It’s no secret that Damon Albarn has been working on a solo album. He released details earlier this year about him and XL Records’ Richard Russell recording together, but details of the project have been kept under wraps. Today though Albarn released the below video proclaiming ‘DAMON ALBARN FIRST SOLO ALBUM COMING 2014’, which is…
Irish trio Two Door Cinema Club have been announced as the first headliner for next years Latitude Festival. The Suffolk-based festival, which will run over the weekend of the 17-20 July, also announced a bunch of other acts today including Royksopp and Robyn pairing up, HAIM, Billy Bragg, Anna Calvi, Nils Frahm and many more….
Burial has released his new EP a few days early! The EP, which was announced last week, is titled ‘Rival Dealer’ and features three brand new Burial tracks – ‘Rival Dealer’, ‘Hiders’ and ‘Come Down To Us’. To buy the EP, and stream snippets of each track, head over to the Hyperdub site now. The…
We’ve not heard from Manchester legends Doves (formerly Sub-Sub) since their 2009 album Kingdom Of Rust, and to be frank, music has been a lot poorer in their absence. If you’ve been missing Doves over the past few years then today we bring good news as front-man Jimi Goodwin has announced his first solo album…
The world of music streaming is about to get a lot more crowded soon with two potentially huge new services going up against the likes of Spotify and Pandora in early 2014. Beats Electronics have announced today that their Beats Music streaming service – formerly known as ‘Daisy‘ – will be launched in January 2014….
Bombay Bicycle Club revealed a brand new track last month called ‘Carry Me‘, which is taken from their forthcoming fourth album. Now they’ve given the album a name – So Long, See You Tomorrow – a release date – 3 February – and some cool looking cover art inspired by 19th Century photographer Eadweard Muybridge…
Mysterious and hugely popular producer Burial rounded off 2012 with the blogosphere-igniting ‘Truant/Rough Sleeper’ EP, and is set to the same this year with an EP of new material released on 16 December. There’s been no word on the title of the EP, but we do know it will consist of three tracks and be…
Not content with hoovering up TV rights and giving Sky Sports a black eye, BT are now on the move in the music streaming market as well. They’ve confirmed a deal with Universal Music to launch a music streaming service via their TV boxsets, which will also feature a karaoke service (naturally!) Existing BT TV…
BRIT Awards organisers have today revealed the first clutch of information regarding next years glitzy ceremony, which is to be held at London’s O2 Arena on 19 February. Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys and US superstar Katy Perry are the first acts to be confirmed as performers at the ceremony – which will be hosted by…
Rapper/singer Drake is still riding high on the back of his excellent 2013 album Nothing Was The Same, and has promised fans he plans to round off a great year with the free release of new material online. Drake last released raft of new songs on his blog in June, before the release of Nothing…
