Fresh from picking up the Award for Innovation at last night’s NME Awards, Damon Albarn has released the studio version of new Everyday Robots track ‘Lonely Press Play’. So far all we’ve had is live and acoustic versions after Albarn debuted the track earlier this month at the Sundance Film Festival and then performed it…
Doves front-man Jimi Goodwin is gearing up to the release of his first solo album Odludek next month, and has just released a promo video for the albums lead single ‘Oh! Whiskey’. Fittingly for such a calm and reflective song, the video is pretty low-key and features Jimi in contemplative mood overlooking a river.
As reported yesterday, details of Damon Albarn’s upcoming solo album were leaked online by his US label Warner Music. Predictably today has seen the Blur/Gorillaz polymath officially reveal all about the album – which is called Everyday Robots and is due for release on 28 April on Parlophone. The album will be preceded by the…
The shamelessly psychedelic Temples are set to make a big impression in 2014. Their eagerly-awaited debut album Sun Structures is out on 22 February and, if previously released tracks ‘Keep In The Dark‘ and ‘Mesmerise’ are anything to go by, it should brighten up the tail-end of winter with lots of gloriously shimmering psych-pop. Today…
‘Instant Crush’, the Julian Casablancas-featuring track from Daft Punk’s all-conquering Random Access Memories, is being released as a single soon, so naturally it’s been given a cool, idiosyncratic video befitting one of the biggest albums of 2013. The video was directed by Warren Fu and was inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’,…
Scottish post-rock experimentalists look set to deliver one of the first big albums of 2014 when they release their eighth studio album Rave Tapes on 20 January. They’ve already impressed us with the well-paced ‘Remurdered’, and have today revealed more of what to expect from the album in the shape of the gloriously psychedelic ‘The…
Production trio Factory Floor have revealed ‘Turn It Up’ will be the next single taken from their self-titled debut album – released in September on DFA. If any track could be described as a typical Factory Floor it’s the album opener ‘Turn It Up’, with it’s house beats blending with post-punk influences. They’ve released a…
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…
