NEWS: TWO WOUNDED BIRDS – HEAR NEW SINGLE ‘TO BE YOUNG’ + HEADLINE UK TOUR ANNOUNCED

With the release of their long-awaited debut album under their belts, Margate quartet Two Wounded Birds have announced details of their first headline UK tour in October and that their next single ‘To Be Young’ will be released on August 5th. The band have also created a promotional video that you can watch below. A […]
How does time work anyway? Did you know that 2008 is as much yesterday as yesterday is? 2008, that was when it began – a sweat young thing boiling up out of the mythical swamps of ooze and grooves. Ty Segall was just getting started, his need to rock was ordering itself into existence. Now […]

NEWS: TY SEGALL – NEW ALBUM ‘TWINS’ + UK LIVE DATES

NEWS: CAMERA – FREE DOWNLOAD OF ‘AUSLAND’

Dubbed “Krautrock Guerilla”, the Berlin-based trio Camera has played with Krautrock legends Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius and performed at the German Film Prize and Echo Awards ceremonies. And in August 2012, as unlikely as it may once have seemed, their debut album will be released. A lot has been going on with the three […]
ERAAS is a tribal atmospheric quartet based in Brooklyn led by its two founding members Robert Toher and Austin Stawiarz. The band arose from the ashes of New England-based project Apse in 2011, forming with the desire to create more ritualistic and darker themes. Live, the band, generally as a 4-piece, elicit foreboding, cautionary themes, […]

NEWS: ERAAS – DOWNLOAD A TRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING DEBUT ALBUM

NEWS: RIMAR – STREAM A TRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING EP

On Monday 23rd July Brooklynite Rimar will release his new EP ‘Closer’ on Bella Union. Rimar came to our attention last year with the rather sublime EP Higher Ground, seven songs which showcased his talents to mould 70’s funk with the smoothness of modern R&B. These are themes he continues on Closer, taking the brash rhythm […]
21 year old Salford born singer Ren Harvieu, whose breathtaking  voice has had the critics reaching for the superlatives and whose critically acclaimed debut album “Through The Night” stormed into the UK chart this week at no. 5, releases her new single “Tonight” on July 16th through Kid Gloves/Island Records.  Ren has just announced her […]

VIDEO: REN HARVIEU – ‘TONIGHT’

NEWS: BROWN BROGUES – LIVE DATES + VIDEO ‘ANYONE BUT YOU’

2012 has been a great year for Brown Brogues. So far have toured the UK and America for the second time, toured France for the first time and released their 3rd single and video ‘Anyone But You’ on Flexi disc. They also returned to Sweden to headline the Friday night of Whole Lotta Midsommar. They […]
The Walkmen have a new visual accompaniments to share with you for ‘The Love You Love’ taken from their new album Heaven. This beautifully shot black & white video was directed by Sean Pecknold and sees Hamilton and his son looking rather creepy in a house with floating cats and fireworks, the whole thing has […]

NEWS: THE WALKMEN – TWO NEW VIDEOS + UK LIVE DATES

NEWS: PURITY RING – SEE THE VIDEO TO ‘FINESHRINE’

Purity Ring is excited to reveal their video for their song ‘Fineshrine’. Directed by Young Replicant (www.youngreplicant.com), the video is available for your viewing pleasure below. ‘Fineshrine’ is the lead single from the band’s forthcoming debut album Shrines (reviewed here), which will be released by 4AD on July 24th. Pitchfork recently awarded the song ‘Best […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Summer isn’t going to happen this year but with their debut LP “Manifest!”, released June 4th on Lucky Number, Brooklyn five piece Friends, have still delivered the soundtrack regardless. Oozing effortless cool and sexy insouciance, full to bursting with instantly infectious songs and singer Samantha Urbani’s subversive lyrics, it […]

NEWS: FRIENDS – HEAR THE ALUNA GEORGE REMIX OF ‘I’M HIS GIRL’