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’…
The Flaming Lips are releasing their new album The Terror next week – and have today released a full stream of it via NPR. Front-man Wayne Coyne has been describing The Terror as a much darker album than their previous work – basing the record in the darker realms of psychedlia. Listen to The Terror…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released a stream of their highly anticipated new album Mosquito onto YouTube. The stream features an intro by Karen O in which she calls the album ‘…a Yeah Yeah Yeahs soul record, or our version of one. It’s really playful and tongue in cheek at times. It’s got something for everyone.’…
The Dead Betties took seven years to release a new single but it was worth the wait. The new single titled “The Way We Live Now” is one of the most amazing singles that you will listen this year. It is leading single in their forthcoming self-titled album. The name of this title single came…
So much for 2013 being the year for new bands – so far the biggest albums of the year have come from the old school. Bowie and Suede have led the way, and now it’s the legendary Depeche Mode’s turn to stake their claim for 2013 domination with their thirteenth studio album ‘Delta Machine’. The…
