The xx have today announced their second album will be released on 10 September. The follow-up to their break out 2009 debut album will be called Coexist, and was once again produced by the bands Jamie Smith in their London studio. The xx, who you can see above performing debut album track ‘Crystalised’, released a…
Bloc Party have revealed the name of their upcoming fourth album will be imaginatively titled Four. The band released the above trailer online today to announce the new album – the follow-up to 2008’s Intimacy. Four will be released on 20 August and was produced by Mars Volta producer Alex Newport. Along with the album…
Las Vegas band The Killers (above is their song from the recent Dark Shadows film soundtrack) have revealed their upcoming fourth studio album will be called Battle Born. The album, the follow-up to their 2008 release Day & Age, is named after their recording studio – with Battle Born also being the nickname of their…
The writer of a new film based on The Stone Roses has revealed the newly reformed Madchester legends ‘have at least three or four tracks recorded’. Speaking to the BBC, Chris Coghill (who also starred in the film 24 Hour Party People) said The Stone Roses (who you can see performing ‘I Am The Resurrection’…
Sheffield singer-songwriter Richard Hawley has today announced a 14-date UK tour to take place this autumn. The singer, who released his brilliant (I don’t give 5 stars out willy-nilly!) new album Standing At The Sky’s Edge (featuring the above single ‘Leave Your Body Behind You’) will begin the tour in Holmfirth on 16 September and wrap…
The iTunes Festival is all set to light up London’s Roundhouse again this September – with artists set to perform every night of the month. More than 60 artists will be taking to the stage to perform in front of competition winners. The first acts announced today include Usher, Norah Jones, One Direction and Jack…
Icelandic experimental band Sigur Ros have announced they will be streaming their new album, Valtari, worldwide at 7pm this Thursday (17 May) for one hour only. The band are calling the event ‘Valtari Hour’, and more information can be found at their official site: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/hour/ In what could be an inspired piece of social media marketing,…
I’ll be honest, these guys first grabbed my attention because of the cool name (that kind of thing does make a difference when you’ve got an inbox full of new music to work through) – but then I realised they were named after the Rugrats character, which kind of spoiled it for me. Luckily, their…
Bursting out of Manchester sounding like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club covering The Killers, we predict big things for the gloriously names The Slow Readers Club in 2012. Their self-titled debut album is due out this summer, but for now here’s their brilliant new single ‘Feet On Fire’ for your delectation: Caught somewhere between joyful youthful…
What do you get if you cross the howling vocals of Caleb Followhill with the effortlessly delicate rhythm of The Police? Thanks to hotly tipped new band Masters In France we finally get an answer to this age old question, in the form of their new, free to download single, ‘Fall Down’: The more we…
