AlunaGeorge debuted their new single ‘Attracting Flies’ tonight on Radio 1, and have also made it available to stream: While it may not be as immediate as ‘White Noise’, their crossover hit with production duo Disclosure, ‘Attracting Flies’ does have some fine elements – particularly Aluna’s edgy vocal delivery: “everything you exhale, is attracting flies’….
The increasingly impressive promotional campaign for new David Bowie album The Next Day stepped up another gear today, with the release of new single ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’ – which is available to buy now. The single is a more upbeat affair than the elegiac ‘Where Are We Now?’ – but shares the same…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have revealed the first single from their upcoming new album Mosquito. ‘Sacrilege’ got its first play on Radio 1 earlier tonight, check it out: Sounds pretty awesome to me, what do you think?
Beyonce and Kings Of Leon were confirmed as this years V Festival headliners tonight. Festival organisers announced the full line-up at 8pm this evening, ahead of the tickets going on sale this week. For full ticket and line-up details head over to the official site: vfestival.com Other notable acts playing this years V Festival, which…
Little Boots has finally lifted the lid on her second album – almost four years after her debut Hands. Called Nocturnes, the album will be released on 5 May and features the above artwork as well as brand new track ‘Motorway’ – which you can hear below and download for free from Little Boots’ website….
Atoms For Peace – Amok {rating} Buy: Amok This may well have been packaged up and presented to us as a collective effort between musician friends but, whether he likes it or not, Amok is basically Thom Yorke’s follow-up to The Eraser. Atoms For Peace are named after a track on The Eraser and were…
A previously unheard Frank Ocean song has hit the web today. Called ‘Eyes Like Sky’, the acoustic guitar driven ballad is apparently an offshoot from the singers Channel Orange sessions – rather than a brand new track. Listen to ‘Eyes Like Sky’ here: Ocean, who was one of the few deserving winners at last weeks…
This weeks single releases – 24 February Phil Lickley takes us through his pick of this weeks new single releases…. Bastille – ‘Pompeii’ [rating:3.5/5] Buy: Pompeii The fourth single from their ‘Bad Blood’ album is built around a really catchy click-track and drum beat plus some almost tribal chants. A strong follow-up to ‘Flaws’, this…
UPDATE – the line up has just been announced, click here. Tomorrow night V Festival organisers will release the full line up for this years festival. If you’re one of the many thousands who have already registered and are waiting on the line up before forking out for a ticket, I’m guessing you’re going to…
Why was the Brits so rubbish? In typically succinct fashion, Noel Gallagher summed up last weeks desperately dull Brit Awards with one simple rhetorical question: ‘Where have all the rock stars gone?’ Obviously guitar-based ‘rock’ music can’t always be at the very forefront of our nation’s music scene (apparently these things run in ‘cycles’), but…
