Hotly-tipped Manchester band Embers will join the likes of Yuck and Swiss Lips in a new War Child event this autumn spanning four major UK cities. Teaming up with hotel chain Tune Hotels, children’s charity War Child is hosting gigs in London, Brigton, Manchester and Edinburgh as part of the ‘Tune Up’ Festival. It all…
Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn is back in Mali and recording a new album featuring local musicians and a host of international stars including producer Brian Eno, The Wire/Luther star and DJ Idris Elba, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Ghostpoet and Holy Other. The album is part of the Africa Express project Albarn…
London psychers (that’s my new word for ‘psych-rock band’, I’m hoping it catches on…) TOY have today announced they will release their second album on 9 December. Called Join The Dots, the album follows TOY’s self-titled debut which came out to critical acclaim just last year. Like their debut, Join The Dots was produced by…
The dream duo of Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton and James ‘The Shins’ Mercer aka Broken Bells have today announced they will release their second album in January 2013. The duo got together in 2010 and released a pretty brilliant self-titled album, but then went back to their many other projects – Danger Mouse has been…
Tickets for next years Glastonbury Festival went on sale this morning and sold out in record time – 1 hour 27 mins to be precise – which means thoughts now naturally turn to what bands people will be seeing for their £210 entrance fee. 70’s rockers Fleetwood Mac have been one of the favourites to…
When he announced his new album Beautiful Rewind a few months ago Four Tet took a bit of a swipe at the music industry, saying: “no pre order, no youtube trailers, no itunes stream, no spotify, no amazon deal, no charts, no bit coin deal, no last minute rick rubin.” Other than share a couple…
There’s been a lot of awesome new music hitting the web over September, all of which is collated in the playlist below for your listening pleasure. So sit back, relax and recap the pick of September’s new music: September new music – playlist 01. Ryan Hemsworth – ‘Against A Wall’ 02. Peace – ‘White Noise’…
With their new album now only a matter of weeks away, Arcade Fire have started to ramp up the buzz in their own idiosyncratic way. For a band who announced their album via graffiti and released a fully interactive video for lead single ‘Reflektor’, a simple appearance on Saturday Night Live obviously wasn’t enough. So…
CHVRCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe {rating} Buy: The Bones Of What You Believe To the casual listener it may not be apparent exactly why Glasgow trio CHVRCHES are rated so highly. There’s nothing new or fresh about marrying synths with sweet pop melodies after all, but they do it with such lush…
It’s a brave band to take on the late Whitney Houston’s back catalogue, but Glasgow electro-pop trio are riding high at the minute and have turned their synthy talents to Houston’s ‘It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay’. CHVRCHES performed the cover on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show earlier this week, and it’s now available to…
