Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked - Single Review

We here at Unreality Music don't need much of an excuse to cast off our clothes. So, imagine our delight when the virtually unknown Ida Maria started getting airplay with this absolutely epic tune.

What with Katy Perry trying the bi-curious angles this summer, and …

The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed - new album cover and track listing

Well, here it is people, the album artwork for the new The Streets album, Everything Is Borrowed. It's due to be in an online store near you on 15th September.

The lead single from Everything Is Borrowed is The Escapist, which is currently available as a free download …

The Saturdays - If This Is Love - Single Review

So...Have you heard all the buzz lately about The Saturdays? You can't escape it. And they've released their first single, If This Is Love, and it's already gone Top 10.

And since they've toured with that veteran pop act, Girls Aloud (veteran in pop terms anyway), you …

The Verve - Love Is Noise - Single Review

The Verve are due to release Love Is Noise as the first single from their new album, Forth on 11 August 2008.

So, after 9 years apart, what should we expect from this band who once ruled the world with their Urban Hymns album?

Well, Love Is Noise turns those …

Kid Rock - All Summer Long - Single Review

Surely this should be more controversial? Kid Rock ripping off Lynyrd Skynyrd and - worse still - singing completely different lyrics over that classic riff?

Maybe you're a more progressive soul and believe that All Summer Long represents an opportunity to recycle a …

Linkblog for Jul 26 to Aug 02

Here's a bunch of cool music-related blog posts I've come across recently.

35 Beautiful Music Album Covers

Album cover art is often considered to be one of the extinct fields in modern graphics design. Smashing Magazine take a look at some amazing cover art in music - …

New Kaiser Chiefs album titled Off With Their Heads

One of our favourite British bands, Kaiser Chiefs, have revealed the title of their latest album will be Off With Their Heads. This is the third studio album to be released by the band. It has been produced by Mark Ronson and Eliot James and is due to be released on …

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl - Single Review

If Katy Perry got criticism for Ur So Gay, she's redressing the balance on I Kissed A Girl, America's massive #1 hit single this summer. It's held the Billboard top spot for around six weeks.

You've got to love America's fascination for a song about a wee bisexual …

New Queen album, The Cosmos Rocks, released in October. Bovvered?

Just when you thought they'd cashed in on the Queen name enough, Brian May and Roger Taylor (along with not-quite-Freddy frontman Paul Rodgers) are squeezing a few quid more out of fans desperate to hear a bit more Queen.

The new album - the first since their Made In …

Linkblog for Jul 19 to Jul 26

Linkblog for Jul 19 to Jul 26

Recommended: Missy Higgins

This young woman is big news in Australia. Her name? Missy Higgins.

Unlike the other famous Missy, this one isn't known for her dirty rapping style, or anything like that.

This Antipodean is gaining a reputation for herself as an amazing singer/songwriter, and has …

Metallica announce Death Magnetic track listing

After being unintentionally outed by retailer Music Dispatch, Metallica have officially announced the track listing for Death Magnetic, due out in September.

But if an over-enthusiastic retailer is what it takes to get the low-down on the highly anticipated Death …

Dr. Dre's new album Detox to be released this autumn.

The excitement of big name album releases this year continues, with Dr. Dre's latest project, Detox being considered for release in "November or December".

Dre hasn't released a full solo album since 1999's 2001 (confused?), but considering it took him 7 years between …

10 Of The Best: Alice Cooper Songs

Alice Cooper. What a legend. With his trademark theatrical make-up and a gallows or guillotine always on hand to dispatch his fiendish stage persona straight to hell, Alice has left an indelible impression on the history of rock.

To celebrate the release of Alice's

New Ben Folds album, Way To Normal, released in September

Ben Folds is due to release his third solo album, Way To Normal on 30th September 2008.

Although some of the album was written during the final stages of his divorce last year, Folds says that this album is not about that. Even though the album was originally going to …

Why modern Indie music sucks

We've been saying it for a while now - the Indie music scene is a joke and bogged down in all-too-similar bands flogging the same dull by-the-numbers music.

How fitting that The Independent newspaper should be laying the smackdown on Indie music:

John Niven was an indie …

Join The Unreality Music Forum

Dear Reader (yeah, you)

We've never hid the fact that Unreality TV has a forum, but if you're a music fan, you'll definitely enjoy our music board.

The cool thing about the music forum is that you can start your own topics - as opposed to reading what we have to say …

The Zutons get booed at T4 On The Beach

Oh dear. It seems that The Zutons had an ice cold reception from fans at their recent T4 On The Beach gig.

We've always had a soft spot for The Zutons here at Unreality Music, and were looking forward to the release of their third album. However, with the release of …

Fisticuffs: Kele Okereke fights with John Lydon's entourage

If Bloc Party's Kele Okereke was a fan of John Lydon's work before, he won't be after the altercation with Lydon and his roadies at the weekend.

The two men's bands were on the bill for Spain's Summercase festival on Saturday. The story goes that Okereke approached …