Following the recent single ‘Horizon’ – a lover’s call to arms which also features on her 4AD debut – Aldous Harding releases its follow-up. Check out new single and video for ‘Imagining My Man’; an intensely intimate listen as Aldous explores the curiosity of a lover’s idiosyncrasies. The video was created by ‘Horizon’ director Charlotte […]
I fell hard for Future Islands when I heard ‘Seasons (Waiting For You)’ from their last album – 2014’s Singles. To be more accurate I fell in love when I saw them play the track on Jools Holland – that lush, buxom electronic backdrop and lead singer Samuel T. Herring’s impassioned vocals. Actually to be […]
The Lemon Twigs share their new video for ‘I Wanna Prove To You’. Watch the video below. The Lemon Twigs are teenage brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario from Long Island, NY. Check out their debut album, Do Hollywood, out now, which was recorded in Los Angeles with Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado. Having recently performed on The […]
The talented New Zealand-er Aldous Harding, has recently joined the 4AD family. She now shares new song ‘Horizon’, presenting a powerful opening statement, alongside a startling companion video. Having recently opened for label mates Deerhunter, Aldous Harding will be bringing her extraordinary live show to the UK and Europe later this year. ALDOUS HARDING MAY […]
Having just finished their first European tour, The Lemon Twigs of Long Island are set to return to the continent in the Spring for another round of live dates. The brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario will be joined onstage by live band members Megan Zeankowski (bass) and Danny Ayala (keyboards). Tickets for all shows (excluding London) go on sale […]
– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – “Welcome to the public library” quips Carson Cox as he shuffles about the dimly lit stage in the bowels of The Castle Hotel. Merchandise, hailing from Tampa, Florida are about to take us on a journey of eighties influenced nostalgia. The original line-up was a three-piece playing with a […]
Tim Hecker’s forthcoming album, Love Streams, is released on April 8th 2016. His debut record for 4AD, Hecker today releases the first taste from the album, a track entitled ‘Castrati Stack’. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, Love Streams was assembled […]
Daughter – the London-based trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella – have launched the final instalment of their film triptych, for the single ‘How’ (taken from their second album Not To Disappear) Directed by BAFTA-nominated filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (creators of the startling Nick Cave feature film 20,000 Days On Earth), the […]
Prior to the album release, Bradford Cox revealed Concept Map listing the influences of the album, which seems to have acted as a handy companion to any press release. Most reviews already posted seem to pick a circle of the map and use that as the premise for their review (see Ian Cohen of Pitchfork’s focus on […]
Beirut band leader Zach Condon’s story is film-worthy – as a young jazz trumpeter, he was exposed to mariachi music while growing up in Sante Fé, New Mexico. At 17, he dropped out of school and ran away to Paris after working in an international film cinema, where Sicilian funeral brass music and Balkan folk had caught his […]
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Between September 2011 and March 2020 we provided a handpicked gig guide every month without fail. It's painful for us that there are currently no gigs to recommend. We hope gigs will return soon to bring you new recommendations, but if you want to reminisce you can still see nine years worth of old gig guides.
