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Engineers have not toured the UK for a very long time. Five years in fact. That is all about to change, however, as they've just announced a handful of dates for late November and early December. All in England, of course. They release a new album soon and have now added the super-duper Ulrich Schnauss to their line-up, a noteworthy addition indeed.»
Abe Vigoda have a new album out now. It's called Crush and came out via Bella Union on Monday, September 20. Our review of that will be running soon, so keep an eye out for it. In the meantime, here's a video for the album's lead single - and free download - 'Crush'. Directed by Vice Cooler, by the way. Do you know that man?»
Organisational proceedings are gradually drawing to a close for the country and continent's festivals which take place in the month of October. Yesterday we have the final batch of bands being announced for Cardiff's SWN festival and today it's the turn of Manchester's In The City festival, which has some pretty stellar names joining its already fantastic line-up.»
Last year - or this year depending on a few factors - the supergroup made up of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, Zola Jesus and Freddy Ruppert - released their debut album Fleurs. It came out to a warm critical reception. They've now announced that they are to release their next album on November 8. It'll come out through Upset The Rhythm and is called New Love. »
You might remember Buddyhead for some of the finest pieces of music writing in the early '00s as well as some of the funniest wind-ups not just in the '00s but, well, of all time. There was, and still is, a record label associated with it all and that's how we perhaps belatedly discovered Dios, who were formerly Dios (Malos), for your information.»
The final set of bands and artists have been announced for the Huw Stephens co-curated SWN Festival, which takes place in Cardiff next month. Some of them are more well-known than others, but what it will mean is that there is once more a massively varied event over in Wales. Which is good.»
Los Angeles noisy-duo No Age release their new LP very soon indeed. It's called Everything In Between and comes out through that indie label of much repute, Sub Pop. You can also now stream it over at The Guardian. We did toy with stealing the code and posting it ourselves but that would have been against the spirit of internet exclusives, wouldn't it?»
M.I.A needs a bit of credit here - she certainly deserves it. Her new video for 'Story To Be Told' very much carries on the theme of ancient computer displays going fucking crazy. Although it doesn't quite have the artistic sophistication of that one where all the ginger kids were running away, only to be cruelly blown to pieces of rusty dust, it does something. I'm not sure I can describe what it is. »
Some tour dates, ennit.»
Following on from the few November shows which were announced a little while ago, Jack Tatum and Wild Nothing have confirmed what we all hoped in a few more dates. It's all proper now, with a full-on European jaunt, as well as a seven-date UK leg, including a show at the NME Weekender at Camber Sands.»
There have been some astonishing things to come out of Norway, but perhaps none as astonishing as Serena-Maneesh bassist Hilma Nikolaisen, who tonight – and presumably at every show – appears to stand at about seven feet tall, at a conservative estimate, and slides around aimlessly and effortlessly from the front of the stage to the back, from one side to the other as though loosely attached to a set of infinite rails. I may have mentioned this before, but it is genuinely mesmerising. »
New Sleigh Bells video.»
Multi-talented musical maestro Andrew Bird is to release another album this year. I say another and not "new" because it isn't strictly true - as it has already been released, as part of the deluxe edition of last year's album Noble Beast (via Pitchfork).»
Last week iLiKETRAiNS previewed and premiered their new video for 'A Father's Son' on popular music website and magazine, The Fly. You may have already seen it. Perhaps not, though, which is why we're running it here today. Anyway, yeah, you can watch it »
A couple of weeks ago we informed you about Marnie Stern's forthcoming UK tour, which had just been announced. There were a couple of dates missing, we told you, London dates would be available in 2 weeks or so, we were told. We also said we'd tell you when they arrived. And now they are here.»
Win a pair of tickets and a record, digitally.»
Download and that.»
Popular pop-rock musicians and famous experimentalists Radiohead have finished recording another batch of songs for their forthcoming full-length, which will be the follow-up to 2007's price-varying In Rainbows (via NME.com).»
Jack Tatum and Wild Nothing have undeniably released one of the records of the year - certainly one of the debuts of the year - in Gemini, which came out a couple of months ago. Its bleakness transposed against its hope is one major factor of the appeal, but above all the songs are pretty decent, too. So we don't really need much of an excuse to go posting about them again. Here we go.»
Fleet Foxes have informally announced that they've finished recording their next record, the follow-up to 2008's debut self-titled effort, which managed to make it into the Top 3 of the UK album charts (via The Guardian and Pitchfork.»
A world exclusive first play. It's a goodun.»
An interesting idea.»
Following on from the super special shows we announced this week as part of our 10th Birthday Celebrations (more details about that below), we've got another equally special show for you in a couple of weeks.»
With December fast approaching, all those that are attending the previously pretty beefy Bowlie 2 weekender, curated by Belle and Sebastian, have been waiting for updates. Now there are more! So, without any further fucking around, the acts added to the B»
Swedish indie-pop stars The Concretes have announced a UK tour for early December, supporting their forthcoming album. That record is called WYWH and comes out in November. T»
Following on from the infamous meat dress earlier in the week (jokes about meat purses here) Lady GaGa gets on her Gee Gee about the service of of homosexuals in the US military. Fair play to her. We were going to do this as a "Friday Feeling/Friday Fun" but it's not really "fun" as such. Perhaps something more like Friday Freedom. Yeah! »
Video premier of the new Codes In The Clouds video.»
It's time for another one! This time featuring the likes of Weezer, Gold Panda, Simon Joyner, Bright Eyes, Swans, Lykke Li AND Owen Pallett. »
With the good will of some of the finest minds in the business behind them, and a few quite-good singles, the equally quite-good Veronica Falls have confirmed a few dates for the UK in November, many of them with another band - Cloud Nothings.»
You surely know the deal with ATP's In Between Days thing by now. You can sort of work it out from the title, but for those who don't I shall explain. The time in the middle of the first ATP (Bowlie 2) in December ending and the second one (Godspeed) starting there will be events of a musical variety, put on for anyone who wants to stay at Butlins, Minehead. »
