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Funeral Suits have released the video for their new single ‘Hands Down’ – the latest to be taken from their debut album Lily Of The Valley. Watch the Kevin Minogue directed video here: ‘Hands Down’ is out on 15 October. Funeral Suits are currently touring the UK this month, here’s their remaining dates in October: […]
Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, releases her third album The Haunted Man next week – and now you can hear a six-song preview of it below. The preview features previous releases ‘Laura’, ‘All Your Gold’ and ‘Marilyn’, as well as brand new tracks ‘A Wall’ (glitzy disco-stomper), ‘Oh Yeah’ (a bit experimental) and ‘Winter […]
The steady trickle of info regarding Crystal Castles upcoming third album III continued to today – with the electro-noise duo revealing the album’s full tracklisting on their Facebook page. Anticipation for the album is growing by the day, and judging by the two singles they’ve released so far (‘Plague’ and ‘Wrath Of God’) III could […]
The Canadian alt rockers stake a claim to be the best band in the world with their fantastic third album, The Suburbs. The suburbs – and what they represent – have always been fair game for rock stars. All sorts of images of rebellion and tortured soul histrionics can be conjured up when on the […]
Damon Albarn has spoken of his desire to turn Blur’s 1995 album The Great Escape into a musical. The ever-busy Albarn, who along with Blur is also the front-man of Gorillaz and The Good The Bad and The Queen and is involved in several African music projects and has so far written and performed two […]
LA producer Diplo is back with the follow-up to the successful ‘Express Yourself’ EP with ‘Revolution’, a six-track EP that features guest slots from the likes of Action Bronson, Mike Posner and Travis Porter amongst many others. The accompanying press blurb for the EP states quite matter of factly that ‘Diplo has produced one of […]
Magnetic Man album review To some, dubstep’s emergence from the underground to the bright lights of the mainstream is a signal that the music scene has finally run out of ideas. This hybrid genre, mixing elements of grime, drum n bass, techno, garage, trance, hip-hop and a whole lot more, feels like the well of […]
Foals have announced an 11-date UK tour to take place over November and December – in a few venues you might not expect. After the dates were revealed, singer Yannis Philippakis said on Twitter: super excited to be getting into some dank & dirty sweatbox shows. Gonna be killer — Yannis Philippakis (@YnnsPhilippakis) October 8, […]
While sitting in for Dermot O’Leary on Radio 2 this Saturday, Damon Albarn put together a pretty brilliant radio show which included interviews with Luther/The Wire star Idris Elba, The Clash’s Paul Simonon and errr, Ken Dodd. In amongst all the great guests and spot-on music choices was a brand new Gorillaz track called ‘Whirlwind’ […]
As you’re probably already aware, Four Tet marked the surprise release of his new album Beautiful Rewind with a marathon eight-hour takeover of Rinse FM last night, during which he debuted a brand new collaboration between him and fellow producer du jour Burial. Obviously, eight hours is a bit long for anyone to be listening […]