As reported last month, Muse will be playing a pre-Brit Awards benefit concert for War Child next Monday (18 February) – to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the charity. Predictably, tickets for the gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire sold out in a matter of minutes – but if you weren’t able to get a…
Tribes have announced an 11-date UK headline tour in support of their second album Wish To Scream. The album, the follow-up to 2012’s debut Baby, will feature new single ‘How The Other Half Live’ and will be released on 20 May. The tour starts in Sheffield on 6 April and culminates in a huge show…
Gabriel Stebbings, formerly of Metronomy, is gearing up to release the first album under his Night Works guise. The album, called Urban Heat Island, is out on 4 March and, judging by taster tracks ‘The Eveningtime’ and ‘Long Forgotten Boy’, it promises to be full of offbeat and soulful disco-pop. Ahead of the album, Night…
James Blake unveiled ‘Retrograde’ last week as the first single from his upcoming second album Overgrown, and today he debuted the official video on his YouTube channel. The video was directed by long-time collaborator Martin de Thurah, and is a suitably classy affair. Check it out here: ‘Retrograde’ is released tomorrow (11 February), and Overgrown…
Philip Lickley take us through another batch of new single releases – what will you be downloading this week? Single Releases – 10 February Avicii V Nicky Romero – ‘I Could Be The One’ [rating:3/5] Buy: I Could Be the One Fresh from big hits like ‘Levels’, Avicii teams up with Nicky Romero on this…
My Bloody Valentine – m b v {rating} Buy: www.mybloodyvalentine.org Of all the album reviews I’ve ever written, this is by far the hardest. Where do I start? Shall I begin with the long preamble about ‘seminal’ 1991 album Loveless? Or focus mostly on the long and protracted release of this follow-up? Maybe it would…
I put a request out on Facebook earlier in the week for some new music tips, and received so many cool new band and artist suggestions that I thought I’d include them all in one place for you to check out. If you know of any new or unknown bands that deserve a bit more…
Atoms For Peace will finally unleash their debut album AMOK on 25 February, and today Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich have announced they will host three different album launch parties – in London, Berlin and New York. The duo will play a special DJ set at The Oval Space in London on 22 February,…
‘Retrograde’, the new single from post-dubstep poster-boy James Blake, is now available to stream online – and surprise, surprise it’s brilliant. Listen to it here: As reported earlier, ‘Retrograde’ is the first single lifted from Blake’s second album Overgrown – which is out on 6 April. ‘Retrograde’ will be available to download on 11 February.
Two Door Cinema Club have released a video for ‘Next Year’, the latest track to be lifted from their second album Beacon. The video features live footage of the band headlining The O2 Arena in Dublin – which was their biggest gig to date. Here’s what guitarist Sam Halliday said of the video: We’ve been…
