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News: Catfish and the Bottlemen announce further Arena dates
Hot on the heels of their new album The Balance, Catfish and the Bottlemen have bowed to fan pressure (and ticket sales no less) and added a couple of extra Arena dates to their November tour, which sees them hit Scotland with dates at Aberdeen’s P&J Live on Thu 7 November 2019 and Glasgow’s SSE …
Track: Whitney – Giving Up, plus new album news
Chicago-based Whitney will release their sophomore album ‘Forever Turned Around’, on August 30th via Secretly Canadian. On the follow up to their much-beloved debut, 2016’s ‘Light Upon the Lake’, Ehrlich and Kakacek grapple with the anxiety and acceptance that time is limited and navigate questions of mortality, doubt, love, and friendship. Lead single ‘Giving Up’ …
Track: Boy & Bear return with new single ‘Hold Your Nerve’, plus tour news
Boy & Bear set their fanbase abuzz last month after teasing brand new music. Now, the wait is over with the band returning with a triumphant new single, Hold Your Nerve, their first new music since the release of 2015’s Limit of Love. After the most tumultuous period of the band’s lives both personally and …
See: The Snuts reveal video for All Your Friends, plus UK Tour news
The Snuts have today announced a nine date UK tour, kicking off mid-September after festival season, including the band’s biggest show outside of their home of Scotland at London’s Scala on October 22nd. This tour announcement follows the release of their debut single ‘All Your Friends’. They’ve revealed a new video for the track, this …
News: Primal Scream announce major UK and Ireland tour
The thing about Primal Scream is you never know where they might go next. When I first saw them, they hadn’t long released Sonic Flower Groove, but 4 years later they would be at the centre of indie dance, and then industrial, electronic, blues, indie rock. INvesting no recently released compilation ‘Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll …
See: Wand release new video for Thin Air, announce European tour dates.
Taken from their recently released Laughing Matters album which came out in April via Drag City, Wand have released new visuals for the track Thin Air. The notoriously assiduous band, who’ve release an album a year for the last four years and have toured all over the world between times, have also announced new European …
Track: New Order – Sub-Culture (live) plus Manchester live concert album news
Indie legends New Order have announced that their gig from July 2017 that took place in Manchester’s Old Granada Studios (where Joy Division had made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s So It Goes programme) is going to be released on triple vinyl, double cd and download/stream on July 12th, titled ‘∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + …
News: …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead announce Autumn UK shows
Texan alt-rockers …And you will know us by the trail of dead have announced a run of UK shows as part of their European tour, with the band hitting Norwich, Manchester, London, Newcastle and Edinburgh for shows in September / October of this year. It’ll be in support of their new as yet untitled album …
See: Ezra Furman releases new video for ‘Calm Down’, plus new album and live news
Never one to rest upon his laurels, Ezra Furman is back with a new album – Twelve Nudes, out via Bella Union on August 30th, barely 18 months since his critically acclaimed Transangelic Exodus dropped. From the new record, Ezra has released a video for single ‘Calm Down’, and announced a whole raft of live …
See: The Raconteurs release new video for Help Me Stranger, plus World Tour Dates
Supergroup The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, have resurfaced with a new album ‘Help Us Stranger’, out on White’s Third Man Records on June 21st. From it the band have released a new single ‘Help Me Stranger’, and details of their World Tour. The old time blues start is …