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…
Single Reviews – 7 October The pick of this weeks new single releases from Philip Lickley. Adele – ’Skyfall’ [rating:4/5] Buy: Skyfall And so we get to the latest Bond theme ahead of the new film later this month, with the world’s worst kept secret officially revealed, that Adele is the vocalist. ‘Skyfall’ is a…
Indie pop duo Cults are back with new album Static next week – the follow-up to their very promising 2011 self-titled debut. Before the release of the album, the New York based pair have made it available to stream online via NPR.org. Listen to Static in full by following this link: Cults Static stream Cults’…
Australian rocker Nick Cave is to add guest vocals to electro-outfit UNKLE’s new album. Speaking to BBC 6 Music, the duo confirmed that Nick Cave will feature on the album, which is tentatively scheduled for release early next year and has the working title ‘Day Fall’. UNKLE only released their latest album, ‘Where Did The…
As part of the promotion of his new album Beautful Rewind, Four Tet played a marathon eight hour DJ stint on Rinse FM last night/this morning. Naturally he played a lot of cool stuff, and there should be a stream/podcast of the first two hours of the show coming up soon. Before that though, you…
After the blockbusting month of album releases that was September, this month’s schedule doesn’t look quite as impressive. Other than Arcade Fire’s potentially huge Reflektor, there’s nothing that immediately catches the eye. Take a closer look though and there’s plenty of interesting albums to get excited about in October. From the return of Sleigh Bells…
