A new non-profit festival called Chazzstock will take place for the first time this summer in Leicestershire and feature The Horrors and The Vaccines as headliners. Chazzstock will take place over the weekend of 9 and 10 of June and was set up to honour the late musician Charles Haddon, who passed away in 2010….
The Horrors’ keyboardist Tom Cowan has announced that the band are close to finishing their fourth album – the follow-up to 2011’s unbelievably good ‘Skying’. Speaking to NME about the recording sessions for the as-yet-untitled album, Cowan said: It’s going really well, we’re most of the way there in terms of getting the songs together. And…
Last month The Horrors finally announced their fourth album Luminous, and revealed it will be out on 6 May through XL Recordings. They followed up the announcement with the release of the excellent lead single ‘I See You‘, which seemed like a massive statement from the band as they look to take the next logical…
The Horrors have today released the, erm, colourful video for ‘Changing The Rain’ – the next single to be taken from their awesome, award winning album Skying. Check out the psychedelic promo below and let us know what you think in the comments at the bottom. As well as the cool video, which was directed…
Number one in our run down of the top albums of 2011 unsurprisingly goes to The Horrors, for their rich, textured and nuanced third album Skying. After a spot of label trouble the Southend band decided to go it on their own and produced Skying themselves – a decision which led to them making an album…
Is there no better way to while away one’s free moments; minutes so furiously wrenched away from the boring rigmarole of everyday life; than putting on pairs of shades and shorts and heading on down to a summer festival. Baking sun, guitar twangs percolating through the breeze, and a frosty pint of lager; we wouldn’t…
When I was at Glastonbury last year, the choice between Friday night headliners fell between Arctic Monkeys, Nile Rodgers & Chic and The Horrors. While the vast majority of the Glastonbury crowd opted to either witness Alex Turner’s emergence as a bona fide rock star on the Pyramid Stage, or Nile Rodgers’ canonization as the…
Southend goth-rockers The Horrors have been teasing us with snippets about their upcoming album for what feels like an eternity, but today they’ve hit us with some actual news. Their fourth album, the follow-up to majestic 2011 album Skying, will be called Luminous and released via XL on 5 May. Here’s the cool cover art:
First things first: Happy New Year! Now that’s out the way, let’s get stuck into the serious business of looking forward to what 2014 has in store for us all. After a pretty impressive 2013 for big albums – Bowie, My Bloody Valentine, Daft Punk, Jay Z, Kanye, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Beyonce to name…
The Horrors have announced a huge box set edition of their awesome third album Skying. The box set of singles will consist of four 12 inch vinyls, two CD’s and a DVD, and will feature the remixing talents of Andrew Weatherhall, Connan Mockasin, Daniel Avery and Blanck Mass amongst others (scroll to the bottom for…
