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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aussie psych-rock trailblazers Tame Impala are supporting Arctic Monkeys at their sold-out Finsbury Park gigs on 23 and 24 May – and have announced a one-off warm up show at the Oxford O2 Arena on the 22 May. Read more about Buy Tame Impala tickets – Oxford O2 Academy warm-up show on 22 May …
November turned out to be a bumper month of new music, and I’ve collated the pick of the new releases into the below playlist for you to enjoy as we head into December. The November playlist includes new tracks from the likes of Temples and Broken Bells as well as a fair sprinkling of remixes […]
Arctic Monkeys have today announced they will play two huge shows next spring at London’s Finsbury Park. The Sheffield band will play Finsbury Park on 23 and 24 May 2014 – and have scored something of a coup by enlisting Aussie psych-rockers Tame Impala as support act. How good are these shows going to be!? […]
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 […]