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Kicking off with Tame Impala’s dreamy cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger In Moscow‘ and finishing off with promising new band Sundara Karma, the below playlist is full of cracking new tunes from the month of March. In between those tracks is a brand new track from The Orwells, De La Soul’s Dilla-produced ‘Vocabulary Spills’, a […]
Thanks to the huge success of second album Lonerism, Tame Impala have seemingly been touring non-stop for the past two years. The downside to that is that new material becomes thin on the ground – save for the odd amazing cover version, of course. It makes sense then, that Tame Impala are planning on releasing […]
Tame Impala are soon to be hitting these shores for a quick tour, which will see them supporting Arctic Monkeys in those awesome looking Finsbury Park shows. To whet our collective appetites for their particular brand of psych-rock, the Aussie band have today released a fantastic cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger In Moscow’. At first […]
There’s something about Tame Impala’s particular brand of woozy, spaced-out psych-rock that makes them eminently remixable. The latest remix of a Lonerism track to pop up on the internet is The Field’s reworking of ‘Mind Mischief’, which will feature on the single release of the track along with a remix by Ducktails. The Field’s remix […]
The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala have become BFFs recently – sharing a headline tour and putting together an EP of covers of each others tracks. The EP features Tame Impala’s versions of of the Lips’ ‘Are You A Hypnotist?’ and ‘Silver Trembling Hands’, and The Flaming Lips covers of ‘Runway, Houses, City, Clouds’ and […]
Aussie psychedelic’s Tame Impala are releasing their second album Lonerism next week, and as is the way these days they are streaming it online a week early. Listen to it in full below, courtesy of NPR: Lonerism is the follow-up to Tame Impala’s 2009 debut InnerSpeaker and features the previously released singles ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ and ‘Elephant’. The […]
Australia’s foremost purveyors of ‘psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music’ (their words!) Tame Impala have today unveiled the lead single from their highly anticipated second album Lonerism. ‘Elephant’ is a stomping slice of chilled out melodica, sounding not unlike Kasabian covering The Beatles (it does in my head anyway!) Check it out here: ‘Elephant’ follows the […]
Psychedelic Australian rockers Tame Impala have finally announced details of their follow-up to 2010’s amazing debut album Innerspeaker – and released a new track to boot. Listen to ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ here: The new album will be released in October on Modular Recordings and be called Lonerism. As you can hear from ‘Apocalypse Dreams’, the album promises […]
Tame Impala – Lonerism {rating} Buy: Lonerism The slow-burning success of multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker’s first album under his Tame Impala guise, 2010’s Innerspeaker, has helped to thrust this follow-up well into the ‘highly anticipated’ category. If this added pressure has had any detrimental effect on Parker, you wouldn’t know it from listening to Lonerism – […]
You’d be hard pushed to find a better song from the past few years than Tame Impala’s Lonerism stand-out ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards‘. It’s so good that everyone from Say Lou Lou to Kendrick Lamar have had a pop at covering it recently. They’ve now been joined by Arctic Monkeys, who recorded an […]