New Town Velocity video

Watch: Johnny Marr – ‘New Town Velocity’ video

Johnny Marr heads home to Manchester for the video ‘New Town Velocity’ – a downbeat and melodic highlight from his excellent recent solo album The Messenger. Watch the video here: ‘New Town Velocity’ is released on 22 July as a download, and will also be available as a limited edition 7″.

Jake Bugg

Jake Bugg tickets on sale tomorrow at 9am – buying guide

Tickets for Jake Bugg’s three newly announced gigs in Scotland go on general sale tomorrow (Friday 18 July) at 9am. The three gigs in Scotland added to his October UK tour are: October 09 – GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall October 10 – DUNDEE Caird Hall October 12 – EDINBURGH Usher Hall Here’s the link to […]

The Killers to play one-off UK show in August

Las Vegas band The Killers are gearing up for the release of their new album Battleborn with a special 0ne-off UK headline show in August. The gig, at Leeds O2 Academy on 17 August, will act as a warm-up show for the bands headline slot at V Festival the following weekend – so we can […]

Kasabian release video for Switchblade Smiles…

Kasabian have finally released the video for ‘Switchblade Smiles’, the lead single to their eagerly awaited fourth album Velociraptor! Keen followers of Kasabian will probably note a slight change of direction in this video – which deviates from the narrative-led formula of their past videos to a more stylised approach. It seems to fit nicely […]

Listen: Holy Other – ‘Held’

Holy Other has released another taster from his upcoming debut album Held – out 27 August on TriAngle Records. Following on from last months ‘Love Some1’ is the albums title track: I think you’ll agree this guy sounds pretty special, in an atmospheric, post-dubstep kind of way. In support of Held, Holy Other has announced […]

Lily Allen

Lily Allen is not a popular choice to replace Two Door Cinema Club as Latitude headliner!

After singer Alex Trimble fell ill Two Door Cinema Club had to bow out of this weekends Latitude Festival earlier today. Not to worry though, festival organisers moved quickly to arrange what they thought was a suitable replacement – with none other than pop superstar and voice of our times Lily Allen. It’s a shame, […]

Hive video

Watch: Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Hive’

After confirming last week that his first album proper, Doris, will be released next month, prodigiously talented Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has today released the video for brand new album cut ‘Hive’. Odd Future associates Vince Staples and Casey Veggies also feature on ‘Hive’, but it’s Earl’s drawly, DOOM-esque flow that really stand out. […]