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

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 […]
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 […]

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

VIDEO: TOM WAITS – ‘HELL BROKE LUCE’

“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 […]
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 […]

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

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

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 […]
Vacationer have shared the worldwide release of their visually stunning video for single, ‘Trip.’ The video was shot on Oahu’s North Shore by surf cult cinematographer Dave Homcy. Vacationer teamed up with Lomography, the international community dedicated to analogue photography, for the filming, the first partnership of this kind. The video was shot on Lomography’s […]

NEWS: VACATIONER – WATCH THE LOMOGRAPHY-SHOT VIDEO FOR ‘TRIP’

NEWS: PERFUME GENIUS – LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘TAKE ME HOME’ + TOUR DATES

2012 has seen Perfume Genius, aka Seattle native Mike Hadreas, go steadily from strength to strength. His second album ‘Put Your Back N2 It’ saw him earn his biggest raves to date on both sides of the pond, with resulting tours across the UK and Europe selling out and effortlessly capturing audience’s hearts. Add in […]
Norwegian songwriter, Ane Brun has released her new video for ‘Words’ this week, the prologue from a short film based to music from Ane Brun‘s album ‘It All Starts With One’. The film that houses no fewer than four orchestrated songs will be premiered in 2012. The Director for the whole project, Ane’s long-standing video […]

NEWS: ANE BRUN – WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘WORDS’

NEWS: SISSY & THE BLISTERS – HEAR TWO TRACKS FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM

Sissy & The Blisters have unleashed an energetic live performance of ‘Do It Alone’, filmed as part of a Youth Hymns Session. The track, alongside their forthcoming single ‘Killing Time’, is taken from Sissy & The Blister’s debut album, set for release early 2013. Sissy & The Blisters had a sensational year in 2011. The lead […]
Liars – Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross – have announced details of their brand new single, ‘Brats’ which is set for release on 12″ and download on 15th October, via Mute. One of the stand-out tracks from recent live shows, ‘Brats’ is the latest track to be taken from Liars’ current album ‘WIXIW’ […]

NEWS: LIARS – WATCH THE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘BRATS’ + TOUR DATES