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Currently on its 35th series, BBC2’s Later Live…With Jools Holland remains the unmissable Tuesday night 10pm essential for music fans of all ages backgrounds and tastes.

Coupled with its perfectly timed 11.35pm extended version on Friday nights, the show truly exists as the most visible and consistent champion of quality music on the nation’s TVs …

Radiohead salutes WW1 veteran Harry Patch in support of The Royal British Legion

Inspired by the prophetic words of Britain’s last veteran to have fought in the First World War, British band Radiohead today released a haunting single “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” with all proceeds being donated to The Royal British Legion …

Other Lives’ self-titled, full-length debut was released on April 7th by tbd records, the ATO Records imprint that launched a year ago with the physical release of Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ …

“Natasha Khan of bat for lashes ain’t scared. I love the harpsichord and the sexual ghost voices and bowed saws. This song seems to come from the world of grimm’s fairytales, and I feel like a wolf.” – Thom Yorke (Radiohead) …

Other Lives’ self-titled debut EP will be released by tbd Records on October 21st, 2008 with a full-length album to follow early next year. “Black Tables,” the album’s first single, can be heard on the season premiere of the hit ABC series “Grey’s Anatomy” …

Mark Cope has been around the Oxford music scene for awhile now. Most people here probably became familiar with him and his music when he played guitar in BritPop band The Candyskins …

Mark Ronson’s smash-hit, double-platinum LP ‘Version’ is one of the biggest-selling albums of 2007. Having spawned three epic hit singles – “Stop Me”, “Oh My God” and “Valerie” …

Rhino UK is proud to present a fascinating 39 track, 2 CD set of highlights from the groundbreaking BBC 2 TV music show Later…with Jools Holland – the selections drawn from more recent series of the long running show …

UK singles releases for January 2008:
Singles release dates and information could change! This is not a complete list – other releases could be added.
Go to the bands and artists official websites for the latest release dates, news and information.
7th January
Basshunter – Now You’re Gone
Bodyrox feat Luciana – What Planet You On?
British Sea Power – Waving [...]

UK releases – albums for December 2007:
Album release dates and information could change! This is not a complete list, other releases could be added.
Go to the bands and artists official websites for the latest release dates, news and information.
3rd December
2Pac – Best Of Part 1: Thug, Best Of Part 2: Life
Busta Rhymes – [...]

Handsome Alcopoppers, meet Jamie, Jason, Darren and Neil from Oxford town – collectively known as The Family Machine. Mixing blissed-out melodic pop hits with indie-folk sensibilities, their particular brand of acoustic loveliness has been reported to have “made love to my ears in a sample infused urban folk dream” by one enthused onlooker …

CABIN is a melodic rock band from Louisville, KY led by founding member Noah Hewett-Ball. As the group’s creative fountainhead, Hewett-Ball not only exhibits a masterful writing skill, but a voice that soars with commanding emotion, yet at other times quivers with endearing sincerity. The strength of lyrics and melody are re-enforced by the recently [...]

Organizers have announced that the Live Earth bands and artists set to play the 7/7/07 concert in the USA will be taking place at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
Acts scheduled to perform at the US concert in New Jersey are to include:
AFI, Akon, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Dave Matthews Band, Fall Out Boy, John Mayer, [...]

If you’re a Radiohead fan, you might want to check out Radiohead’s blog Dead Air Space.
Thom York and the boys keep their blog updated fairly frequently with interesting links to other websites, extremely random thoughts and recently there have been posts and photos of them recording in the studio.
Check out Dead Air Space.
http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/
- Jenny May

The V Festival is almost here and the line up this year is one to impress. If you’re looking to buy tickets now, they seem to be close to selling out so you might want to start making plans ASAP! To check ticket availability go to http://www.seetickets.com/see/ or www.ticketmaster.co.uk
For those who are already [...]