NEWS: FESTIVAL NO.6 – LIVE BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC

Festival No.6 have announced that they are teaming up with BBC Radio 6 Music as part of their Autumn Live Music Programme to transmit exclusive performances from some of the legendary and cutting edge acts performing at this year’s event. To celebrate New Order headlining the first year of the UK’s newest festival and the […]
Bjork statement: ‘dear folks here comes a statement in defense of pussy riot : as a musician and a mother i would like to express i fiercely dont agree with them being put to jail because of their peaceful protest performance . they are currently standing trial and facing seven years in prison for this […]

VIDEO: BJORK – ‘DECLARE INDEPENDENCE’ DEDICATED TO PUSSY RIOT

NEWS: 2:54 – WATCH THE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘SUGAR’ + TOUR DATES

One of the UK’s exciting new bands, 2:54 -sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow- have unveiled the video for their new single ‘Sugar’, taken from their self-titled debut album released in May on Fiction. Ahead of their September tour with the XX and slew of high-profile summer festival dates including Reading, Leeds and Bestival they debut […]
Chew Lips will release the first single ‘Hurricane’ from their second album on 3rd September, released through the bands own label Family Records as part of a new deal with Sony Music. ‘Hurricane’ will follow free download track ‘Do You Chew?’ released last month. It is a bold and sassy track and a surefire future […]

NEWS: CHEW LIPS – LISTEN TO THE XXXY REMIX OF ‘HURRICANE’

NEWS: THE CAST OF CHEERS – DOWNLOAD THE CITIZENS! REMIX OF ‘HUMAN ELEVATOR’

Hot on the heels of the release of their much anticipated album “Family” on July 23rd, The Cast of Cheers are releasing their brand new single “Human Elevator” – perhaps their most addictive track to date. As drums pound and looped riffs unspool, lead singer Conor brings a thrilling air of combustible menace to proceedings […]
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the birth of Bella Union Records, and to celebrate they have teamed up with Rough Trade Shops to compile 145 minutes and 52 seconds minutes of music, old and new, that reflects fondly on the beginnings of the label and looks towards the prospects of the future. As […]

NEWS: BELLA UNION – 15TH ANNIVERSARY COMPILATION WITH ROUGH TRADE

NEWS: FIRST AID KIT – LISTEN TO ‘WOLF’ + UK TOUR DATES

First Aid Kit are fresh from a European tour with Jack White and to continue their inexorable rise in 2012, they are releasing album highlight ‘Wolf’ on 17th September (Wichita). They will then head back to the UK for their biggest headline dates thus far, calling at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 20th November. Added to […]
“As most of you guessed, it’s a tour…a tour de force! Matt Mahurin has created an apocalyptic war dream to accompany the song ‘Hell Broke Luce’. Kathleen and I envisioned it as an enlightened drill sergeant yelling the hard truths of war to a brand new batch of recruits. The video grew from the gnawing […]

VIDEO: TOM WAITS – ‘HELL BROKE LUCE’

NEWS: MOON DUO – DOWNLOAD ‘SLEEPWALKER’ FROM THE FORTHCOMING SECOND ALBUM

After their recent Rough Trade in store show, which saw the queue to get in stretch right around the block, Moon Duo have confirmed the release of their second full-length LP ‘Circles’ for Oct 1st on Souterrain Transmissions. ‘Circles’ is the product of a long winter’s isolation in the Rocky Mountains, though the road to […]
UK house golden girl Maya Jane Coles dusts off her Nocturnal Sunshine alias for a remix of Karin Park’s new single Thousand Loaded Guns, released 10 September on State Of Eye Recordings. Karin Park shook up the underground in 2011 with the release of her critically acclaimed EP ‘Tiger Dreams’. Reigniting Sweden’s electronic scene with […]

NEWS: KARIN PARK – LISTEN TO THE MAYA JANE COLES REMIX OF ‘THOUSAND LOADED GUNS’