Never one to do things by halves, Kanye West unleashed the promo campaign for his new album in style this weekend. He started off by projecting new single ‘New Slaves’ simultaneously on 66 landmark buildings across the globe, before revealing the new album is called Yeezus and will be out on 18 June via Def…
Single Releases – 19 May (Part 2) Part 2 of this week’s new single releases, reviewed by Phil Lickley. Click here for Part 1 Naughty Boy Feat. Sam Smith – ‘La La La’ [rating:3.5/5] The second single from his ‘Hotel Cabana’ album is definitely one of the best songs of the week. With a hooky…
Single Releases – 19 May (Part 1) Part 1 of this week’s batch of hot new single releases, reviewed by Phil Lickley. Crystal Fighters – ‘You & I’ [rating:3.5/5] The third single from their ‘Cave Rave’ album showcases their summery Spanish roots. Fast paced and perky, it manages to sound both free and flowing whilst…
A new track from legendary hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan has emerged online, and is thought to be the first taste of their upcoming new album A Better Tomorrow. The track is called ‘Execution In Autumn’ and is available to stream below: A Better Tomorrow is due out in July, and is intended to commemorate the…
While he may be better known nowadays as a plucky acoustic folk-rock troubadour, Frank Turner’s musical past involves a lot of post-hardcore stuff. Today his new band Mongol Horde have announced a quick-fire self-titled debut album will be released on 26 May via Xtra Mile Recordings (artwork above). The band took their lovely name from the Van…
Production duo Basement Jaxx have today announced they will release their seventh studio album in August. The album is called Junto – which means ‘together’ in Spanish – and will be released on 25 August via Atlantic Jaxx/PIAS. The album will feature recently revealed new single ‘Unicorn’, which you can stream below: ‘Unicorn’ and another…
April was a pretty busy month in music – just a quick read through the music news will tell you that. Kasabian announced their new album, Liam Gallagher sent everyone into a mini-meltdown about a possible Oasis reunion, Glastonbury announced the first raft of acts for this years festival and there was also the small…
Last year’s Trilogy made new RnB/soul type The Weeknd one of the breakout stars of 2012, and now he’s out to build on that rep with quickfire second album Kiss Land. There’s no definite release date for the album yet, but to tide you over the Canadian singer, real name Abel Tesfaye, has unveiled the…
Friendly Fires – Pala You can’t imagine the money men at Friendly Fires’ label having too many sleepless nights over when to release Pala. With summer almost within touching distance, the boys from St. Albans have produced possibly the most unashamedly sunny and joyful album of glossy pop since crimped hair and shoulder pads went…
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories {rating} Buy: Random Access Memories Eight years in the making and the subject of the biggest hype campaign of the century, French electro pioneers Daft Punk’s new album Random Access Memories has a lot of expectations to live up to. The prospect of Daft Punk abandoning the ‘EDM’ scene…
