After announcing nigh on two weeks ago that that their new album has been delayed, Major Lazer have now confirmed that forthcoming ‘Free The Universe’ will now be released on April 15. However, in a way of keeping the peace with fans until the LP’s release, the production set have released the second of three new mixtapes for your audio pleasure.

The first ‘Lazer Strikes Back’ was released when the ‘Free The Universe’ delay was announced; the second, ‘Lazer Strikes Back vol 2’, has been released now that the album has been confirmed.

Who knows when the third will come, but for the meantime, check the first two volumes below:

Lazer Strikes Back vol 1 – link
Lazer Strikes Back vol 2 – link

Oh, and finally, just in case you missed it, the boys also released album-track ‘Watch Out For This’ feat. Busy Signal, The Flexican & FS Green onto SoundCloud – listen below:

23-year-old indie/folk musician Laura Marling has confirmed the release of her fourth studio album by announcing new single “Where Can I Go?”

The melancholic track is beautiful and possesses the similar breathtaking enchantments that you often see in Adele’s live performances. Captivating is the right word to use here!

The fantastic track is taken from forthcoming album ‘Once I Was An Eagle’, schedule for UK release on 27th May – take a listen below and let us know what you think:

US rock band The Smashing Pumpkins have confirmed plans to launch a world tour. The tour will be covering select venues in the US, Japan, Europe and the UK and will run from March 2013 for a further 5 months.

Frontman Billy Corgan will join the rest of the current lineup of the Pumpkins on tour, which promises to play out old iconic material as well as tracks from 2012’s acclaimed album ‘Oceania’.

The news follows Corgan’s earlier news today that the band are currently working on new material, set for release in 2014.

The tour dates are as

23rd March – Veracruz, Mexico – Cumbre Tajin Festival
29th April – Melbourne, FL – King Center for the Performing Arts
5th May – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheater
3rd May – Tampa, FL – Funshine Music Festival
5th May – Memphis, TN – Beale Street Music Festival
7th May – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater *
8th May – Charlotte, NC – Time Warner Amphitheater *
!0th May – Atlanta, GA – Chastain Amphitheater
11th May – Gulfport, MS – Gulfport Music Festival
14th May – Dallas, TX – Palladium
18th May – Columbus, OH – Rock on the Range
20th June – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
21st-23rd June – Tuttlingen, Germany – Southside Festival
21st-23rd June – Scheessel, Germany – Hurricane Festival
24th June – Paris, France – Le Zenith de Paris
25th June – Nantes, France – Le Zenith Nantes Metropole
27th June – Barcelona, Spain – Razzmatazz
28th June – Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain – Azkena Music Festival
1st July – Manchester, England – Academy
2nd July – Glasgow, Scotland – Academy
4th July – Lille, France – Le Zenith de Lille Grand Palais
5th July – Belfort, France – Eurockeennes Festival
6th July – Herouville-St.-Clair, France – Beauregard Festival
9th July – Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – Rockhal
10th July – Vienna, Austria – Open Air Arena
12th July – Trencin, Slovakia – Pohoda Festival
14th July – Rome, Italy – Rock in Roma Festival
16th July – Vienne, France – Theatre Antique
17th July – Carcasonne, France – Festival de Carcassone
18th July – Porto, Portugal – Mares Vivas Festival
20th July – Bern, Switzerland – Gurtenfestival
21st July – Dour, Belgium – Dour Music Festival
22nd July – London, England – Wembley Arena
10th August – Osaka, Japan – Summer Sonic
11th August – Tokyo, Japan – Summer Sonic

Are you a new artist on the block? Perhaps you’re working on some new music and want to get some opinions. Whatever it is you’re working on, Stagedoor FM wants to help you get your music as much reach as possible, and that’s why we’ve opened up our Stagedoor FM Dropbox on Soundcloud.

It’s simple – click the button below and upload your track; it’s THAT easy.

If your sound is something that is fresh, unique, or even something we believe will appeal to our visitors, then we may even write about it. Remember, Stagedoor FM has global reach of thousands of unique visitors – you never know who’s going to be listening.

Who knows – you could be a future ‘Stagedoor FM One To Watch’ so get uploading!

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Pop/r&b diva has premiered the video for new single ‘Almost Home’.

The video of the track, taken from the soundtrack to Disney’s new feature film ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’, is a simple black-and-white affair, interspersed with snippets from the new movie (which is out in UK cinemas now).

During an interview with VH1’s ‘Big Morning Buzz Live’, Mariah spoke of the inspiration her two-year-old twins gave to the writing of the track, saying:

“I’ve always just loved Disney, and now especially having two little babies—like all we do is watch animated movies, even though they’re so little, they still love them, especially Roc, my little boy.”

In-between filming the latest series of American Idol, Mariah has also been hard at work in the studio putting the finishing touches of her new album. Working with some big-name producers (notably The-Dream, Jermaine Dupri, Stargate and Rodney Jerkins), the album is scheduled for a May 2013 release.

Watch the video for ‘Almost Home’ below:

Tomorrow will mark the 16th anniversary of the devastating shooting of Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls aka Notorious BIG.

To ‘mark’ this occasion, legendary hip-hop radio presenter Tim Westwood has released unseen rare footage of Biggie Smalls performing with Puff Daddy at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 1995.

We’ve all watched Biggie videos since his passing, but hearing something unreleased is bordering on special. Hearing him spitting bars makes you realise what a loss his death was to the hip-hop world – he makes it sound so flawless.

The performance, from the launch party of Westwood joining Radio 1, unites Big Poppa with his close friend Puff Daddy, and the pair run through some of the most memorable songs from ‘Ready to Die’. These two really did know how to do a live performance.

Check it out for yourself below. #RIPBiggie

Organisers of this year’s Wireless Festival have taken to their social media channels to announce a third day to this summer’s event.

Hint: It involves more line-up announcements & a third day…#BRINGONSUMMER #WIRELESS
— Wireless Festival (@WirelessFest) March 8, 2013

Whilst a line-up is yet to be unveiled (expected next week), the third day is expected to add to the already-impressive A-list artists that are confirmed for the Friday and Saturday. Exciting times ahead, however I’m sure those who purchased ‘weekend’ tickets may start to kick themselves!

More to follow…

Organisers of 2013’s Glastonbury Festival have announced the 8 finalists to their Emerging Talent Competition.

The competition, which was announced in January, will give new, unsigned artists from the UK and Ireland the chance to compete for a main stage slot at this year’s Glastonbury. Acts from any musical genre were applicable to enter, and follow in the footsteps of previous ETC entrants, who include Stornoway, Scouting For Girls, We Have Band, the Golden Silvers, the Subways and the winners of the last contest, in 2011, Treetop Flyers.

The 8 finalists for 2013 have been announced as A Band Called Wanda, Black Balloons, Bridie Jackson & Arbour, The Dancers, Isaiah Dreads, Lillian Todd Jones, Port Isla and Rhys Lloyd Morgan.

Listen below for their tracks:

After Zane Lowe gave it it’s offiicial premiere yesterday, as well as declaring it his ‘Hottest Track In The World’, we proudly present to you the lyric video for Benga & Kano’s fantastic new track ‘Forefathers’.

Check it out below: