London-based indie-fuzz revivalists Yuck returned with their second album Glow & Behold last year, following the departure of their frontman. Instead of resting on their laurels, they were straight back in the studio at the end of 2013 and have a new EP ready called ‘Southern Skies’. Today they’ve revealed the second track from the…
If I gave out some kind of award for remix of the week, then this would probably win it for the next month at least. I don’t normally feature remixes per se, as there’s so many of them flying about it would be a full-time job in itself trying to collate them all. I usually…
Black Hippy member Schoolboy Q releases his new album Oxymoron next week (preorder: Oxymoron), which is promising to be an early 2014 hip hop highlight. To further excite you ahead of the album’s release the West Coast rapper has revealed ‘Blind Threats’, which features Raekwon. Listen to the moody ‘Blind Threats’ below:
With his solo album Everyday Robots due out in April, Damon Albarn has been steadily dripping new material out into the public domain. There’s been a live version of ‘Lonely Press Play’ doing the rounds, after the Blur/Gorillaz/lots-of-other-projects frontman debuted it at the Sundance Film Festival, and now there’s a stripped-back acoustic version of the…
This weekend we’ve had not one, not two but three awesome new remixes of Beyonce’s new album highlight ‘Drunk In Love’. First up, Kanye West revealed his reworking of the track on Valentine’s night – his first official new music since Yeezus. Kanye’s remix is allegedly getting its own video as well, which is expected…
My A-Z round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera – ‘Say Something’ Here’s a slow-paced piano-led ballad that is programmed to pull at your heart-strings and certainly feels like the post-Valentines come down. ‘Say Something’ is a song that you really want to…
For some reason today has seen three brilliant cover versions emerge from three of the most exciting new acts around. Scottish electro-pop trio CHVRCHES came out firing with a great cover of Arctic Monkeys’ AM track ‘Do I Wanna Know?‘ during an appearance on Australian radio. Check it out:
Klaxons raised a few eyebrows last week with the big reveal of their pop-tastic ‘comeback’ single ‘There Is No Other Time‘. As revealed last week, Klaxons have been working with a range of different producers for their upcoming third album. ‘There Is No Other Time’ was produced by Radio 1 favourites Gorgon City, and other…
My A-Z round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Single Of The Week Gary Barlow and Elton John – ‘Face to Face’ {rating} Buy it: Face To Face For whatever reason this song has had very little publicity, so little that Amazon and iTunes aren’t listing it as a single…
Doves front-man Jimi Goodwin is gearing up to the release of his first solo album Odludek next month, and has just released a promo video for the albums lead single ‘Oh! Whiskey’. Fittingly for such a calm and reflective song, the video is pretty low-key and features Jimi in contemplative mood overlooking a river.
