Tribes’ second album Wish To Scream is out on 20 May, and by the sounds of lead single ‘How The Other Half Live‘ and newly revealed single ‘Dancehall’ it’s shaping up to be pretty good. Like ‘How The Other Half Live’, ‘Dancehall’ is a powerful melody driven track that plays to Tribes rough-around-the-edges strengths. Check…
‘Haunting’, ‘moody’, ‘atmospheric’. All words that are heavily associated with James Blake’s music, so this new Nabil Elderkin directed video for the title track of Blake’s new album is right on the money: Read my 4-star review of James Blake’s second album Overgrown here.
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light It’s one of life’s enduring, and annoying, mysteries that Dave Grohl has managed to raise himself to the position as ‘rock god’ with just a bunch of uninspiring rock-by-numbers albums and the odd catchy chorus to his name. By hanging around long enough and aligning himself with two of rock’s…
Foals are over in the US of A to play at Coachella this weekend and next, and were on US talkshow Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night playing Holy Fire singles ‘Inhaler’ and ‘My Number’. Unsurprisingly, they were pretty awesome – despite Yannis sounding a bit gruff! Watch both performances below: The Coachella festival in California…
Last month Miles Kane followed up the excellent single ‘Give Up‘ by announcing details about his second album ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are’. Today he’s revealed the title track of the album, which is a slightly trippy and upbeat track that feels a bit like The Coral. Check it out below and let me know…
Manchester rockers The Courteeners have today premiered the video for new single ‘Van Der Graaff’ – one of the highlights from recent album Anna. The video is a pretty standard live performance of the song cut together from different gigs – and features lots of rock star poses from Liam Fray and co. Check it…
Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye have announced their second album will be called BE and will be released on 10 June through Columbia Records. The follow-up to their 2011 debut Different Gear, Still Speeding was produced by Dave Sitek (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio) and was recorded in London. Here’s what Liam had to…
New music round up – no. 7 More new music for you to check out and get into today from NO CEREMONY///, Suzuki Method, Splashh, Wild Swim and Sam Thomas. If you have any cool new music suggestions, add them in the comments below for everyone to check out… NO CEREMONY/// – ‘HURTLOVE’ Mysterious Manchester…
The Slow Readers Club – ‘The Slow Readers Club’ [rating:4/5] Buy The Slow Readers Club [Explicit] Regular readers may remember I featured Manchester four-piece The Slow Readers Club’s single ’Feet On Fire’ in the New Music section recently. Well I’ve managed to get hold of their self-titled debut album (out 21 May on Extenso Music)…
Bass player Mani has laid into fellow Mancunian Peter Hook in a blistering Twitter attack, accusing the former Joy Division and New Order legend of living off the memory of Ian Curtis. Mani wrote: “… he ain’t got time for me now he’s getting fortunes for dragging his mates cadaver round the world getting himself…
