The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law {rating} Buy: Wolf’s Law It’s been two years since Welsh trio The Joy Formidable released their debut album The Big Roar. In that time their brand of hugely anthemic power-rock has seen them become the stadium support act of choice, with Muse and Foo Fighters enlisting them to gee…
Regular contributor Philip Lickley takes us through the pick of this weeks single releases… Single Reviews – 20 January Featuring new releases from Justin Timberlake, Jessie Ware, Amelia Lily and more. Share your own verdicts on this weeks new singles in the comments section at the bottom. Al Lewis – ‘Make A Little Room’ [rating:3/5]…
Just for the fun of seeing Jake Bugg sing about Clifton and White Lightning to a probably very bemused US audience, this is worth a watch: Bugg was performing on Conan O’Brien’s talkshow as he continues the promotional tour of his self-titled debut album – which has helped garner him a Brit Awards nomination.
It’s been a long time coming but it seems we may finally have a new Little Boots album soon. Since her breakout year in 2009, which saw the release of debut album Hands, we’ve been teased with a second album – only for Victoria Hesketh to go quiet again. Way back in November 2011 we…
As you would expect, when Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced their new album Mosquito earlier this week it created a lot of excitement. Rather than all the talk being about the return of one of the best bands of the past decade, though, all the attention was on the mental artwork – a neon image depicting…
Manchester producer D/R/U/G/S has released a new mixtape of what he calls ‘new, unreleased and experimental beats’. It’s brilliantly titled ‘How To Build A Nuclear Reactor’, and has the even more brilliant artwork of a lion chewing on a diamond! The mixtape is a great journey through Callum Wright’s trippy and at times pulsating ouevre,…
Most of the talk around hot new London four-piece Palma Violets has been around their explosive live shows. So far, though, there’s not been too many opportunities to experience them live (unless you live in London, of course), so today’s announcement of a headline UK tour this March is a welcome one. Palma Violets will…
Dizzee Rascal has revealed his new album will be called The Fifth. Dizzee revealed the album title while speaking to Zane Lowe on his Radio 1 show, and also declared it to be his best album yet. The rapper said: It’s the best produced album I’ve done so far because of the calibre of producers…
There’s been a lot of talk today about a new Strokes album being on the horizon, and it looks like there may be some substance to the rumours. Seattle radio station ‘107.7 The End ‘ started the rumours earlier by saying on their Facebook page that they’d just had the first listen to a new…
As reported a few days ago, the next single to be taken from Bloc Party’s brilliant album Four will be ‘Truth’ – and today the band have released the promo video for it. Watch the Clemens Habicht directed video here: ‘Truth’ is to be released on 25 February as a digital bundle along with several remixes….
