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Phil Wickham, "Heaven And Earth" Release Date: November 17, 2009 In some ways, the seed that eventually grew into Phil Wickham's third studio album, Heaven and Earth, was planted while reading Donald Miller's Searching For God Knows What, which happens to be one of my all-time favorite books.

Keane have revealed they had almost given up hope of cracking the charts before recording one of the biggest albums of the decade.

As we learned with DJ Shadow's brilliant remix of "We Might As Well Be Strangers" from Keane's debut album, they sound rather good with electronic production.

ON May 10, 2004 Island Records released what was to become the biggest selling album of the year Keane's Hopes & Fears , thereby giving birth to one of the brightest new acts of recent times.

Keane are releasing an expanded version of their debut album. The 'deluxe edition' of 'Hopes And Fears' comes out on November 30 and, along with the original tracks, features a bonus disc of extra material.

Lily Allen take on file sharing, gets caught sharing someone else's words on 50 Cent on new blog Lily Allen @ Roseland Ballroom "I havent written on here for a while but I've taken the time to write this as I think music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music, but some really rich and successful artists like Nick Mason from Pink Floyd ...

Keane drummer Richard Hughes is to accompany Amnesty International to visit a prisoner held on death row in the US state of Georgia this Friday .

Winehouse and Ronson hook up, Bez goes on a bender, Taylor Swift forgives Kanye a ' your music gossip stop Welcome to the Daily Gossip : your daily stop-off to find out who in the world of music has been up to what.

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KEANE frontman TOM CHAPLIN has forged an unlikely friendship with Dutch DJ TIESTO.

Keane is remaning relevent with their latest album and a new tour, now going through Canada.

In music, comparitives are a lazy writera s way of conveying the sound of a band using minimal effort.

In the great pantheon of British wuss pop, Keane occupies a place somewhere above Travis but well below the lofty heights scaled by Coldplay.

Caption: Tom Chaplin of Keane performing at the O2 Arena London, England .... KEANE'S FLYING FEARS The members of British band KEANE have such a fear of flying, they took a train across Russia on their recent tour of the country.

Keane aren't keen on repetition. While most bands are happy to find a stylistic niche and settle into it, these British pop-rockers have consciously laboured to broaden and enrich their sound with each successive release.

Against all odds, the autumn season starts with a bang as Glavclub, the 2,000-capacity venue launched last November, will be hosting three concerts by international 'name' artists in the space of a week.

When Coldplay was interviewed recently on 60 Minutes, lead singer Chris Martin was asked what the secret behind their popularity is.

What a difference the sunshine makes. After last year's mud hell at Weston Park's V Festival, I wasn't looking forward to another bout of trench-foot. Even though some weather reports suggested it would only rain on Sunday, I wasn't taking any of it for granted.

THE LOWLANDS music festival in Holland, at a beautiful lakeside location an hour outside Amsterdam, bills itself as "a progressive alternative festival", featuring "many bars, global restaurants and hippie hangouts" and is summed up, in short, as "Glasto meets Goa!" In other words, you would certainly surmise: "Kaleidoscopic drug-fest a-go-go and ...

LIAM GALLAGHER yesterday apologised to thousands of fans left disappointed after Oasis cancelled their V Festival gig.