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Jimmy Fallon gets all the good guys and girls playing his chat show. He must feel pretty good about it. I mean, take a selection from the past year or so and it's a thousand times better than what goes onto Jools Holland's programme, the last episode included. Well done to him. »
SURELY this Wave Pictures tour was announced weeks ago? Apparently not, much to my surprise. Still, good news, as they've now added dates in England, Scotland AND Wales to go along with various other festival appearances. Ten of them in total, which shoul»
A slightly more curtailed Festival News round-up this week mainly because a) an awful lot has already been announced, this limiting the prospects of space for further announcements and b) some of these festivals have already happened. »
More bad news for independent music bloggers as Google have shut down yet another one, this time the Scotland-focused The Pop Cop. As you can see by clicking on the link, it is no longer, nothing remains. »
SoundCloud really is brilliant, isn't it? More from the innovators of audio and musical streaming themselves later in the day, but first news that Fair Ohs have uploaded a couple of new tracks to there and, in turn, to their Tumblr. It's a neatly designed website, so visit it if not for the music, then the VISUALS. »
Leeds's (yes, AGAIN) Pulled Apart By Horses are one of the finest live spectacles in the land. But still, I'm certain you agree that it's high time they put out a proper record, right? Well good, because that's what they're doing with a self-titled debut, which is released on June 21 through Transgressive. Stoked.»
DiS favourites Mount Kimbie - they very recently played our stage at Brighton's Great Escape - have confirmed that they will release their debut full-length record, which is titled Crooks and Lovers. That'll be released on Hotflush in July. »
Better late than never. Us, not them. »
It's not every week we do a chart round-up on a Monday morning. In fact the last one was probably about 18 months or so ago. Rarely is there a time when the charts are so relevant to us. »
A free download from their forthcoming EP. »
Mmmm. Sensational indie-pop four-piece The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart's 2009 debut record was truly a thing of brilliance. Blown away. Since its release we (and many others) have been excited AS HELL about any new material from them, including their upcoming second LP. »
What do you know about Norway other than the price of beer is around three times the annual GDP of Togo? Well, it's cold in the winter, but the people are warm all year round. That it won last year's Eurovision Song Contest. Harald Hardrada and all that. »
SCREAM for the soundtrack for the new Twilight film (yes, another one, it's a massive franchise, don't you know?) has been announced and, as ever, it features a long list of hip, cool and fashionable stars from around the indie world of music. The new film is Twilight: Eclipse, just in case you were wondering. Tracklisting for the OST is below:»
Icelandic neo-classical prodigy Ólafur Arnalds released his second proper full-length record, ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness... on Monday. It's genuinely worthy of all the praise it gets. We (I) reviewed it here.»
Swedish husband and wife duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums are steadily increasing their back catalogue, what with the release of three new EPs this year, the sum of which will make their new album, and the follow-up to 2009's The Snake. The first of these was the Retina EP, which we reviewed here.»
This year's Glade Festival, scheduled to take place from 15-18 July, has been cancelled, the festival's official website has confirmed. The reason, it states, is an increasing imposition of restrictions on the festival. »
Our favourite freaky three-piece Au Revoir Simone will release a remix album of last year's Still Night, Still Light, with reworkings from Neon Indian, Jens Lekman, Dam Mantle, Montag, Deradoorian and many, many others. The date of release is July 5 and will be via Moshi Moshi on the usual formats, CD album and the ever-present tautology of 'digital download'.»
We previously said it's been a big week for The National. Now it turns out it's a big week for The National Trust, as Jarvis Cocker (who is also having a pretty good week) is releasing a record with the institution. The album is a soundtrack and collection of sounds and general noise from various National Trust sites around the country. »
So, erm, some people have commented on some of the new Band of Horses tracks since a couple of tracks were made available, a video, and a performance on Later...With Jools Holland. Some of the comments were disparaging, one comparing them to Snow Patrol, presumably latter period. »
National fever. Their third full-length record, High Violet, came out Monday. We very much liked it. Yesterday they announced a new UK tour for November taking in the delights of Bristol, Warwick, Manchester, Glasgow and, of course, the capital city that is London.»
We should really be used to M.I.A doing things her own way by now, but then again it's always nice to get a surprise in one form or another from her, I guess. There's a bit of triple-barrelled news this time as the previously unnamed album now has a name,»
Oxford-based Stornoway release their debut album on May 24 through 4AD. That's called Beachcombers Windowsill and will feature the lead single 'Zorbing', as well as ten other hopefully wonderous tracks of musical brilliance. »
Condemned digital radio station BBC 6Music has something to smile about at last as they picked up two awards at last night's Sony Radio Awards in London. The also cursed Asian Network additionally managed to win an award. Hooray for all that.»
It seems today is quite the time to be announcing Autumn tours of this island as, following on from The National's recent confirmation, Brooklyn three-piece Yeasayer have released a set of dates for later this year. »
Not content with selling out the Royal Albert Hall in not-very-much-time-at-all, Ohio's The National have announced another tour of this island, this time taking place in November. »
Although Blur's recent return to recording was filed under "good not great" the prospect of the band continuing to do similar things in the future was probably the best thing to come out of it. Unless you managed to get your paws on one of the official 7"s through Record Store Day.»
It wouldn't feel right not writing something about Joanna Newsom every now and then, just like it wouldn't feel right not reading something about Lady Gaga every few days/hours/minutes. Now the two have been neatly combined as the High Priestess of Harp 'went off on one' in a recent interview with The Guardian.»
Whilst the news that Ratatat were to release a new album very soon indeed and a free download from the album was available didn't escape us, the fact they released a video for that very track did. It may have been something to do with an election hangover or the nominal concept of a weekend.»
Some time not too long ago, in a reality not too detached from this current one, Rage Against The Machine were caught up in a whirlwind campaign to try and get their track 'Killing In The Name' to Christmas Number 1. In the UK charts. To beat Joe McElderry to it, with whatever he released. It was kind of like the current campaign to get Nick Clegg to try and form a coalition with the Labour party. »
