MIA can always be relied upon to throw out interesting visuals, and with her on such a high at the minute thanks to brilliant new album Matangi you just know a new video is going to be special. Today she revealed the video for Matangi track ‘Y.A.L.A.’, which was made in association with French fashion…
Timbaland is undergoing something of a renaissance in recent times, thanks mostly to him making up with Jay Z and working on Jigga’s recent Magna Carta Holy Grail album. Today the producer has released a new track from his upcoming Textbook Timbo album which not only features Jay Z but also ropes in Drake for…
Forget Sinead O’Connor’s open letters, Lily Allen has delivered the best indictment on the music industry’s obsession with body image – via the trusty medium of sarcasm. With no build up or buzz campaign (not including that Christmas advert she’s on, of course), Allen released the gloriously acerbic ‘Hard Out Here’ today slamming female pop…
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. AlunaGeorge – ‘Best Be Believing’ (EP) Backed up with a selection of remixes, the title track of the ‘Best Be Believing’ EP, AlunaGeorge’s fifth single, is a bit more tangible than their previous hits, and Aluna’s distinctive voice is still a stand…
Deltron 3030 – the futuristic hip-hop triumvirate of Del The Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automator and Kid Koala – have released a video for the Zack De La Rocha featuring ‘Melding Of The Minds’, one of the many highlights from their recent second album Event II. The video, directed by Justin Ian Lee, is an…
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…
