Ever since Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr announced his debut solo album ‘The Messenger’ I’ve been waiting to hear what a 100% Marr track actually sounds like. Today I found out, and unsurprisingly it sounds brilliant! Watch the promo video for album title track ‘The Messenger’ below and let me know what you think in the…
The Killers have revealed plans to play their biggest ever headline show next year at Wembley Stadium. The Las Vegas band will play the legendary venue on 22 June. Killers drummer Ronnie Vanucci had this to say about the gig: It sort of feels like the full-circle moment in a way. We started out here…
Laim Gallagher’s post-Oasis band Beady Eye have announced they are back in the studio working on the follow-up to debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding – which will be produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek. Sitek, who has previously worked with the likes of Foals and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, seems a surprisingly creative…
Got a cool bit of post-punk for you all to check out today, from new London three-piece MYSTYRYS – who seem to specialise in the dirty and rhythmic side of post punk (think early Horrors). Here’s their second double-A side release ‘Cloud Appreciation’ / ‘Sea Ice’, which is out on 10 December through Psychic Healing…
They may have made us wait two years for their debut album, but Manchester band Egyptian Hip Hop are starting to repay their fans’ faith – first with the release of the brilliant Good Don’t Sleep, and now with a six-date headline UK tour. As part of a huge 24-date European tour that runs from…
Outkast rapper/producer Big Boi has teamed up with hip-hop man-of-the-moment A$AP Rocky and indie-pop duo Phantogram for ‘Lines’, the latest track from his upcoming second debut album Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors – the follow-up to 2010’s brilliant Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty. Stream the funky and spaced-out ‘Lines’ here: The release…
Single Reviews – 11 November Time for Philip Lickley to pass judgement on the pick of this weeks new single releases. Let us know if you agree with him in the comments at the bottom… Example – ’Close Enemies’ [rating:3/5] Buy: Close Enemies Elliot “Example” Gleave, this time riding solo, churns out another in an…
Crystal Castles – (III) {rating} Buy: (III) With Crystal Castles singer Alice Glass describing the duo’s third album as the ‘soundtrack to a dystopic world full of oppression and corruption’; and the album tracklist boasting song titles like ’Plague’, ’Wrath Of God’, ’Kerosene’ and ’Violent Youth’, you can understand why fans of the Canadian electro-goth…
With their new album Wolf’s Law out in January and a UK tour on the horizon, it’s time for The Joy Formidable to remind us of their distinct brand of unpretentious and invigorating power-pop. Here’s the video for the album’s lead single ‘This Ladder Is Ours’ to do just that:
Following the very cinematic and expansive promo video for ‘Ride’, Lana Del Rey has gone back to basics for the video for ‘Bel Air’ – another ‘bonus’ track from her Born To Die: Paradise Edition release. Watch the smoky and sultry video here: The description of the video on YouTube mentions a film called…
