After recently featuring in XFM’s New Music Award night at The HMV Ritz, “the Salford lass with the big voice” will release her debut album ‘Through The Night’ on Island Records on 23rd April 2012. The official launch night at Manchester’s Matt & Phred’s on March 7th has already sold out, but she has two […]
One snowy December night at the end of 2010 the then 17 year-old school boy Jack Colleran, aka Mmoths, made two tracks and uploaded them to Soundcloud. Within months the resultant net buzz surrounding his dreamy take on electronica saw him fly to LA for a week of meetings and gigs, remix Interpol and support […]
North London’s finest, Bombay Bicycle Club, have this morning unveiled a beautiful animated video to their new single ‘How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep’, which is released on the 2nd April via Island Records. Created by animator Anna Ginsburg, it has taken six months to build & film and is made even more personal […]
London UK’s dark electronic trio Nedry premiere the first video off of their forthcoming sophomore album In A Dim Light today via Consequence of Sound. In A Dim Light will be released worldwide via Monotreme Records on March 12th, following the March 5th release of “Violaceae” as a single. In anticipation of the album, two […]
Porcelain Raft has released a new video for next single ‘Unless You Speak From Your Heart’, which is to be released on the 20th February in the UK through Secretly Canadian. The video was filmed in New York and directed by Porcelain Raft aka Mauro Remiddi himself. He says of video “Once I went to see an exhibition where inside a […]
Their free album ‘Chariot’, which they recorded in 3 days, has racked up over 150,000 downloads on BandCamp, they got nominated at the Choice Music Awards and their debut single ‘Family’, released on February 20th on School Boy Error/Cooperative Music, has been championed by Zane Lowe (who played it twice in a row on his Radio […]
With the release of her new album, Visions, scheduled for March 12th on Arbutus / 4AD (full album details here), Grimes is heading over to Europe this May for almost a month of touring. Starting at the Simple Things Festival in Bristol on the 6th, she then plays UK headline shows at the Berkeley Suite in Glasgow (7th), Brudenell Social Club in Leeds (8th), XOYO in […]
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny have unveiled a live session recording of their brand new single ‘Sweet Tooth Bird’. Recorded at Lightship95 – a recording studio/boat moored on the Thames – you can now watch a video of the full band session below. With her dazzling debut album, ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose’ picking up […]
Django Django will release their eagerly awaited self-titled debut LP on January 30th through Because Music, with the single ‘Default’ dropping a week prior on the 23rd. The band are pleased to announce a full tor of the UK in support of the releases. Full dates below. David Maclean (drummer and producer), Vincent Neff (singer […]
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