THEY clog up the charts for a few weeks, you hear them playing on the radio in every shop you go in to, they peak and then ... nada. You never hear from them again until they

X FACTOR winner Leon Jackson will be on home turf to help promote his new single.

Album number nine from Animal Collective is coming early 2009.

Reuters - Atlanta rapper T.I. broke his own recently set record for the largest leap to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on Thursday, as "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna leaped 79 places.

Raphael Saadiq, the lead vocalist in the late-1980s R&B band Tony! Toni! Tone!, has emerged as solo artist with his new album The Way I See It. Rock critic Ken Tucker has a review.

Future of the Left have added more dates see the full list now.

Electric passion becomes lasting love, and ends with desperate tragedy, in Puccini's La Boheme — maybe the greatest "date opera" in history — in a racy new production from the Washington National Opera.

10 million sellers Disturbed deliver the goods to a sold out and partisan Manchester crowd.

A welcome return from a band who have returned to form hurrah for The Tindersticks.

Florida rockers Shinedown deliver a stunning performance probably one of the best supports I've seen ever!