BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Newsbeat jets off with Snow Patrol as they promote fifth album more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Newsbeat jets off with Snow Patrol as they promote fifth album more info

Guardian Music — Alas for Simon Cowell, it takes more than short skirts and pretty faces to make a great classical record. Escala, Cowell's favourite all-girl string quartet, have postponed the release of their debut album after deciding it's, well ... not good enoug... more info

NME — Snow Patrol release their new album 'A Hundred Million Suns' today (October 27). more info

NME — Snow Patrol release their new album 'A Hundred Million Suns' today (October 27). more info

Pop Matters — Whether or not this album contains a hit as massive as "Chasing Cars", it's a confident, balanced work of mass art with only extremely minor flaws. more info

Guardian Music — He made his name as the rasping-voiced lead singer of the Undertones. Now, 30 years after the release of 'Teenage Kicks', Feargal Sharkey is to spearhead a music revolution in British schools.Tomorrow Sharkey will be unveiled as the chief executive o... more info

Guardian Music — It's not often you can call an album unambitious when it closes with a 16-minute, three-part epic. But this is Snow Patrol, purveyors of Eyes Open, a band whose vaguely consoling Celtic rock is so unremarkable as to muffle such novelties. It is just ... more info

Chorus.fm — *Snow Patrol* (http://www.myspace.com/snowpatrol)'s new album, A Hundred Million Suns, is streaming on their myspace (http://www.myspace.com/snowpatrol). more info

Guardian Music — Snow Patrol have finally done what their harshest critics have been urging them to do for years and set fire to their guitars - however, this was for creative, not career-ending reasons. Similar experiments (including recording wine glasses filled wi... more info