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• THE mighty Orb will be round the charts again with a new album, out on September 7. Baghdad Batteries sees the return of the electronica l...

• SPEEDING towards the charts with her new album Travelling Like The Light is hot tip VV Brown. The singer combines Elvis style rock and rol...

THE Loughborough Trader Xtra's last edition was printed this week. Upbeat will continue to be carried until the last editions of the Bur...

• BRIT award winner Florence And The Machine finally releases her anticipated debbut album this week. Lungs contains the single Dog Days Are...

IN AN announcement today, Trinity Mirror Midlands has revealed plans to restructure its business. The plans take in the closure of a number ...

• ELECTRIFYING R&B star Jordin Sparks is gearing up with another attack on the charts. Her new single, Battlefield, is out this week, wi...

• THE latest album from Mars Volta is out of this world. Octahedron, the experimental metal band’s fifth studio effort, is described as thei...

• YOU’D be mad as a hatter not to pick up a copy of Kasabian’s new album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. The newly-released LP, the Leice...

• KICKING off her campaign for superstardom this week is Little Boots. The hotly-tipped electropop star, real name Victoria Hesketh, put out...

• FAITH No More? Not any more! To coincide with the legendary metal group’s reformation for this year’s Download Festival in Castle Doningto...

• ONE to get fans of quality angular indie all a-flutter is Quicken The Heart, the third album from Maximo Park. The album, which features t...

• HERE’S one to get your teeth into - Candy, the new single from Scottish indie rocker Paolo Nutini is out this week. The track is a taster ...

• THE magnificent Marmaduke Duke released their royally riproaring second album this week. The electronica album, Duke Pandamonium, the seco...

• OOPS she did it again - Britney has released yet another cheeky, catchy electropop single sure to ride high in the charts. The new track, ...

• GOODIE! American hip hop singer Ciara is back, sexyback, with a saucy new single. The raunchy Love Sex Magic, a duet with Justin Timberlak...

• DANIEL Merriweather, famous for his work on Mark Ronson’s hit version of The Smiths’ Stop Me and Wiley’s Cash In My Pocket, releases his d...

• FRESH new talent The Virgins pop their album cherry with a self-titled release on April 20. The album by the New York rockers, tipped for ...

• COLOURFUL popstar Pink is set to release the latest single from her latest album, Funhouse. Please Don’t Leave Me, the follow-up to chart-...

• NEXT stop, the top of the charts! Metro Station’s self-titled debut album is now in stores. The pumping electronic emo album features hit ...

• THE latest act from Sweden, the land of pop, to plunder and pillage our charts are back. Peter, Bjorn And John, the act behind the whistli...

• FOLLOWERS of hip hop are sure be left in a right state when rapper Flo Rida finally releases his new track on March 23. The track, featuri...

• IRISH superstars U2 have released their new album, No Line On The Horizon. The LP contains the hit single, Get On Your Boots. • American I...

• ELECTRO geniuses The Prodigy are set to take over the charts with their new album. Invaders Must Die, in stores now, sees the group return...

• DIVA Annie Lennox is set to release her first ever solo retrospective, The Annie Lennox Collection. The former Eurythmics singer’s compila...

• LAS Vegas band The Killers are hoping to rock it with their new single, Spaceman. The track, in stores now, is the latest cut from their i...

• YOU can’t have enough of a good thing - so Erasure are releasing a new expanded version of their classic compilation album Pop! Total Pop...

• PUT your shoes on, brave the wintry weather and head down to the shops to pick up a copy of U2’s new single Get On Your Boots. The throbbi...

• A SIGHT for sore eyes this week is the return of Scot rockers The View, who have their sights set on the charts with their second album ou...

• ARCHDUKES of art rock Franz Ferdinand have continued their saga with a new single, Ulysses. The track, a funky slice of alternative rock, ...

• ROLL up! Roll up! The ringmaster of pop Britney Spears is again coming to town, in the form of her new single, Circus. Circus, the latest ...

• LA punk band The Bronx are set to knock your block off when they headline the infamous Shred Yr Face tour in 2009. Following the release o...

• MEXICAN acoustic duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela are due to follow up their cult classic debut album in 2009. The pair have left their adopted home...

• FALL Out Boy’s fourth album, Folie A Deux, marks a maturing of the group’s immensely popular sound. Taking their distinctive pop punk rock...

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• POP pickers can thank this column for an early Christmas present this week - as we introduce next year’s big thing, The Kixx. A four-piece...

• THE dream return to the charts Metallica had with their number one album Death Magnetic is set to contuinue with the release of their new ...

• STADIUM fillers The Killers have released their eagerly-awaited third album Day & Age. The Las Vegas band’s LP, the follow-up to 2006’...

• RESURGENT Britpoppers The Verve have released a new single, the self-produced Rather Be. The track, taken from the group’s number one albu...