News featuring Florence and The Machine
The following news stories mention Florence and The Machine. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated within the last hour.
’10 Sep 3 Fri
Friday 3rd September
“Paul Morley on music: the Mercury music prize”
It might turn a blind eye to frivolous pop and conceptual sound-art, but the Mercury is diligent in its balancing of everything in between
As you may have noticed, on Tuesday this week there will be a new Mercury album of the year, the 19th. Even though I spent much of the early 90s, when the award began, thinking that it was sponsored by Freddie Mercury – which seemed pretty decent and enlightened of him, and which somehow seemed to make sense of the first two winners being Primal Scream and Suede, and why, in 1994, M People beat Pulp, Blur, the Prodigy and a still-enraged Paul Weller – I've grown to accept it as a regular part of the rock season.
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“Paul Morley Showing Off ... Ms Dynamite, M People and Portico Quartet”
Paul Morley introduces the Mercury prize nominees and winners that make up his prizes and awards discussion panel
After a couple of decades, there are a couple of hundred acts to choose from when it comes to assembling a panel to discuss what it was like to be nominated for, win, or not win, the Mercury prize. It's quite a club, efficiently reflecting one of the original ideas for the Mercury, for it to map out the evolving state of British music, vaguely rooted in a sensibility that is more indie than industry – one that fancies itself as cutting-edge and that links Peelworld with BBC 6 music, one that readers of Kerrang! or Gramophone magazine might feel profoundly exiled from, one that does as much as it can without alienating comfortable mainstream audiences to involve music that is other than cleverish pop, hip urban or indie rock.
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’10 Aug 31 Tue
Tuesday 31st August
“Linkin Park Will Perform 'The Catalyst' At 2010 VMAs”
The MTV Video Music Awards air live on September 12 at 9 p.m. ET.
By James Montgomery
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’10 Aug 27 Fri
Friday 27th August
“How music festivals are singing the changes”
Live music events have quickly become a key route to profitability for the record industry
They are hot and crowded or sodden and mud-caked; someone will be digging their drunken elbow into your back or dancing ineptly on your feet, while in the distance a band the size of matchstick men are playing… people who hate music festivals will go to any lengths to avoid them. But people who love them will travel to the ends of the earth to get there – and the latter are definitely in the majority.
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’10 Aug 23 Mon
Monday 23rd August
“PHOTOS: Goldfrapp, Kate Nash, La Roux, Lissie And More At Britain’s V Festival”
One glance at the bill for this year's V Festival, and it's easy to see how the annual double venue music spectacular sold out in a mere 90 minutes. From Elly Jackson's giant black druid-esque hood, to Kate Nash's fringed unitard, the theme for the festival's second day seemed to be "Outrageous Outfits". None of the artists, however, could compare to Goldfrapp's bizarre —but wonderful—jacket that looked as though it was made from discarded VHS tapes. Flip through to see Lissie, Florence And The Machine, Mika, The Temper Trap and more highlights from the V Festival. More »
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“Eminem To Perform At 2010 MTV VMAs”
The VMA veteran returns to the stage with eight nominations from his best-selling Recovery.
By Gil Kaufman
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“Kanye West Promises New Song Every Week Through Christmas”
'It's about the fans. No more holding back,' he tweeted, announcing the G.O.O.D. Fridays initiative.
By Gil Kaufman
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’10 Aug 21 Sat
Saturday 21st August
“Florence And The Machine play 'brand new song' at V Festival”
Plus singer dedicates song to Dizzee Rascal
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’10 Aug 20 Fri
Friday 20th August
“Will Zola Jesus herald the second coming of goth?”
Meet the prodigious, chocolate-covered Stridulum II singer-songwriter who "dived head first into weird stuff" from her first day in high school
Goth has played the long game. After 25 years of lurking patiently in suburban graveyards, suddenly it's all black lipstick and dry ice again. Witness the emergence of hipster goth siren Zola Jesus, AKA 21-year-old Nika Rosa Danilova – an imperious ice queen in the Siouxsie/Diamanda mould who's currently making music bloggers go weak at the knees.
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’10 Aug 19 Thu
Thursday 19th August
“Florence Welch - Florence Welch Plans Potty Album”
Florence Welch will be "banging pots and pans" to write her new album. The Florence And The Machine singer says her group's performances at this year's V Festival...
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