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…
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…
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…
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…
Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr has revealed he is releasing a new solo EP on his bandmate Julian Casablanca’s record label Cult Records. The five-track EP, simply titled ‘AHJ’, will be released on 8 October and features the very striking artwork above. In preparation of the EP’s release, Cult Records have released a stream of…
Tame Impala’s Lonerism highlight ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards‘ is one of those very rare songs that already feels like a timeless classic – so naturally it has attracted quite a lot of remixes and reworkings over the past few months. Some of the remixes have been quite good, but this new one from…
Nottingham singer-songwriter Jake Bugg has announced the follow-up to his 2012 debut album will be called Shangri La and will be released on 18 November. The album is named after Rick Rubin’s studio in Malibu where it was recorded, and is preceded by the rocking new single ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ – the video for…
Poor old Arcade Fire. They’ve spent weeks plotting a guerilla marketing campaign to build up to the release of their brand new single, ‘Reflektor’, and now, just a day before their grand unveiling, the song has leaked online. The single is the first track to be taken from Arcade Fire’s upcoming album, also called ‘Reflektor’,…
With her long-awaited fourth album Matangi scheduled for a 5 November release, MIA has slowly been dripping out new material in characteristically odd and wonderful ways. A snippet of her new single ‘Come Walk With Me’ was unleashed onto the internet last week, and now the full version is available via a new Tumblr page:…
Arctic Monkeys aired a new track from their upcoming album AM on XFM last night. Called ‘I Want It All’, it’s a bit more of a classic riff-led rock song than the previous slinky and suggestive releases ‘Do I Wanna Know?‘, ‘Why Do You Only Call Me When You’re High?’ and ‘Stop The World I…
