Oklahoma City’s psychedelic alternative rockers The Flaming Lips and grime rapper Dizzee Rascal are today confirmed as the star headliners for The Parklife Weekender at Platt Fields park on 9th and 10th June 2012. Crowning the festival’s main stage on Saturday and Sunday respectively, these two artists lead the first line-up announcement for Parklife’s third annual party. The finest […]
Following the release of brooding album opener ‘No Future/No Past’ at the end of last year, Cloud Nothings are gearing up for the release of their heavier, Steve Albini-produced album ‘Attack on Memory’ on February 6th. Not content with teasing fans with just the one track, Dylan Baldi & co. are about to fully show […]
Following the launch of ‘Audio, Video, Disco.’ their epic follow up to 2007’s Grammy nominated ‘‚Ć’, Justice announce their new single ‘On ‘n’ On’, released on the 27th Feb on Ed Banger / Because Music. ‘On ‘N On’ is one of the true standout moments from ‘AVD’. Strident synth, harpsichord and melotron melodies are paired with […]
Tennis’ widely praised debut Cape Dory, which The Wall Street Journal called “a winsome set of breezy pop songs,” was released early last year. For their forthcoming album guitarist Patrick Riley, vocalist Aliana Moore and drummer James Barone headed to Nashville to work with The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney. The first single from these sessions, ‘Origins’, is out now as […]
Art school dropout, pensive introvert, grunge obsessive, fan of dressing up in brightly coloured wigs: as FOE, 21-year-old, Hannah Clark is all of these things and more. FOE’s debut album, a fun house of funeral glamour, ‘Bad Dream Hotline’, was released 16th January on Vertigo records. Turned on to Captain Beefheart, Nirvana and PJ Harvey by her music-loving dad […]
Porcelain Raft has released a new video for next single ‘Unless You Speak From Your Heart’, which is to be released on the 20th February in the UK through Secretly Canadian. The video was filmed in New York and directed by Porcelain Raft aka Mauro Remiddi himself. He says of video “Once I went to see an exhibition where inside a […]
Their free album ‘Chariot’, which they recorded in 3 days, has racked up over 150,000 downloads on BandCamp, they got nominated at the Choice Music Awards and their debut single ‘Family’, released on February 20th on School Boy Error/Cooperative Music, has been championed by Zane Lowe (who played it twice in a row on his Radio […]
With the release of her new album, Visions, scheduled for March 12th on Arbutus / 4AD (full album details here), Grimes is heading over to Europe this May for almost a month of touring. Starting at the Simple Things Festival in Bristol on the 6th, she then plays UK headline shows at the Berkeley Suite in Glasgow (7th), Brudenell Social Club in Leeds (8th), XOYO in […]
Brighton-based duo Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell will return this year with their 3rd album ‘In Time To Voices’ out on March 26th and a new single ‘Cold’, released on March 19th via V2/Co-Operative Music. The band will also be hitting the road throughout the UK for an April and May tour. Since the release of their debut almost […]
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny have unveiled a live session recording of their brand new single ‘Sweet Tooth Bird’. Recorded at Lightship95 – a recording studio/boat moored on the Thames – you can now watch a video of the full band session below. With her dazzling debut album, ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose’ picking up […]












