Listen: Klaxons – ‘Children Of The Sun’

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 collaborators include James Murphy, Erol Alkan and The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands, who worked on ‘Children Of The Sun’. Read more about Listen: Klaxons – ‘Children Of The Sun’

Listen: Klaxons go pop-tastic with new single ‘There Is No Other Time’

It would be a bit of an exaggeration to suggest Klaxons have been sorely missed since their second album Surfing The Void came out a full four years ago. Their re-imagining of 90’s rave-pop culture was starting to wear a bit thin by 2010, but it’s still good news to have them back on the scene.

They have announced today that they will have a new album out in ‘late spring’, and have released brand new single ‘There Is No Other Time’ to ‘pave the way for the albums release’. Read more about Listen: Klaxons go pop-tastic with new single ‘There Is No Other Time’

Love Letters

Listen: Metronomy – ‘Love Letters’

Not too sure what to make of this, as it is a far cry from Metronomy’s usual electro-trickery. ‘Love Letters’ is the title track from Joe Mount’s upcoming new Metronomy album, and its a pretty crazy 70’s-pop track complete with mariachi horns. It’s the second track taken from Love Letters following the lead single ‘I’m […]

Rave Tapes

Album stream: Mogwai – ‘Rave Tapes’

Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai are back with their monstrous new album Rave Tapes next week (released: 21 Jan). Read my 4/5 review of it here. Before that, though, they’ve made the whole thing available to stream online. They premiered the stream over on The Guardian this morning, where Stuart Braithwaite also provided an introduction to […]

Flaming lips

Listen: The Flaming Lips release cover of The Beatles’ ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’

Psych-rock veterans The Flaming Lips have today released a cover version of The Beatles’ classic ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’, which you can stream in full below. The band are gearing up for a New Years Eve gig at Aspen’s ‘Belly Up’ in Colorado tonight, and have apparently promised to perform a few Beatles/John […]

Peace Last Christmas

Watch: Peace – ‘Last Christmas’ (WHAM! cover)

If you’re one of those people who can’t stand Christmas songs then you may want to look away now. Birmingham band Peace have released a cover version of WHAM!’s saccharine sweet Yuletide classic ‘Last Christmas’. The good news is that they haven’t gone for the full Christmas-jumper-and-log-fire approach, preferring a charming live performance video with […]