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Partially bearded-slayers and writers of American Civil War post-punk anthems, Titus Andronicus have announced a UK tour for later this year, in November to be precise. I have not yet seen them live, but I'd well imagine it's the sort of thing that is wel»
Once-but-perhaps-now-no-longer tropical punks Abe Vigoda release their new album on September 20, through Bella Union. It's called Crush and is available to stream NOW, thanks to the people that run the Bella Union SoundCloud account. Have a listen to it all below, like, see if it's as good as their last one. Fingers crossed!»
Oh Johnny Foreigner, where you been of late? What have you been up to? It seems like a great deal, actually, as the Birmingham trio have just (well, a few days ago) signed to a new record label, and along with it announced the release of a new EP, their first proper release since Grace And The Bigger Picture - their second full-length record.»
Back in the middle of August, the German piano maverick who goes by the performing name of Hauschka revealed details about his forthcoming full-length album, which is called Foreign Landscapes and comes out through FatCat. More details about it in the linked article there.»
This year's edition of OX4 - brought to you by the people of TRUCK festival - is getting bigger and, dare I say it, better. Yes, I dare say it. There has just been another delivery of bands added to the line-up for the Oxford-based event, now in its second year.»
We often go on about how good the music "coming out" of the City of Leeds actually is. Makes sense to have a festival or two, there then, and not just the big ol' Leeds Festival, y'know, smaller ones, like Constellations, which is running for the first ever time this year. »
One of the very best UK independent record labels in Tough Love are releasing a label sampler for the year 2010. I know it's September, but this is probably so they can acquire enough of the musics to actually put on it, ennit?»
A few mp3s from a few of our favourite artists.»
New Gold Panda video. Foliage.»
The wonderful Cumbrian quartet Wild Beasts will be releasing a remix 12" of their Mercury Prize nominated album Two Dancers with remixes from some of the brightest names around. It'll come out on Domino on November 8 as a double 12" and will also be available through digital means, as ever.»
More goodies to win. »
Yesterday (or was it the day before?!) we gave you a free remix of Sky Larkin's 'Still Windmills' and today we our extending our hand of generosity even further in offering a whole bunch of tickets for the upcoming Katie, Nestor and Doug show, aka the Sky Larkin UK Tour Autumn 2010.»
This week I've arranged the playlist in alphabetical order. I will argue with those of you who think that The xx shouldn't be filed under "X" but will probably lose because I have not known tiredness like this since about yesterday. As such, the descripti»
Islet are a fairly hard-to-pin down bunch. That's partly because they fairly eschewed normal social media methods of promotion and secondly because they like to swap around their instruments when playing live. I mean, can you even call yourself a bassist »
Free track from Violens' summer mixtape. »
Caitlin Rose released her debut record at the end of last month, entitled Own Side Now. It's very good, as we wrote in our review. Well done to her. We also ran a track-by-track run-down, written by the woman herself. Now we've got the first look at the v»
The new Darren Hayman single, taken from his forthcoming record, The Essex Arms.»
Way back in June we told you that MF DOOM was to release a live album. That album is set for release on September 14 in the US, but you can get your hands on a free mp3 download from that record, called Expektoration, which features Big Ben Klingon. »
Ooh, we loved Sky Larkin's new record, Kaleide. Especially the lead single 'Still Windmills'. Now, however, we have a reworking of that very track for you to download. It's by DREAMTRAK and is a proper remix. Proper as in it's been disassembled and then reassembled with only the bare bones remaining and proper as in proper good, like.»
New video from Lonely Galaxy.»
el Guincho releases his next full-length record next Monday, September 13 through Young Turks. Will it be as good as the previous one? Only time will tell. Or will it? Well, perhaps, but that time is now much nearer as the record is streaming in its entir»
As we told you a few weeks ago, Orange Juice are releasing a box set of pretty much their entire back catalogue, with a few extra bits thrown in, obviously. OJ frontman Edwyn Collins is also in the process of releasing a record himself. It's called Losing»
The ever-impressive New Yorker Marnie Stern, not content with filling a place in our countdown of favourite records with In Advance Of The Broken Arm, the queen of shred has just announced a UK tour for November.»
Yet more bands have been announced for 2010's In The City festival in Manchester and the list is getting better as well as bigger.»
We've been keeping tabs on Gold Panda for a while now - even more so after seeing him live at one of our shows last year. Impressive. So we were quite pleased when he announced the release of his debut record, Lucky Shiner, a few weeks ago. That was originally due to come out in October, but for various reasons which you can probably work out, the record is out now, digitally.»
Probably worth getting your hands on this one. Congrats.»
VVVideo.»
Some seriously good shit here.»
Er, it's OK, I guess.»
