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…
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…
With their new album So Long, See You Tomorrow out on 3 February, Bombay Bicycle Club are wasting no time in getting their new material ‘out there’. Hot on the heels of impressive lead single ‘Carry Me’ comes the jaunty and very Avalanches-esque ‘It’s Alright Now’, which was just debuted on Huw Stephens’ Radio 1…
If any band can stake a claim for having a stellar year, it’s Arctic Monkeys. They stole the show at Glastonbury and released an album that is featuring towards the top of most peoples ‘albums of the year’ lists. The Sheffield band are planning on rounding off the year with the release of AM track…
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…
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…
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…
