NEWS: LIVE FROM JODRELL BANK ANNOUNCES MORE ACTS

Graham Coxon has been confirmed as the main support for Paul Weller’s show at the Jodrell Bank observatory.  Live From Jodrell Bank sees artists performing large-scale outdoor concerts in the shadow of the iconic Lovell telescope, one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world and the Blur lead guitarist and solo artist is a welcome addition […]
With her second album, CYRK, hitting the shelves on 30 April, Cate Le Bon is set to release a Record Store Day exclusive split single with Gruff Rhys. Cate Le Bon and the Super Furry Animals singer have a long history: Le Bon was a major player in Rhys’s Neon Neon project. She toured extensively […]

NEWS: GRUFF RHYS & CATE LE BON ANNOUNCE SPLIT 7” FOR RECORD STORE DAY – HEAR BOTH TRACKS IN FULL NOW

NEWS: STALKING HORSE ANNOUNCE SPECTERS PRE-ORDER

Specters is the debut album from Stalking Horse – produced by James Kenosha (Pulled Apart By Horses, Dry The River, Grammatics, Dinosaur Pile Up), with all tracks written and performed by Wu (ex-This Et Al). Specters is now available to pre-order on 12″ vinyl from http://www.stalkinghorse.co.uk, released 14th May 2012 via Role Model Corporate. All pre-orders (which include […]
Salford’s finest festival of new music, Sounds From the Other City, returns for the 8th time on Bank Holiday Sunday 6th May with its freshest line up yet. For 2012, established Manchester promoters like Faktion (who’ve put on Demdike Stare, Blackest Ever Black label showcase), Now Wave (Sleigh Bells, the XX, Money, Alt-J) and Hey! […]

NEWS: SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY – FULL 2012 LINE UP

NEWS: DOT TO DOT ANNOUNCE NEW WAVE OF ACTS

Already well-established as the festival that brings you future stadium-fillers before any other event, Dot To Dot is set to unveil the second wave of acts on this year’s bill.  The UK’s only touring festival, Dot To Dot will visit a multitude of venues in Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester this coming Jubilee bank holiday weekend headlined by The Drums and Pulled Apart […]
CITIZENS! have announced details of the release of their debut album. Here We Are will be released through Kitsuné onMonday May 28th 2012. The 11-track album was recorded in Scotland in the autumn of 2011 and produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand. The tracklisting of the album is as follows: 1.  True Romance 2.  Reptile 3.  Caroline 4.  Love You […]

NEWS: CITIZENS! ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM

NEWS: EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS – NEW ALBUM ‘HERE’ + MAKING OF VIDEO

Edward Shape & the Magnetic Zeros will release their second studio album ‘HERE’ on 28th May via Rough Trade Records. The album, which is the follow-up to the LA group’s 2009 debut ‘Up From Below’, was self-produced and recorded in Bogalusa, LA and in their studio in Ojai, CA. Of the new album, frontman Alex Ebert says: “The making of this album has […]
Brooklyn’s We Are Augustines released their ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships’ album via their own label, Oxcart Records this month and have lined up a short run of dates in the UK for May. The band lit up the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas last week with various gigs and secret acoustic shows and are currently taking their […]

NEWS: WE ARE AUGUSTINES – MAY TOUR DATES + ABBEY ROAD VIDEO

VIDEO: GRINDERMAN & U.N.K.L.E – ‘HYPER WORM TAMER’

Grinderman are set to release ‘Grinderman 2 RMX’ on March 26th through Mute Records. One of the tracks featured on this remix album is a collaboration between Grinderman and U.N.K.L.E. who have teamed up to create ‘Hyper Worm Tamer’ and the video to accompany this track is now available on YouTube. The video follows the same theme as the video […]
Following their triumphant European tour last October and the success of their sold-out single ‘A Stutter and a Start’, Oxford’s SPRING OFFENSIVE now return to the limelight with their brand new anthem of dissatisfaction, ‘Worry Fill My Heart’. Vocalist Lucas Whitworth explains, “It’s a reaction to that feeling of impotence when confronted with a difficult […]

NEWS: SPRING OFFENSIVE – SELF RELEASED SINGLE + LIVE DATES