The Arcade Fire promotional juggernaut shows no signs of relenting in the run-up to the release of fourth album Reflektor on 28 October. Today the Canadian alt-rockers have released a trailer for album track ‘Afterlife’ – only a few days after the trailer for ‘Awful Sound’. This one is based in Haiti, where Reflektor was…
We’re getting ever closer to the 29 October release date of Reflektor, and just to make sure we don’t forget it Arcade Fire have dribbled out another enticing tidbit to keep us all talking. Last night they released the below trailer on Twitter which previews new album track ‘Awful Sound (Oh Erydice)’: Awful Sound http://t.co/g9DaIkJwAP…
The Canadian alt rockers stake a claim to be the best band in the world with their fantastic third album, The Suburbs. The suburbs – and what they represent – have always been fair game for rock stars. All sorts of images of rebellion and tortured soul histrionics can be conjured up when on the…
After the blockbusting month of album releases that was September, this month’s schedule doesn’t look quite as impressive. Other than Arcade Fire’s potentially huge Reflektor, there’s nothing that immediately catches the eye. Take a closer look though and there’s plenty of interesting albums to get excited about in October. From the return of Sleigh Bells…
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. Arcade Fire feat. David Bowie – ‘Reflektor’ Arcade Fire’s first cut from the album of the same name is a weird affair with many varied elements, thumping bass lines, French and an understated appearance by Mr Bowie himself. Very much like a…
Hot new grunge-rock duo Drenge have joined the current Arcade Fire hysteria by covering the Canadian bands The Suburbs highlight ‘Ready To Start’. The Loveless brothers performed the song on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show last night, and have just uploaded it to YouTube as a canny advert for their upcoming UK tour. Listen to…
With a couple of New Music Roundup’s and plenty of new single streams hitting the web, August has been another great month for new music. I’ve crammed the pick of the new music featured on All-Noise this month into the below playlist, so kick back and enjoy all the best new tunes we’ve been listening…
Unsurprisingly, seeing as the album leaked earlier today, Arcade Fire’s Reflektor is now available to stream online in full. The Canadian band have just made the album available to stream via their official YouTube channel in the form of a full-length lyric video that weirdly features Brazilian dancers – apparently the footage is from a…
The Reading and Leeds weekenders have traditionally been the UK’s premier rock festivals. With the number of summer music festivals increasing recently – and more and more attracting big-name headliners – the rock angle of Reading and Leeds has been accentuated in recent times in order to hang on to its image as the biggest…
Yesterday a Redditor by the name of dirkdiggin asked his/her fellow Redditors to name their top 10 albums of the 2000’s. Today all of the entries have been collated and a definitive list of what r/music subscribers think are the best albums of the 2000’s has been published. There’s no major surprises in the list, with Radiohead, The White…
