TOY’s much anticipated self-titled debut album, heralded by Mojo as ‘British Alt Rock’s finest debut of 2012, will be released by Heavenly Recordings on Monday 10th September. The album will be preceded by the release of a new single, Lose My Way on Monday 3rd September 2012. The 7” single, features the B-Side Bright White Shimmering […]
On September 3rd Tokyo sensation taffy continue to take the UK by storm, with the release of ‘Flower Chain’, on Club AC30. Plus, due to huge demand the band have announced a national headline tour. Following widespread print and online praise for the debut album ‘Caramel Sunset’, the amphetamine-esque, angular indie-disco-pogo of ‘Flower Chain’ looks set […]
Up until now Rough Trade’s Palma Violets have had minimum online presence and no songs recorded, instead preferring for people to come and experience their raucous live shows at their Lambeth art studio / squat Studio 180, and then later on a UK co-headline tour with Savages. As of today, the London four-piece’s debut single ‘Best Of Friends’ is available to buy from iTunes. […]
With their darkly poetic lyrics and Americana leanings, Grass House will release a new single, ‘The Boredom Rose’ b/w ‘Caught Green’, the first for brand new independent label Dancing Coins on the 10th September. Grass House will be the first band to be released on the up-and-coming London label. Dancing Coins was founded this year […]
The idiosyncratic and innovative sonic force that is Everything Everything are back with their follow up album to 2010’s critically acclaimed debut, ‘Man Alive’. ‘Arc’ will be released on January 14, 2013 on RCA Victor. Recorded at Angelic Studios and RAK, the band returned to ‘Man Alive’ producer David Kosten to work on the new record. The lead single ‘Cough Cough’ is the […]
The release of their new LP “Diver”, found New York electronic pop trio Lemonade drawing critical acclaim on both sides of the pond, with everyone from LA Times and Village Voice to the Guardian and NME falling for its bold, sensual style, a glorious melange of early 90’s R&B, UK 2-step Garage, Balearic house and […]
Fresh from playing Reading and Leeds festivals and also BBC 6 Music’s Summer In The City and Media City Salford, Django Django have made their Hail Bop EP available in full for your listening pleasure. Hail Bop EP available here – http://smarturl.it/HailBop Debut Album out now – http://smarturl.it/DjangoDjango www.djangodjango.co.uk www.because.tv P&C 2012 Because Music
With their debut album ‘Electric Hawaii’ due for release on Fire Records in August, New Zealand’s Opossom are pleased to announce a US and European tour this coming October/November. ‘Getaway Tonight’ is directed by Joel Kefali from Special Problems (Tame Impala, Flying Lotus) and is inspired by b-grade sci-fi, featuring frontman Kody Nielson as two cyborgs […]
The Babies share a new song, “Moonlight Mile,” from a 7″ that was released by Woodsist last week. This is also the first single from their upcoming album, ‘Our House On The Hill’, which will be released this autumn. The 7″ features an exclusive B-side and is limited to 1,000 copies. The Babies formed in Brooklyn in […]
If you check your Mayan calendar, you’ll see that 2012 marks the end of the world; a subject that has always been close to the dark heart of one Konstantin Gropper – the “bastard child of Radiohead and Bright Eyes” as Music Week once christened him – or Get Well Soon as he’s better known […]
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