The Naked And Famous have announced a UK tour for November. The New Zealanders picked up the Philip Hall Radar Award at the Shockwaves NME Awards in February as well as a place on the BBC Sound of 2011 longlist. Their album Passive Me Aggressive You (Fiction) has received positive reviews as have their recent shows […]
Big Deal have announced additional dates for their UK tour. The band have taken to the road for a headline tour of the UK that includes a London date with support from Weird Dreams and Netherlands at Tamesis Dock on 7 September. The tour coincides with the release of their debut album Lights Out, and […]
Dutch Uncles’ 2011 has been good, with their debut album for Memphis Industries ‘Cadenza’ garnering plaudits from critics and fans alike, and the band popping many a festival cherry. After a Europe-wide tour with Wild Beasts, Dutch Uncles will be heading off to begin work on their second album for Memphis. September 26th will see […]
Set in late 1970’s Britain, ‘The Other Shoe’ is one of the record’s poppier moments and it’s accompanying video introduces us to the key narrative for the entire opera, capturing the moment when main character David meets Veronica for the first time and shows their subsequent plot to blow up the factory where David works […]
Symphonic pop band The Leisure Society have announced details of a new single, along with details of a reissue of current album ‘Into The Murky Water’ plus a support tour with Laura Marling. ‘Dust On The Dancefloor’ will be released through Full Time Hobby on Monday 24th October 2011. The single is taken from their […]
S.C.U.M. are set to release a new single, ‘Whitechapel’ on Mute on 26 September 2011. ‘Whitechapel’, available on 12” and download, is the second single from S.C.U.M’s eagerly awaited debut album Again Into Eyes which is released on 12 September. The 12” comes backed with exclusive track ‘Blindness’ and both the vinyl and download feature […]
Art pop architects Breton are releasing a stunning new video to accompany their new song ‘The Commission’. It was directed by BretonLABS and Stuart Sinclair, a motion graphics artist who makes computer generated clips of space and satellites. The actor is Patrick Lyons, a beat poet from Boston – and legend on the south London squat party scene. The pair met […]
Charlotte Gainsbourg will release her new album ‘Stage Whisper’ through Because Music on 7th November. A double album of live and unreleased studio tracks, it will be the follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘IRM’ album, which came out in January 2010. ‘Stage Whisper’s studio material features collaborations with Beck, Conor O’Brien of Villagers, Noah […]
Following the recent success of second album ‘w h o k i l l’, released earlier this year, tUnE-yArDs return with both a new single and a handful of UK shows next month. This 12” takes the hip-hop inspired elements of ‘Gangsta’ even further with remixes from Adrock (Beastie Boys) and Cut Chemist (Jurassic 5, […]
British electronic-infused post-rock group 65Daysofstatic announce the North American release of their latest album We Were Exploding Anyway in a special deluxe edition that also features the recent Heavy Sky EP. The expanded set will only be released in North America and hits stores on 2xCD, LP and Digital Download on October 25th, 2011 via […]
GIG GUIDE
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ALBUM REVIEW - MCKINLEY DIXON: MAGIC, ALIVE!
ALBUM REVIEW - WET LEG: MOISTURIZER
ALBUM REVIEW - BARRY CAN'T SWIM: LONER
ALBUM REVIEW - CORY HANSON: I LOVE PEOPLE
INTERVIEW - CORY HANSON
EP REVIEW - LEI HOPE: INERTIA
ALBUM REVIEW: MADE KUTI - CHAPTER 1: WHERE DOES HAPPINESS COME FROM?
SINGLE REVIEW - ALKALINE TRIO: OBLIVION
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 18 JULY 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - BUSH: I BEAT LONELINESS
