The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet [rating:4.5/5] Buy Noctourniquet To many At The Drive-In fans (me included) The Mars Volta have always been the sideshow to the main event. Past albums have seen Cedric and Omar unleash their proggy and indulgent sides away from the restraints and pressures of the massively popular post-hardcore of At The…
Regular readers may remember I featured up and coming singer Chloe Howl’s ‘Rumour EP’ in my latest new music roundup, and today she has released the next video from it. Each of the EP’s four tracks is set to get a full promo video, and today is the turn of the very catchy ‘No Strings’….
Last month Ghostpoet released new track ‘MSI MUSMID’ and announced a new album will be out soon – with the tongue-twisting title Some Say I So I Say Light. Today the London-born singer/producer has revealed a bit more about the album – his follow-up to 2010’s Mercury-nominated debut Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholy Jam. The new…
Yep, Bez as in the slightly mental, loon-faced backing dancer of Madchester legends The Happy Mondays has announced he wants to run in the General Election next year to become MP of Salford. Bez, 49, revealed his plans to the Manchester Evening News ahead of his appearance at an anti-fracking rally this weekend. The dancer…
Friendly Fires have been a bit quiet since the release of their very good second album Pala in 2011. Today they’re back with a bang though, revealing the first track they have recorded with production duo The Asphodells. The Asphodells, in case you were wondering, are Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay, and their loop-based…
If you have a passing interest in music and occasionally go online, you will have noticed that the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas is underway. Yesterday saw high profile sets from the likes of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Earl Sweatshirt and Jake Bugg – but Yeah Yeah Yeahs made sure they grabbed the…
Tame Impala are soon to be hitting these shores for a quick tour, which will see them supporting Arctic Monkeys in those awesome looking Finsbury Park shows. To whet our collective appetites for their particular brand of psych-rock, the Aussie band have today released a fantastic cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger In Moscow’. At first…
So yeah, that ‘Chasing The Sun’ announcement from a couple of weeks ago was a bit underwhelming – but today we’ve found out there’s more to this whole 20th anniversary thing than just a bunch of reissues. ‘Chasing The Sun: Oasis 1993 – 1997’ is a free exhibition running from 11-22 April at Londonnewcastle Project Space…
In what could either be a masterstroke or a terrible, terrible idea, Disney have revealed they have commissioned an album of EDM remixes of classic songs from their extensive back-catalogue of films. The album is called ‘Dconstructed’ and will feature contributions from notable EDM stars like Aviici, Armin Van Buuren, Kaskade and Sebastien Ingrosso. Intriguingly…
Miles Kane has today revealed his second solo album will be called Don’t Forget Who You Are. The album was produced by former Lightning Seeds man Ian Broudie, with Miles’ hero Paul Weller also involved in the recording. Talking about the follow-up to his debut solo album Colour Of The Trap, the former Rascals and…
