NEWS: WYE OAK – FREE DOWNLOAD AND TOUR

With their latest album ‘Civilian’ released to widespread applaud earlier this year, their latest single ‘Holy Holy’ currently in heavy radio rotation and having recently sold out their second ever London headline show in the blink of an eye, Baltimore’s WYE OAK have just confirmed lots more European tour dates and are giving ‘Holy Holy’ […]
Big Deal will take to the road for a headline tour of the UK that includes a London date with support from Weird Dreams at Tamesis Dock on 24 August. The tour coincides with the release of their debut album Lights Out, out 29 August 2011, and the new single ‘Chair’, out 22 August. In addition to the September […]

NEWS: BIG DEAL – AUG/SEPT TOUR

NEWS: CASSETES WON’T LISTEN – FREE MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD

EVINSPACEY is the new album from Jason Drake, aka Cassettes Won’t Listen, due for release through Daylight Curfew on August 15th. Initially titled KEVINSPACEY, the award winning actor of the record’s namesake was not amused, serving Drake with a cease and desist order leading to the album’s re-titling. Same great taste, different name. Jason Drake […]
Scumbag Philosopher’s new single ‘God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead’ is about a certain kind of suburban Nietzsche freak who attaches themselves to certain introspective musicians and to certain philosophers – or rather to their more well-known quotes. In the 70s that musician would have been Bowie – these days it’s Radiohead. So […]

NEWS: SCUMBAG PHILOSOPHER RELEASE VIDEO FOR ‘GOD IS DEAD SO I LISTEN TO RADIOHEAD’

NEWS: THE VACCINES MAKE FAN VIDEO FOR ‘WETSUIT’

Fans of The Vaccines’ are being given the opportunity to get involved in creating a new video for the band’s forthcoming single, ‘Wetsuit.’ The band is asking their fans to take photos at festivals using the free iPhone app Instagram, tag them with #vaccinesvideo and they’ll then create an animated photo video. The Vaccines are […]
Following three packed debut shows in London earlier this month, sun-splashed Lafayette, Louisiana quintet Givers have announced details of their second run of UK shows and festivals in August. Ahead of the tour, they will release their debut single ‘Up Up Up’ via Glassnote Records/ Island Records on 1st August. ‘Up Up Up’ received its […]

NEWS: GIVERS TOUR AND FREE REMIX DOWNLOAD

NEWS: TWIN SISTER VIDEO AND TOUR DATES

This Long Island band were first brought to my attention when Huey Morgan played ‘All Around And Away We Go’ from their EP ‘Color Your Life’ on his BBC 6music radio show. The stations other DJ’s quickly caught on and a long player has been eagerly anticipated. The EP generally had a moodier edge to […]
The video for the lead single from her forthcoming album ‘Biophilia’ has been directed by movie maker Michel Gondry (External Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep). This is their eighth collaboration, firstly in 1993 with ‘Human Behaviour’ and most recently ‘Declare Independence’ in 2007. Gondry provides another trademark inventive storyboard, blending various […]

NEWS: BJORK ‘CRYSTALINE’ VIDEO

NEWS: I LIKE TRAINS – FREE REMIX OF ‘SIRENS’

I Like Trains have released a free remix of their new single Sirens (out on Monday, 11th July). Remixed by Honour Before Glory aka Whiskas (!Forward Russia! / Dance To The Radio) new solo project. ‘Sirens’ is one of the more direct moments on I Like Trains’ second full length record ‘He Who Saw the […]
Although Poly Styrene tragically succumbed to cancer in April, she had thankfully finished recording her Generation Indigo album before being diagnosed, thus providing the 21st century with one of its defining statements, in similar fashion to her uncannily clairvoyant X-Ray Spex missives of the punk era. Following the computer-age ‘Virtual Boyfriend’, which trailered the album […]

NEWS: POLY STYRENE – NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO