The (almost) full line-up for this years Glastonbury Festival has been revealed this morning – confirming Kasabian as headliner alongside Arcade Fire as well as announcing another 80 or so names to the bill. The only surprise is that the third headliner is still not confirmed – with the line-up including a ‘Special Guests’ in…
With his second album Overgrown just days away, James Blake has released a video for the previously released track ‘Voyeur’. The video has been made in conjunction with Blake’s own label 1-800 Dinosaur and was animated by Ferry Gouw. Watch it below: Overgrown is out on 8 April via Atlas/Republic.
Up and coming Glasgow band Chvrches have released a pretty cool promo video for their Recover EP track ‘Now Is Not The Time’. The clip is a nice take on the ‘performance video’ format, with the band playing the track in the centre of a roller disco. Watch it here:
Ghostpoet’s new single ‘Meltdown’, the first to be taken from his upcoming second album Some Say I So I Say Light, has been reworked by Squarepusher. The remix sees Squarepusher embracing the quiet intensity of Ghostpoet while adding some subtle electro flourishes to it. Check it out: Some Say I So I Say Light is…
My favourite New York based Wall of Sounders A Place To Bury Strangers have announced they will be releasing their third studio album Worship in June. The album, out on the Dead Oceans label, will be out on 11 June and will be preceded by a six-date UK tour (full dates are below). The bands…
When you’re done reminiscing about last month with my cool March playlist, you can start looking forward to the best LPs getting a release in April. Last month saw big new releases from the likes of Pharrell Williams, Elbow, Rick Ross, Eagulls and Johnny Cash amongst many others. So what albums are we looking forward…
Kicking off with Tame Impala’s dreamy cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger In Moscow‘ and finishing off with promising new band Sundara Karma, the below playlist is full of cracking new tunes from the month of March. In between those tracks is a brand new track from The Orwells, De La Soul’s Dilla-produced ‘Vocabulary Spills’, a…
This week’s single releases – 31 March Phil Lickley takes us through another batch of new single releases. Alison Moyet – ‘When I Was Your Girl’ [rating:3.5/5] Buy: When I Was Your Girl The first release from Moyet’s eighth album is much poppier than I’d expect from the classically trained singer. Sounding very much like…
Leicester band Weekend Schemers launched their brand new single ‘Little Too Late’ with a characteristically blistering set at Leicester’s legendary venue, The Shed.
Anyone releasing big news today should really preface it with some kind of ‘non-April Fools joke’ guarantee. In amongst all the ‘hilarious’ news stories about fake Glasto headliners etc… today came some proper big news about Jack White. The former White Stripe today announced he will release his second solo album on 9 June through…
