The Cranberries are readying new songs:

Singer Dolores Riordan, who was also the main cause for the band's break-up and circulated the solo disk No Baggage last August, admits that guitarist Noel Hogan never stopped sending her samples of music, but she is very guarded about their new efforts. This will be the Cranberries first appearance together in seven years. The first show will be November 12 in Baltimore.. It's a positive note that the band remains intact, with Riordan, Hogan and Mike, and Fergal Lawler behind the production.

The Pet Shop Boys in Athens:

The "princes" of dance-pop are touring around the world with an incredible multimedia show-overproduction, called Pandemonium Tour 2009. It kicked off in st1:country-region w:st="on"> Russia in June and on November 20 it will come to Athens, then on to Thessaloniki. The tour finishes up in London on December 21. For the Pet Shop Boys, this is the biggest audiovisual show they have ever made, and for this unique production The Metropolitan Expo in Athens opens its doors for the first time to the concert public. The group, with almost 30 years in the limelight, has had more than 50,000,000 in record sales, has re-defined pop, pioneered in dance, redefined and purified the 80s, had four Number 1 singles ( West End Girls, Always On My Mind, It's A Sin, Heart), 42 Top 30 and 22 Top10 hits. In March of this year it released its 10th album, Yes, which was honoured for Outstanding Achievement in the 2009 Brit Awards.  TThe group has been nominated four times for a Grammy award, and it has been in the limelight for the last 30 (almost) years.

Preliminaires:

The first thing you notice in this disk, is that Iggy Pop really has an incredible voice and that if he wanted to follow the easy way he could just sing meaningful, supposedly moody ballads. His oldest and fanatic fans will be puzzled with this sudden expression of a fragile nature of the artist and very probably will remember his old image when he stretched out his hands and dove into the crowd. But, of course, people change and mature. Obviously, Preliminaires doesn't constitute Pop's swan song, but it sure is a break in his whirl-wind career, a nice place to visit from time to time.

In This Light And On This Evening:

The Editors return with one more album. We had an occasion to see the group in last year's jekt festival. This Light And On This Evening, which got its name from singer Tom Smith's impressions of London, is much more electronic than the previous works of the band. Although the group is still at the top, it presents certain notable weaknesses with this album. With the exception of the cuts Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool and The Big Exit, the rest of the pieces do not present any particular originality. Naturally the expressive voice of Smith is enough to keep up your interest, but not enough to particularly appreciate the disk.