As we keep getting told, the music-industry is in chaos. The illegal file-sharing of leaked albums is hitting the record labels and artists’ bottom line hard – forcing them to come up with more and more creative ways to take control of their output. Some, like Prince, have taken to giving their albums away for…
Nihilistic post-punk noiseniks Savages are preparing to release their much anticipated debut Silence Yourself next week, and have today dropped the full stream of it online for your listening pleasure. Check it out here (the player is a bit fiddly, so be prepared to have to refresh a few times!) Silence Yourself is out on…
Finally, the album is here and we can put all those silly controversies about racism, sexism etc… behind us! Lily Allen certainly knows how to get people talking about her…. The wittily/desperately titled Sheezus is Allen’s first album since 2009’s It’s Not Me, It’s You and features the previously released, and mostly controversy-sparking, singles ‘Hard…
So far all we’ve heard from Gruff Rhys’ new solo album/project American Interior is the ridiculously good title track. Today that all changes as the Welsh legend has revealed a full stream of the album. Listen to American Interior here: The album is just one part of a full-scale multimedia project which includes a film,…
Neon Neon, the synth duo comprising of Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys and producer Boom Bip, surprised everyone with their debut album Stainless Style – managing to actually succeed in making an entertaining concept album about inventor John DoLorean. Now they’re at it again, choosing relatively unknown Italian left-wing activist and publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli as…
Iggy Pop and his fellow punk deities The Stooges are releasing a brand new album next week – and have today released a full stream of it via NPR. The album is called Ready To Die (no relation to a certain rap album of the same name!) and is their first for five years. In…
Legendary alt/grunge rock band Pixies released their first new album in over 20 years for Record Store Day this weekend. Well, I say ‘new album’ but Indie Cindy is actually a collection of the bands last few EPs. It’s still a big deal though, not just because it’s the Pixies but also because it’s very…
There’s been a a lot of mixed messages swirling around over the past few days regarding At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta founders Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López and a supposed new group called Antemasque. The last I heard of the duo, they had fallen out and gone their separate ways – with Cedric starting…
Next week French band Phoenix are releasing Bankrupt! the follow up to their 2009 breakthough album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. But if you’re the type who likes to try before you buy, then iTunes are currently streaming the whole thing in full – which you can get to by clicking this link: Bankrupt! iTunes stream. Read…
Singer-songwriter Sam Beam’s folk-rock alter ego Iron And Wine is releasing new album Ghost On Ghost next week (16 April) – and is streaming the whole thing online via NPR. Listen to it here: Ghost On Ghost is Iron And Wine’s fifth studio album, and lead singles ‘Grace For Saints And Ramblers’ and ‘Lovers’ Revolution’…
