With their self-titled second album due out in January, Warpaint were in the BBC Maida Vale studio earlier in the week talking to Steve Lamacq and performing a few tracks. As well as the new albums lead track ‘Love Is To Die‘ the band played ‘Composure’ from their first album and debuted the brand new…
Queens Of The Stone Age have made a special three-track EP available to stream via Spotify. Recorded during their show at the Cologne Kulturkirche Köln on September 4, ‘…Like Clockwork’ features stripped back versions of ‘Long Slow Goodbye’ (taken from their 2005 album Lullabies To Paralyze, ‘Vampyre Of Time And Memory’ and ‘I Sat By…
Things are starting to move in the world of U2 – who are expected to return next spring with a new album. Before that, they have a song included on the soundtrack for upcoming Nelson Mandela biopic ‘Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom’. The track, called ‘Ordinary Love’, is set to be released on 29 November…
You may remember superstar duo Broken Bells released Part One of a short film to promote new album After The Disco last month – starring Kate Mara and Anton Yelchin as a couple of sci-fi star-crossed lovers. Today they have revealed the follow-up video for the album’s lead single ‘Holding On For Life’, which picks…
Arcade Fire aren’t doing anything by halves as they continue to push new album Reflektor down our throats, and have today revealed another video for album track ‘Afterlife’. To be fair though, the new video is pretty impressive. Directed by Emily Kai Bock it’s a stylish and powerful exploration of people’s dreams and inner psyche….
Everyone is making interactive videos these days, and today Bob Dylan joined the party with a video for his almost 50 year old classic ‘Like A Rolling Stone’. Typically for Dylan, his effort – made in conjunction with Interlude – pretty much destroys the competition and provides a new benchmark for innovative interactive videos. The…
I don’t quite know why but it’s somehow comforting to know that Beady Eye are still out there bobbing along, touring and releasing singles. The next release from their Dave Sitek-produced second album BE is a double-A side of ‘Soul Love’ and ‘Iz Rite’, which is out on 25 November. Today the band have released…
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Bastille – ‘Of The Night’ From the freshly released deluxe edition of their debut album, ‘Of Their Night’ starts off as a dark version of the dance classic ‘Rhythm Is A Dancer’, one of my personal favourites of all time growing up as…
Katy B’s promising sounding new album Little Red is due out early next year, and judging by the calibre of the songs we’ve heard so far – ‘5am‘, ‘What Love Is Made Of‘ and ‘I Like You’, it looks set to be an early 2014 hit. All of the songs released so far have a…
In the not-too-distant future the year 2013 is destined to be referred to as the year that heralded the great ‘funk disco’ revival. If any one man is responsible for that it’s Nile Rodgers (followed pretty closely by Pharrell), thanks to his work on Daft Punk’s very funky and very disco-y Random Access Memories and…
