Chelsea Light Moving are set to release their debut on Matador Records later this year. All words below are by Thurston Moore: FOR IMMEDIATE…mmmmm…RELEASE (newsflash courtesy of Love Sick Times, free periodical for poets and punks) This song is called BURROUGHS. It is by the band CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING. ‘Burroughs’ is the first track from […]
Since her last trip to the UK for her November tour last year, Zola Jesus has continued to surprise and inspire her fans. Providing guest vocals on an Orbital track, an orchestral performance at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, and most recently an appearance on US talk show Conan accompanying hip hop artist El-P, 2012 has […]
Following a string of sold out European dates and a US tour supporting Jack White earlier this year, Alabama Shakes have announced that they will be doing a full European tour this November, which will include their two biggest headline shows to date at London’s Coronet and The Forum. November 2012 dates: 4th – Muffahalle […]
With today’s release of the LP ‘Unsound’ via Fire Records, Mission of Burma share another track from the album, the Clint Conley penned “Second Television”. According to founding bassist Clint Conley, the track’s title is a reference to the influential New York band Television. As he explains, “The song could be about material aspirations, but […]
The UK’s most unique boutique luxury festival, Festival No. 6, has revealed its next wave of acts including Richard Hawley, almighty psychedelic rock band Death in Vegas, Gruff Rhys, Kindness and LA indie rockers Local Natives. Joining headliners New Order, Primal Scream and Spiritualized will also be Field Music, Everything Everything, Beth Jeans Houghton, Alt-J, […]
What’s in the water up on Merseyside? It’s as if there’s an endless source of almost psychedelic otherness running deep beneath the place. It’s there in the music of everyone from the La’s to Ladytron; an off-kilter wonder that sets the place and its art apart from the rest of the country. Stealing Sheep are […]
Following the success of the band’s sold out UK tour in May and the critically acclaimed album ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships’, Brooklyn‘s We Are Augustines announce today that they will return for a full UK tour in October this year. After speedily earning a reputation as a triumphant live act, We Are Augustines have scored highly coveted spots […]
Celebrated Icelandic indie-pop sextet Of Monsters And Men, will release their boisterously catchy, chart topping second single ‘Little Talks’ on the 6th August through Island Records. Since winning a local battle of the bands competition less than twelve months ago, Of Monsters And Men’s trajectory to music’s upper echelons has been unstoppable. The band’s debut […]
Directed by Alex Southam, “Tesselate” is a twist on Italian Renaissance painter Raphael’s ‘The School of Athens’, set in a modern day gangster’s paradise. The incredible ‘Tessellate’ will be released on 16 July 2012 through Infectious Music. The track is lifted from their stunning debut album ‘An Awesome Wave.’ Get debut album ‘An Awesome Wave’ […]
Guillemots are giving away a free download of their stunning album track ‘Fleet’. The track is taken from their most recent album ‘Hello Land!’, which is the first of four albums to be released this year by the band! They like a challenge. They’ve also posted a rather beautiful video of a live performance of Fleet which can […]
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ALBUM REVIEW - LUCIA & THE BEST BOYS: PICKING PETALS
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ALBUM REVIEW - DURUTTI COLUMN: RENASCENT
ALBUM REVIEW - LOATHE: A STRANGER TO YOU
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