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Nottingham singer-songwriter Jake Bugg has announced the follow-up to his 2012 debut album will be called Shangri La and will be released on 18 November. The album is named after Rick Rubin’s studio in Malibu where it was recorded, and is preceded by the rocking new single ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ – the video for […]
Kanye West hasn’t done too much publicity work for his latest album Yeezus, especially not in this country, but he’s turning up a notch this week. He performed three tracks on last nights full Later… With Jools Holland show – watch ‘Bound 2’, ‘New Slaves’ and ‘Blood On The Leaves’ below: Next week, Zane Lowe […]
The media circus that is Arcade Fire’s publicity campaign for new album Reflektor has been leading us up to a 9pm reveal of the albums lead single and title track. But with the internet always doing its best to derail well-thought out music PR stunts, the Canadian band have decided enough is enough and have […]
Poor old Arcade Fire. They’ve spent weeks plotting a guerilla marketing campaign to build up to the release of their brand new single, ‘Reflektor’, and now, just a day before their grand unveiling, the song has leaked online. The single is the first track to be taken from Arcade Fire’s upcoming album, also called ‘Reflektor’, […]
Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller are back! The abrasive electro-rock duo, better known as Sleigh Bells, have today announced details of their third studio album Bitter Rivals – the follow-up to the all-conquering Reign Of Terror. Bitter Rivals is out on 8 October and is available to preorder now on Sleigh Bells’ site: bitterrivals.us The […]
With her long-awaited fourth album Matangi scheduled for a 5 November release, MIA has slowly been dripping out new material in characteristically odd and wonderful ways. A snippet of her new single ‘Come Walk With Me’ was unleashed onto the internet last week, and now the full version is available via a new Tumblr page: […]
Arctic Monkeys aired a new track from their upcoming album AM on XFM last night. Called ‘I Want It All’, it’s a bit more of a classic riff-led rock song than the previous slinky and suggestive releases ‘Do I Wanna Know?‘, ‘Why Do You Only Call Me When You’re High?’ and ‘Stop The World I […]
If this is the calibre of songs that didn’t make the cut for AM, then Arctic Monkeys’ new album should be a bit awesome. ‘Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You’ is the B-side for their equally saucily-titled new single ‘Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?’, and it’s a slinky, low […]
As befitting a track that features both Jay Z and Justin Timberlake, ‘Holy Grail’ – taken from Jigga’s recent Magna Carta Holy Grail album – has been given a very slick and expensive looking promo video. The atmospheric video dives straight into the dark and twisted heart of fame, riches and opulence, and was debut […]
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Bastille – ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’ Download:Things We Lost in the Fire Single number six from Bastille lands firmly in the ballad territory telling an emotive story of lost memories over a retro-sounding keyboard riff and the band’s familiar vocal […]