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Watch: Foals - 'This Orient'
Watch it!»
Watch: Tartufi - 'Church Of Hanging Leaders'
You may remember that Tartufi's Nests Of Waves And Wire cropped up in our 'Lost 9 of '09' feature that we ran last year, thoroughly assessed by our album reviews editor Andrzej Lukowski. Good news fans of expansive, sometimes euphoric and generally pretty DARK music! They are to return this year with a whole new record, entitled The Goodwill Of The Scar, but more about that later.»
Somerset House announce Summer Series headliners
London's lovely setting of Somerset House have announced the first lot of headliners for their Summer Series, which takes place over the course of 10 or so days in July this year. It's not as good as last year, in all honesty, but still worth a quick gander, like.»
Listen: New Stone Temple Pilots track, 'Between The Lines'
But is it any good?!»
Listen: MGMT stream new record on their website
Annoyed that their new record, Congratulations has been leaked, MGMT have decided to combat this problem by streaming the whole thing on their website. So head over there to listen to it and, if you fancy, tell us what you think below. We'll be giving it a little listen after dinner. »
Watch: We Have Band - 'Divisive'
We Have Video.»
Gorillaz announce two London dates
People always seem ask the question 'what are 8Gorillaz* like live? Y'know, how does it all work? Does it all work?'. If you aren't 'in the know', you'll now have the chance to find out if you can get yourself down to the capital, as the erm, sketchy characters have announced a couple of shows in the city.»
Listen: Shoes & Socks Off covers EP download ft. songs by Nirvana, Pixies, Eels
We all love free music, that much is taken as read. Covers? Well, they tend to be, quite often, below par. But the times they work it almost makes all the badness worthwhile. What our friends and irregular columnists for us at Big Scary Monsters are giving away is a WHOLE EP of covers, by Shoes & Socks Off a.k.a. Tobias Hayes.»
Watch: Ben Folds does ChatRoulette piano improv, live!
Right, I'll keep this quick because it's a Sunday and I'm off to watch the football down the pub imminently. You should be aware of ChatRoulette by now. You should also be aware of the viral piano-improve video that has been floating around for the past w»
Alex Chilton tribute concert to go ahead at SXSW, read tributes
Big Star's SXSW show on Saturday will go on, it seems, following the death of Alex Chilton. Band members Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer and Jody Stephen's will perform in Austin as part of a tribute show to Chilton, who died earlier this week of a suspected Heart Attack.»
Graham Coxon wants America cleared like an overgrown field, slates The Guardian
Graham Coxon has said that there is a part of him, however small, that wants to see America's 'global dominance' reduced to nothingness, and that it's his fantasy to see the country to 'start again', being cleared 'like an overgrown field' (via NME.com).»
Watch: Arctic Monkeys - 'My Propeller'
Those Arctic Monkeys release a new single from their current LP, Humbug, in 'My Propeller'. There's also a video for it, directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern. The single will be released on March 22, and is another Oxfam related one, in that the charity will be selling the 10" version of the single exclusively in their 148 shops across the country.»
Listen: Download Quack Quack - 'D Motherf^cker D'
Awful name, good song. »
Spotifriday #38 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
The 38th weekly instalment in our content-related Spotify playlist, featuring Big Star, White Stripes, Jonna Lee, Broken Bells, Shy Child, White Hinterland and MANY MORE. »
Watch: Lykke Li - 'Possibility'
Earlier in the week we found out that the iamamiwhoami videos were NOT Lykke Li, but you knew this already. No great disappointment for fans of the Swedish popstrel, especially given that she's now aired a video for 'Possibility', taken from the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack from last year.»
Festival News Round-Up #4
OK, not going to bother arsing about with an introduction this time round. Here's what's happening in the festival world, or rather, what has happened in the last week or so. De-tail.»
YouTube launches indie music partner channel, artists to get more $$$
You may be vaguely aware that some YouTube videos aren't embeddable on external sites, like ours, or indeed on many blogs...»
Watch: CocoRosie teaser clip for Grey Oceans
Last month we brought to you the new CocoRosie album cover and general details. It was, we decided, one of the biggest abominations in the history of album art, ever, in concept and execution. A lot of you probably agreed. If, for some reason, you want to»
Watch and Listen: High Places - 'The Longest Shadows' + free mp3
Yo! Too informal? Well 'hello' then. Right, Brooklyn duo Roy Barber and Mary Pearson, who make up High Places have their second full-length record on the way in a few weeks, the follow-up to 2008's eponymous one. This time it's called High Places vs. Mankind and will see the light of day on April 5 through Thrill Jockey.»
Smashing Pumpkins free song project sees first EP release
Smashing Pumpkins may not have quite entered the common vernacular as a compliment on a certain pair of body parts but they've probably been forgotten by many. Not to panic, though, remember they were/are releasing 44 individual songs for free over a prolonged time period? Called Teargarden by Kaleidyscope or something.»
R.I.P Alex Chilton 1950-2010
Alex Chilton, singer for The Box Tops and most famously Big Star, has died aged 59 in New Orleans of a suspected heart attack. He was due to perform with Big Star at SXSW in Austin on Saturday. »
Jack White works with Jay-Z on 'incredible' track
He of the White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, Jack White, has revealed that he's working with Jay-Z on new material, or rather has worked with Jay-Z, as it's already happened. »
Indie love songs as posters...
So, we were going to save this for Friday, but seeing as today is turning out to be a bit of a slow news day (Pipettes album release date confirmed, anyone?) we'll stick them up for you now...»
Loud & Quiet celebrate five years, release compilation
It's not often that we sing the praises of other publications here, aside from stealing all of our news from Pitchfork, that is. Not because we don't want to, but mainly because it'd be a bit...weird...to do it all the time. »
Watch: Hot Chip - 'I Feel Better'
What with the speed this thing has been flying around the internet, you've quite probably seen it already. Even if you have, it's worth another watch, surely? The song may not be all that and a pint of finest ale, but the video is approaching something close to that. »
St. Vincent working with David Byrne
Encouraging news, collaboration fans. St. Vincent or Annie Clark OR St. Vincent's Annie Clark is working with David Byrne, as revealed by the man himself in his latest blog post, entitled 'Collaborations' (via Pitchfork).»
iamamiwhoami...isit Jonna Lee?
So far we've resisted doing any 'news' on the frustratingly secretive iamamiwhoami viral campaign, mainly because, well, it's all been a load of hot air and people saying "OMG ITS XTINA" or "OMG ITS LYKKE LI". Which it most probably isn't. But now our interest has been piqued by reading that some are certain they know whoitis.»