Despite the rain and oceans of unspeakable effluence, despite the contentious inclusion of a “real” Metal band and the scandalous accusations suggesting the presence of a Country & Western ventriloquism act (directed at a real life Dolly) and, despite the rather telling lack of lobster and Prosecco to be found among the more up scale…
Punk-folk troubadour Frank Turner has announced a headline UK tour for this September. The singer will play a total of 15 dates, starting off in Norwich on 11 September and ending up on 30 September at Oxford. Tickets for all the tour dates go on general sale at 9am this Friday (18 July). As is…
Canadian band Arcade Fire have announced today that they will be releasing a new album next year. Speaking on their Twitter news feed, they said: BREAKING! New Arcade Fire album coming next year, Mercury Records has confirmed. — Arcade Fire tube (@ArcadeFireTube) July 13, 2012 The album will be the follow up to 2010’s critically…
Australian band Tame Impala have revealed more details about their new album Lonersim. As reported earlier this week, Tame Impala announced that they will release their second album this October – the follow up to acclaimed debut Innerspeaker. Today they have released this cover art for Lonerism: The psychedelic rockers have also revealed the tracklisting…
Nolita View EP You may remember a band called Fez from a few years ago, who popped up, sounded promising (particularly their track ‘Lowlight’) and then disappeared again? Well they’re back with a new purpose and a better new name. Now called Nolita View (takien from a song by The National), they are now streaming their…
Night Works – ‘The Eveningtime’ I love it when a new artist just jumps out at me as something a bit different. I’ve not really worked out whether Night Works is any good yet, I just know he has a different approach to making music. I can’t quite get a grip on what’s going on…
Lizzie Nightingale – Tiny Teardops EP If you’re looking for an artist who fits nicely in between the two distinct appeals of Florence and The Machine and Katy B, then I may have just found what you’re after in the shape of Lizzie Nightingale. Her songs are full of Florence-esque sweeping melodies and pure, unashamed…
Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait It’s tricky third album time for the Canadian rockers, and there is a lot riding on the forthcoming ‘The Suburbs’. After the initial critical and commercial success of second album ‘Neon Bible’, it has suffered a recent retrospective downgrading from ‘modern classic’ to ‘decent effort’. Now’s the time,…
Psychedelic Australian rockers Tame Impala have finally announced details of their follow-up to 2010’s amazing debut album Innerspeaker – and released a new track to boot. Listen to ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ here: The new album will be released in October on Modular Recordings and be called Lonerism. As you can hear from ‘Apocalypse Dreams’, the album promises…
It’s been just a week since the newly-reformed Libertines announced two special gigs at London’s Alexandra Palace. Those tickets sold out literally in minutes, so an extra date was hastily arranged. Tickets for that then sold out even quicker, and since then there’s even been talk of a new album. It’s fair to say it’s…
