Electro-duo Simian Mobile Disco have revealed they will release their first ever live album on 15 April. The live album has been given the radically original title Live, and was recorded at a gig in Philadelphia last year – and will feature no post-production or editing. That’s the cover for it above, and the full…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced three live dates in the UK in support of their upcoming new album Mosquito. As well as dates in Manchester and Leeds, the New Yorkers will also play the ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror festival in London, which they are co-curating with Grizzly Bear. Yeah Yeah Yeahs UK tour dates:…
The rumours going around over the past few months have been all about whether the Rolling Stones and Daft Punk would be playing this years Coachella festival. Turns out those rumours were wrong, but worry not – the line-up that was announced today is amazing! Highlights of the line-up – which will play two weekends…
It’s been quite the day for new album announcements. As well as Depeche Mode and Neon Neon revealing details about their new LP’s, The Flaming Lips have got in on the act, announcing their 13th studio album The Terror. The Terror will be released on 1 April (what’s the odds on it all being an…
Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys’ electro-pop side project Neon Neon have announced their second album will be called Praxis Makes Perfect and will be released on 29 April. Like their 2008 debut Stainless Steel, which was about the life of car designer John DeLorean, Praxis Makes Perfect is a concept album based on the life…
As reported yesterday, The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez has started a new band called Bosnian Rainbows – which hasn’t gone down well with his bandmate Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who effectively terminated his working relationship with Omar last night in a series of increasingly bitter Tweets. Cedric said: Thank u 2 all Volta fans you…
Rumours have been swirling around for a while about a new Depeche Mode album being imminent, and today the synth-pop legends have finally provided some concrete information. Cue lots of information: The album, the bands 13th, will be called Delta Machine and will be released worldwide on 26 March. It is Depeche Mode’s first album…
Hot new singer-songwriter Tom Odell has announced his much-anticipated debut album, Long Way Down, will be released on 15 April. Speaking of the album, the singer said: I hope the album feels human and real and that there are some flaws – because the flaws help make it what it is. Really, I’d love to…
Just for the fun of seeing Jake Bugg sing about Clifton and White Lightning to a probably very bemused US audience, this is worth a watch: Bugg was performing on Conan O’Brien’s talkshow as he continues the promotional tour of his self-titled debut album – which has helped garner him a Brit Awards nomination.
As you would expect, when Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced their new album Mosquito earlier this week it created a lot of excitement. Rather than all the talk being about the return of one of the best bands of the past decade, though, all the attention was on the mental artwork – a neon image depicting…
