My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. AFI – ‘I Hope You Suffer’ The charmingly titled ‘I Hope You Suffer’ from AFI is a slow, lumbering, atmospheric track covering the well-trodden path of romantic breakdown. Resisting the temptation to go too screamo, the tempo gives it a sense of…
Primal Scream – More Light {rating} Buy: More Light Even though they’ve loomed large over British guitar music ever since I can remember being aware of ‘British guitar music’, I’ve never really ‘got’ Primal Scream. I never understood the big fuss about Screamadelica, and the rest of their 90’s output all felt a bit too…
Primal Scream have come up with a novel way to stream their new album More Light. Instead of the boring old ‘here’s a stream’ approach, they’ve decided to make the now traditional album stream promotional device a bit more of an event – revealing a quarter of the album to stream at a time. The…
So far there has been 21 winners of the Mercury Prize, or Mercury Music Prize as it was once called. It’s now officially called the Barclaycard Music Prize for sponsorship reasons, but we’ll stick with Mercury Prize from here on in, I think. Since it began all the way back in 1992 the Mercury Prize…
This week’s single releases – 14 April Reviews of all of this week’s top singles from Phil Lickley. The Brand New Heavies feat. N’Dea Davenport – ‘Sunlight’ [rating:3.5/5] Very much nailing an audio sandscape of the song’s title, ‘Sunlight’ sounds like the cousin of many a summer chill-out tune matched with Jamiroquai and, at times,…
XFM have gone all out this year with the line-up for their Winter Wonderland shows in December. The radio station will be putting two events on in December at Manchester’s O2 Apollo (10 December) and the O2 Academy in Brixton (12 December). On the stage in Manchester will be Jake Bugg, Primal Scream, The 1975,…
As reported last month, Primal Scream are releasing their tenth studio album More Light in May – and today we got the premiere of lead single ‘2013’ as well as the below promo video: More Light is due out on 6 May and features guest appearances from the likes of Robert Plant and My Bloody…
Northern Irish producer David Holmes has revealed that Primal Scream’s new album, their tenth studio album, will be called More Light and is set for a May release. Writing on his Facebook page, Holmes said: the new primal scream album is sequenced and mastered…its called “more light” and will be released in may…one love! X…
The Noel Gallagher-curated line-up for the 2013 series of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs has been announced today – with a few surprises mixed in with some more obvious acts. The most surprising inclusion on the line-up is Noel’s former Blur ‘enemies’ Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon, who will be playing on the same night as…
Top 10 gigs in June Summer is almost here, which means festival season will soon be upon us – so there’s plenty of good live music going on as bands hone their shows before hitting the festivals. Here’s my pick of the best gigs to go to in June: The Charlatans – Friday 1st June…
