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As befitting a track that features both Jay Z and Justin Timberlake, ‘Holy Grail’ – taken from Jigga’s recent Magna Carta Holy Grail album – has been given a very slick and expensive looking promo video. The atmospheric video dives straight into the dark and twisted heart of fame, riches and opulence, and was debut […]
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Bastille – ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’ Download:Things We Lost in the Fire Single number six from Bastille lands firmly in the ballad territory telling an emotive story of lost memories over a retro-sounding keyboard riff and the band’s familiar vocal […]
Hot new Reading band Sundara Karma have released a new low-budget video for their excellent single ‘FRESHBLOOM’. Check it out: I featured Sundara Karma in my latest New Music Roundup, and things are really starting to pick up for the fresh-faced foursome. It’s not hard to see why, they fit right in with the whole […]
Kettering’s foremost psych-rockers Temples are fast becoming my favourite new band – I’m a sucker for those 60’s vibes at the minute! Following up the awesome singles ‘Shelter Song’ and ‘Colours To Life‘ is another brilliantly evocative psychedelic classic in the shape of ‘Keep In The Dark’ – they really do sound like Kasabian would […]
In a world that now contains Yeezus, Death Grips’ particular brand of brutally nihilistic punk-rap seems increasingly more relevant and essential. The Sacramento outfit are currently working on a new album slated for release in 2014, and have today released the typically sparse and bruising ‘Birds’. Listen to it below (if you’re in the right […]
Uber-cool Brooklyn duo MS MR covered Arctic Monkeys’ new track ‘Do I Wanna Know?‘ on Radio 1’s Live Lounge Late last night. If you missed it, which I’m assuming most of you did, then you can watch the video of it below: MS MR were on the show promoting their excellent debut album Secondhand Rapture, […]
Hotly-tipped pop-soul trio London Grammar are set to unleash their highly anticipated debut album If You Wait (that’s the artwork for it above) on 10 September. Before that though, they’ve released brand new track ‘Interlude’ – which is gorgeous. Check it out below: Here’s the full tracklist for If You Wait: 01. Hey Now 02. […]
With her new album Matangi being constantly delayed (it’s now slated for a 5 November release), MIA has moved to keep fans appeased by releasing a new track. Called ‘UNBREAK my Mixtape’, the new track is a love-song of sorts and acts like a mixtape within a song – so there’s lots of samples including […]
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Alistair Griffin and Leddra Chapman feat. Grimethorpe Colliery Band – ‘The One’ Fame Academy’s Griffin teams up with newbie Leddra Chapman on this ballsy ballad. Though their voices complement each other and there’s a welcome sound from the inclusion of the Colliery […]
Forget Kendrick Lamar and his scene-shaking verse, the real hip-hop news this week is the release of Flying Lotus AKA Captain Murphy’s new single in the Adult Swim Singles Series – which not only features fellow cool producer-type Thundercat but DOOM (in his Viktor Vaughn guise) and Earl Sweatshirt. The single is called ‘Between Villains’, […]