COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE SHARE A ‘CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST’ WITH US

By now you would have heard that Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, are releasing a special collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice out Friday 13th October 2017 – a glorious peek behind the studio doors of two artists and an unabashed celebration of their unique, long-standing friendship. After the release of opening single ‘Over Everything’, the […]

Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, have joined forces to release on Friday 13th October (Marathon Artists/Matador/Milk! Recordings/Mom & Pop) a new album collaboration, Lotta Sea Lice. First single ‘Over Everything’, features dovetailing vocal lines and intricate, guitar stylings from the pair. The lyrics play out as a rambling dialogue as they compare notes about song-writing and inspiration – it was the […]

COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE ANNOUNCE ‘LOTTA SEA LICE’ LP RELEASED OCT – WATCH FIRST SINGLE VIDEO ‘OVER EVERYTHING’ NOW

LP COLLABORATION BETWEEN COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE TO BE RELEASED

Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have revealed that they have completed a collaboration album for release later this year. In support of this they will be leading an all-star band on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of North America this autumn. Kurt Vile said of the collaboration: “It started out as, maybe we’ll do a split 7″ […]

– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – Kurt Viles’ music for the gentle outlaw is a soothing painkiller for these days of daze and outrage. Some kind of warm beneath your iced bones. The Ritz is packed and I can’t help smiling as in a happy-go-lucky TV commercial. It’s just great to see that we all gathered […]

LIVE: KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS – 18/11/2015

Album Review: Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin down…

Within the first 30 seconds of b’lieve I’m goin down… we are once again fully acquainted with the languid, finger-pickin-on-the-ranch, meandering tendencies of Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile. After a brief spell as member of The War on Drugs, he has been releasing solo albums for seven years, peaking commercially with 2011’s Smoke Ring for My Halo and […]

Misissippi psych stomper ‘Pretty Pimpin’ is the lead track from the b’lieve I’m going down… album, Vile’s hotly anticipated fifth. It catches him in fine form but also in contemplative mood, and in the midst of an identity crisis. The whole ensemble reads like the rueful dregs of a drunken weekend, swilling at the bottom of […]

Single Review: Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin

KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR

Kurt Vile has announced details of a new album and new tour, including a Manchester date. b’lieve i’m goin down… has not been given an exact release date but is expected to be out on Matador Records sometime in the autumn. The album will be his sixth full length effort, and will follow 2013’s Walkin […]

‘Feel My Pain’ is the new song from Kurt Vile’s forthcoming 12″ and digital EP on Matador Records ‘it’s a big world out there (and i am scared)’, with the new deluxe edition of Wakin On A Pretty Daze adding the EP as bonus content for the second CD and digital download. One of seven new […]

NEWS: KURT VILE – LISTEN TO ‘FEEL MY PAIN’ FROM HIS NEW EP

NEWS: KURT VILE – UK TOUR / LP + VIDEO

Kurt Vile and his band The Violators have announced UK tour dates for the end of the year, following triumphant sets at Field Day and Primavera festivals in May. Currently on tour in Europe, the forthcoming dates are the only scheduled UK appearances for 2013, these follow the acclaimed new album Wakin On A Pretty Daze […]

Smoke Ring For My Halo was my favourite album of 2011, and though, in retrospect it’s now eclipsed by M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming and Slave Ambient by former bandmates the excellently named The War on Drugs, it remains an album I return to from time to time with real relish. What I like most […]