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…
It’s finally happened! I’ve been holding out on mentioning the all-pervasive multi-media behemoth that is GTA 5, but I can’t resist any longer. Not when they’re throwing out cool stuff like this! Below is the full stream of Flying Lotus’ specially curated ‘radio station’ for the game – called FlyLo FM – featuring lots of…
Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr has revealed he is releasing a new solo EP on his bandmate Julian Casablanca’s record label Cult Records. The five-track EP, simply titled ‘AHJ’, will be released on 8 October and features the very striking artwork above. In preparation of the EP’s release, Cult Records have released a stream of…
Tame Impala’s Lonerism highlight ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards‘ is one of those very rare songs that already feels like a timeless classic – so naturally it has attracted quite a lot of remixes and reworkings over the past few months. Some of the remixes have been quite good, but this new one from…
Kasabian singer Tom Meighan will join former Oasis drummer Zak Starkey’s brilliantly named new band Penguinrising on stage for two live shows next month. Starkey plays guitar in the new band, with Javier Weyler on drums and the amazingly named Sshh Liguz on vocals. Tom will join the band onstage for their gig at London’s…
Thanks to a steady stream of singles, videos and festival shows over the past year or so it feels like LA siblings HAIM have been around for ages. In actual fact, they haven’t even released their debut album yet. That’s all about to change next week when the long-awaited LP – Days Are Gone –…
After lead singer Daniel Blumberg left earlier this year things didn’t look good for London-based fuzz-rockers Yuck. But since his departure (to form new band Hebronix) Yuck have regrouped and, with guitarist Max Bloom taking up vocal duties, sound better than ever. They’ve already shared the aptly-titled new track ‘Rebirth‘ as well as the brilliant…
The world wouldn’t seem right if there wasn’t a swirl of drama surrounding MIA. First there were the revelations that her record label had rejected her new album Matangi and sent her back to the studio to add a bit more attitude to it. More recently the singer has become embroiled in a legal war…
