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Former Tribes frontman Johnny Lloyd has followed up the release of 'Pilgrims' and 'Dead Beat'  with 'Nowhere To Go' and 'Tomorrow', in turn releasing the whole of his debut EP, 'Pilgrims', this week. 

Pilgrims and Dead Beat had already set the tone for Johnny's solo debut to be a hit, and Nowhere To Go and Tomorrow really conclude this. Both possess the nostalgia and beautiful rawness found within the previous releases, the blunt and overtoned guitaring and the als...

After much deliberation, Brighton rockers Royal Blood have announced their debut album 'Royal Blood' will be released on the 25th August this year. 

Mike and Ben announced the news via their Twitter and Facebook pages this morning:

"Our debut album ‘Royal Blood’ comes out 25/08. Pre-order now from iTunes (US coming soon): http://po.st/RoyalBloodAlbum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3CawE0TNag..."

The news was welcomed with many jubilant replies...

Arcade Fire bring their Worldwide Reflektor tour to the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury this Friday, but RIFFED discovered 10 facts you probably didn't know about ths years Glasto headliners.

1 Arcade Fire named themselves after a story that lead singer Win Butler heard from a childhood friend about an arcade catching on fire.

2 When the band appeared on the Conan O'Brien show, they were almost a member down. As Will Butler had to ask his teacher at Univeris...

Klaxons recently announced tour dates to coincide with the release of their 3rd studio album 'Love Frequency', but this is not just any tour, everything you see on the tour, barring yourselves, the band and the venue, will be made via 3D printing.

Hard to believe yes, but all instruments, amps, mics, everything! Will be created via 3D printing. 3D Printing is a new technology of which images can be processed and printed just like a usual printer, but the outcome will be in 3D form and K...

He may have just reformed with The Libertines, but Pete Doherty is going solo again. Doherty announced four dates over June and July this year earlier this week and for those who missed out on Libertines tickets, there's a minor conselation for you all. Dates for Doherty's tour are as follows:

Jun 25 Wed - Stoke On Trent - The Underground (ST1 4EZ)

Jul 01 Tue - Nottingham - Bodega (NG1 2ED)

Jul 02 Wed - Oxford - O2 Academy Oxford (OX4 1UE)

Jul ...

Welsh lads Catfish and the Bottlemen announced yesterday that their debut album 'The Balcony' will be released on 15th September this year, it's a good job we don't have a balcony, as if we did we'd of fell off with excitement. Van McCann and the band announced this news via Facebook and Twitter yesterday:

"YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LONG WE'VE WAITED TO SAY THIS……..

Nothing makes us more proud to announce that our debut album "The Balcony" is out Sept...

Rumours have been put to bed this morning as August 18th has since been sent in concrete, this being the date The Courteeners will release their fourth studio album 'Concrete Love' and were greated with an emphatic response from fans. Rumours based on a new album have been dotted around for weeks and we even feautured Concrete Love in our top 5 albums to be released this year (http://riffed.webs.com/apps/blog/show/42361834-albums-to-look-forward-to-this-year) before it had even been announced...

The Libertines have followed up their Hyde Park and Bennicassim dates with the announcment of a European tour. The dates are as follows:

Tuesday 30/9/14 - France Paris Zenith

Thursday 2/10/14 - Netherlands Amsterdam Heineken Music Hall

Friday 3/10/14 - Belgium Brussels FN Club

Saturday 4/10/14 - Germany Berlin Columbiahalle

Sunday 5/10/14 - Germany Dusseldorf Mitsubishi Electric Halle

The band announced these dates v...

Glastonbury is only 10 days away and we cannot wait here at RIFFED. After much deliberation, we've somehow managed to collate a list of the top 10 artists to see at this years festival. 

• Royal Blood - Brighton rockers Royal Blood have made a huge jump since our editor saw them on their first ever tour. Within 10 months they've gone from free gigs with 20 or so people rolling up, to supporting the Arctic Monkeys at Finsbury Park and playing at Glastonbury this year...

England this week begin their World Cup campaign against Italy on Saturday, but when former Smiths frontman Morrissey came to visit, they were faced with their first challenge, before a ball had even been kicked. 

This challenge being figuring out who he actually was. Shocking we know. Only Leighton Baines and Gary Neville revealed they knew who Morrissey was. Baines though is not a surprise, a good mate of Miles Kane and due to this, the left back is undoubtedly England's greatest...