “band” the first story to come up in the queue was about Canadian country band Ambush. Apparently they have just been announced the winner of CMT Canada’s reality show ‘Plucked’, which by the way I had never heard of until now. It’s funny [...]

For those of you who want to see the new band Rock Star Supernova on their first North American tour, I would highly recommend that you book your tickets sooner than later. The dates have been announced and I bet there’s a few people out there curious to see what all the fuss is [...]

Trendy Bands Podcast #2 is out with more great bands for your listening pleasure. Random chat includes Dave talking about seeing the bands the Anti Nowhere League and Guns on the Roof play in Oxford, the new Robin Hood series, Jenny gives a shout out to Camp Freddy, Dave Navarro, Billy Morrison, Slash and the [...]

Remember Phil from Rock Star: Supernova? Well if you were following the show then you’ll remember him as the tall singer with model like looks who stayed in long enough to be able to sing Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’ with Jason Newsted on bass. If you were wondering what happened to him [...]