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See: Last Shadow Puppets release video for Bad Habits, announce June live dates
There’s two ways of looking at it I suppose. Either that the waits nearly over, or alternatively the anticipations almost at boiling point. It’s those Last Shadow Puppets, ostensively Alex Turner and Miles Kane, and there second album that’s causing all the talk. Turns out ‘Everything you’ve come to expect’ is coming out on April …
News: Rosie Lowe announces debut album ‘Control’ & UK tour
Rosie Lowe is the latest what seems like an never ending production line of talented English singer/songwriters and on a wave of massive media hype she releases her debut album Control on February 19. The Devon-born musician co-produced the album with Dave Okumu, and her smart songwriting shows exactly why artists like Little Simz, The Invisible, Kwabs, Ady …
News: PJ Harvey to release new album, watch trailer
Journeys seems to be the thing that has inspired PJ Harvey to write her new album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, which comes out April 15th through Island Records. Recording for her ninth album took place at Somerset House, where, during her resisdency there, members of the public could view what was going on through …
News: Smiths legend Mike Joyce pledges signed vinyl to record fair to help flooded record store
The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce has donated some very rare signed vinyl to a special record fair that will help save Muse Music who lost their stock after floodwater ripped through Hebden Bridge on Boxing Day. Mike’s signed records form a unique retrospective of Britain’s greatest indie band that is just one of the star …
News, Sonic Youth 180g vinyl reissues
USM are embarking on a re-issue programme of some of Sonic Youth’s key albums as part of its ‘Back to Black’ series, all to be available for the first time on 180g vinyl, and with high quality downloads. First up, later this this month, (January 22nd) are ‘Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’, ‘A …
News: Fun Lovin Criminals release 20th anniversary of Come Find Yourself, plus UK tour dates
Has it really been 20 years since those New York scamps the Fun Lovin Criminals, aka Huey Morgan, Brian ‘Fast’ Leiser and Frank Benbini released ‘Come Find Yourself’? Well, judging by the fact they’re about to release a 20th anniversary collectors edition, through Edsel/Demon on February 19th, then yes. Available as a 3cd edition, the …
News: Joanna Newsom announces new live dates
American singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom has added a load of new dates to her already much acclaimed tour. In a recent press release, her label, Drag City, proclaimed: With greater velocity than a meteorite-straddlin’ Kris Kringle, Joanna Newsom keeps dropping gifts on a grateful world-pop! While she’s in the midst of her first USA tour in …
News: Fatherson announce headline UK Tour – February 2016
Following the release of their latest indie-rock hit, Fatherson have just announced a headline tour for early next year; a 13 date excursion across Scotland, England and Wales. The trio plan to start their adventure in Dundee, before heading out to Edinburgh, Birmingham, and London; finishing the tour in Newcastle at Cluny 2. If you’re looking for …
Track: Nada Surf – Believe You’re Mine, plus new album news
March 4th next year will see the first album from Nada Surf as an expanded four piece, with Doug Gillard joining the trio of singer/guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot. Titled ‘You know who you are’, it’s their first since 2012, and went through some revisions, originally being scheduled for January. …
News: The Coral to release new album and announce UK tour in 2016 – watch teaser
After a five year hiatus, Liverpool’s The Coral return with a new album, a tour and a new member. Their eighth album, Distance Inbetween, is out on March 4th via Ignition Records. The follow up to 2010’s Butterfly House, it was recorded in Liverpools Parr Street Studios with co-producer Richard Turvey, where the band worked …