The Killers are releasing their greatest hits collection Direct Hits next week, just in time to pick up some nice Christmas sales. As is customary with a greatest hits album, they are including a couple of new songs within the ‘hits’. We’ve already heard their M83 collaboration ‘Shot At The Night’, and today they’ve revealed…
It’s been a good year for Glasgow electro-pop trio CHVRCHES, who well and truly delivered on their early promise with one of the biggest debut albums of 2013. ‘Lies’ is one of the many highlights of The Bones Of What You Believe, and now it’s been given its own stylish video – which riffs on…
As reported last month, Broken Bells aka producer Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer, are releasing their second album After The Disco in January. So far we’ve had a futuristic-looking album trailer and the first part of a short film featuring music from the album, and today they have revealed the first full track…
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Arthur Beatrice – ‘Grand Union’ ‘Grand Union’ is a slow moving indie number that is as gentle and rolling as you could imagine from a softly spoken male singer trying to do a lower key version of Everything Everything or ALT-J. It’s…
It’s a brave band to take on the late Whitney Houston’s back catalogue, but Glasgow electro-pop trio are riding high at the minute and have turned their synthy talents to Houston’s ‘It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay’. CHVRCHES performed the cover on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show earlier this week, and it’s now available to…
Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr has revealed he is releasing a new solo EP on his bandmate Julian Casablanca’s record label Cult Records. The five-track EP, simply titled ‘AHJ’, will be released on 8 October and features the very striking artwork above. In preparation of the EP’s release, Cult Records have released a stream of…
Tame Impala’s Lonerism highlight ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards‘ is one of those very rare songs that already feels like a timeless classic – so naturally it has attracted quite a lot of remixes and reworkings over the past few months. Some of the remixes have been quite good, but this new one from…
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…
