NEWS: STUBBORN HEART – DEBUT ALBUM / VIDEO / TOUR DATES

Stubborn Heart – aka Luca Santucci & Ben Fitzgerald – set ears buzzing last year with a then unidentified white label 12” and followed it up with their EP ‘Need Someone’ on Kaya Kaya records. Now signed to One Little Indian, their full length eponymous debut, Stubborn Heart (released on November 5th) revealed a stunning […]
Esben and the Witch return with their new album Wash the Sins Not Only the Face, out January 21st on Matador Records.  The Brighton trio follow up their acclaimed 2011 debut album Violet Cries by transcending ‘second album’ preconceptions, crafting a record that’s bold, confident, expansive and not ‘difficult’ in the slightest.  Daniel Copeman of […]

NEWS: ESBEN & THE WITCH – NEW ALBUM / FREE TRACK / LIVE DATES

NEWS: COLD PUMAS – DEBUT ALBUM DETAILS + VIDEO

With the release of their debut album, ‘Persistent Malaise’ today, Cold Pumas share the first visual accompaniment to their longplayer; the fruity and fanciful feast that is ‘Sherry Island’. Shot and edited by Phil Whitby and directed by Cold Pumas’ own Patrick Fisher, the setting is one of glorious hues and faded splendour, with a […]
After debuting with Tic Toc Tic in 2009, The Zolas scaled the precipice of cult status across their native Canada, thanks to a loyal fanbase carried over from Zach Gray (vocals, guitar) and Tom Dobrzanski’s (piano) earlier years as acclaimed indie rock quartet, Lotus Child. On their sophomore release, Ancient Mars, The Zolas are set to continue […]

NEWS: THE ZOLAS – NEW ALBUM ‘ANCIENT MARS’ + HEAR ‘KNOT IN MY HEART’

NEWS: EVERYTHING EVERYTHING – 2013 TOUR DATES + PRESALE LINK

Everything Everything are pleased to announce details of their full 2013 UK tour to celebrate the release of their new album Arc on January 14. The band have just celebrated their first entry into the UK top 40 with lead single Cough Cough and enjoyed a run of fully sold out dates airing new material […]
It has been a manic couple of weeks for King Krule, aka 18-year-old south east London-based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshal. Having just released a stunning double A-side single ‘Rock Bottom’/’Octopus‘ via Rinse, he completed an incredible trio of sold-out headline shows in Paris, Manchester and London in support of the release, which proved very much the talk of […]

LISTEN: KING KRULE – ‘OCTOPUS’ (RATKING REMIX)

NEWS: TWEAK BIRD – NEW VIDEO ‘THE WEIGHT’ + FREE DOWNLOAD

The mighty Tweak Bird are back with a brand new video ahead of their mini-album release. Filmed at the American Legion Hall in Highland Park, CA, this smoking new video for ‘The Weight’ captures the intensity of the band’s live performance balanced with imagery of exploring the need for release. ‘The Weight’ is one of […]
Whilst doing a bit of travelling over summer, I came into contact with a lot of Australians. Disappointingly, they weren’t too keen on entertaining my hilarious one-sided dialogues about koala bears, kangaroos and all Australians being the descendants of prisoners. However, most of them did seem more than happy to talk to me about was […]

NEWS: FISHING – HEAR THE NEW TRACK ‘CHOY LIN’

NEWS: ERRORS – ‘RELICS’ REMIXED BY EGYPTIAN HIP HOP

The lead track from the mini-album, ‘Relics’ has been given the Egyptian Hip Hop treatment which, as RCRDLBL explain, involved the track being “melted into a bloopy goop punctuated by springs, wobbles and cumulous FX”. As well as being released on all the normal formats, the Scots are reviving the VHS. Each track on the […]
Three albums into their career, Manchester’s Dutch Uncles, a group who pitched their tents firmly in pop’s leftfield with their eponymous first album before releasing Memphis Industries debut Cadenza in 2011, have made another huge step forward with their forthcoming album ‘Out Of Touch In The Wild’. The album is due for release on 7th […]

NEWS: DUTCH UNCLES – UK TOUR DATES + NEW ‘FESTER’ REMIX/FREE DOWNLOAD