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With all the hoohah over the past week about Daft Punk’s new single ‘Get Lucky’, the actual issue of whether the song is any good or not has kind of been overlooked. But seeing as this is the first taste of Daft Punk’s first proper album in 8 years, ‘Get Lucky’ is a big deal […]
‘Shut Up’ is the latest track from highly rated punks Savages to get the video treatment ahead of the release of their debut album Silence Yourself on 6 May. The video, directed by Giorgio Testi, begins with frontwoman Jehnny Beth reading the bands artistic mission statement (which is included on the above album artwork) before […]
Cool new music for you today from Brighton-based trio Tall Ships, who describe themselves as an ‘experimental loop band’ – which I think means they like to mess about in the studio a lot. Here’s their new single ‘T=O’, which shows that studio time is not wasted: ‘T=0’ is the first single to be taken […]
Metal legends Black Sabbath are gearing up to release a new album on 11 June. Called 13, the album was produced by fellow legend Rick Rubin and features Rage Against The Machine’s Brad Wilk on drumming duty. Today Black Sabbath have unveiled the first single from 13 called ‘God Is Dead?’, a sprawling 9 minute […]
Production brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence, better known as Disclosure, have announced they will release a new EP on 30 April in the US through their new label Cherrytree/Interscope. The EP is called ‘The Singles’, and unsurprisingly it features previous singles ‘Latch’ and ‘White Noise‘ as well as new single ‘You & Me’. Also on […]
A Pulp song produced by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and remixed by Soulwax could never be anything other than brilliant could it, really? ‘After You’ is an old Pulp demo that was ‘finished off’ by James Murphy and released as a free download over Christmas, and is now set to be released properly for Record […]
Twitter has today launched its rumoured #music service which, in their words, “will change the way people find music”. The new #music service makes full use of all of Twitter’s internal data – Tweets, Retweets, Favourites, Replies etc… to provide a real-time selection of the most popular tracks – which you can then listen to […]
Turns out the ‘leak’ I posted yesterday was an elaborate hoax with someone doing a decent job of impersonating Pharrell Williams. But not to worry, in the ever interesting world of Daft Punk another development is never far away! The above is the artwork for new single ‘Get Lucky’, which Amazon are using on their product […]
Is this the official version of new Daft Punk single ‘Get Lucky’? It’s hard to know for sure, as there has been a lot of ‘leaks’ surfacing over the past week or so. This one sounds a bit more credible though – with the length of the track fitting in with the tracklist and the […]
The soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s glossy adaptation of The Great Gatsby has become one of the most anticipated albums of the year so far, thanks to Jay Z’s involvement as ‘executive producer’ and an all-star cast that includes Beyonce (covering Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ with Andre 3000), Lana Del Rey, Jack White, Emeli Sande, […]