December playlist

December playlist – all the best new music from December 2013

December is traditionally a quiet month, so I was surprised at the amount of quality new music showing up in my Soundcloud ‘Likes’ as I put this playlist together. From the return of Doves’ Jimi Goodwin to brand new Drake, Warpaint, Sam Smith and Broken Bells – December has provided us with some great new […]

Latitude 2014

Latitude 2014 line-up – Two Door Cinema Club to headline

Irish trio Two Door Cinema Club have been announced as the first headliner for next years Latitude Festival. The Suffolk-based festival, which will run over the weekend of the 17-20 July, also announced a bunch of other acts today including Royksopp and Robyn pairing up, HAIM, Billy Bragg, Anna Calvi, Nils Frahm and many more. […]

Apollo

Playlist: All the best new music from October

So here we are at the end of October, a month that has given us darker evenings and the Great UK Storm of 2013! It’s not been all bad though, as the month has also given us a great batch of new music to get stuck into. The below playlist collates all this awesome new […]

Days Are Gone album

Album stream: HAIM – ‘Days Are Gone’

Thanks to a steady stream of singles, videos and festival shows over the past year or so it feels like LA siblings HAIM have been around for ages. In actual fact, they haven’t even released their debut album yet. That’s all about to change next week when the long-awaited LP – Days Are Gone – […]

V Festival

V Festival line-up rumours – Beyonce and Kings Of Leon heavily tipped

UPDATE – the line up has just been announced, click here. Tomorrow night V Festival organisers will release the full line up for this years festival. If you’re one of the many thousands who have already registered and are waiting on the line up before forking out for a ticket, I’m guessing you’re going to […]

HAIM Falling

Listen: HAIM – ‘Falling’

After winning the BBC’s Sound of 2013 poll and appearing towards the top of most peoples ‘ones to watch’ lists, Californian sister trio HAIM are getting ready to take over this year. Their first shot across the bows of 2013 comes in the form of the pop-tastic ‘Falling’ – which will be released as part […]

Haim - BBC Sound of 2013

Haim announced as BBC Sound of 2013 winners…

They may look a bit like 1990’s Mmmboppers Hanson and sound like a watered down version of Fleetwood Mac, but according to the trend-setting wisdom of that bastion of coolness and finger-on-the-pulse relevance – the BBC – Haim are the most promising new music act of 2013. The LA sisters were today announced as the […]