Watch: Times New Viking - 'Ever Falling In Love'
The year: 2031.»
The year: 2031.»
Dancer Equired - listen to it NOW.»
Portland indie-rock noisemakers Times New Viking have a triple-deal of news for us this week, all of it firmly in the "good" category. First and biggest news is that they've announced the release of a new record, which is entitled Dancer Equired and comes out on April 25. »
Noisy-but-very-fun trio Times New Viking have a new album lined up for release early next year and they've been working hard on it in the past few months. They've also been touring their arses off, and on these tour dates the band have been selling 7" records containing material which will feature on the new album. You may already have one of these, but perhaps not.»
And so it came to be...the final wave of bands were announced for the Pavement-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. It was met not with a fanfare, but with a polite smattering of applause, mostly from those who had seen it mature to something of relative beauty, but pale in comparison to its younger, more attractive sibling. »
Some people like 'em, some people don't like 'em. I quite like 'em. Regardless of your position on these Portland pop-noiseniks, Times New Viking will be heading (approximately) your way in the next few months. Specifically in late March.»
Watch some crazy man giving away free Ice Creams at various festivals across the USA. Loon.»
This week has been a frustrating one for Spotify users. Playlists have been playing up and Adam from Spotify has been putting on his best radio voice for us all. Everyone loves music though, so here's our fourth gift to you in the form of a playlist - taking in the highlights of the last week in terms of content and the odd board thread...»
The thing about London gigs, is that for the band, they’re f*cking awesome things. For us poor crew, however, it’s a bit more stressful: there’s more to do, seemingly less organisation and definitely more annoying c*nts hanging about.»
Sorry it’s taken a little while to get back to you from Glasgow. Blame Glasgow. Saturday’s show was an Epic Spectacular in the mould of great Art School shows. And given that it all took place at the Glasgow School of Art, that was handy.»
It was the sort of night where you loaded out in double-quick time, wailing Kings of Leon’s ‘Sex on Fire’ very loudly through the corridors, just because it was such a good night.»
Remember we told you about those special Shred Yr Face in-stores taking place across London on October 19th? Here are the full details»
Leeds, as predicted, rocked pretty damn hard. As I type, we are sitting on the bus, all 224 of us (a slight exaggeration, admittedly), readying ourselves for a trip across the Irish Sea to Dublin»
Hello from Liverpool again, where we’ve just finished a night of controlled chaos and fiery finesse. As we ready to roll on towards Leeds, let’s recap on the last 12 hours.»
Hello from Liverpool, where the winds are gusting through with, well, gusto. As we ready ourselves for day 2 and a fitting conclusion to Liverpool’s tenure as the Capital of Culture ’08, let us recap on yesterday’s events.»
Los Camp, TNV and No Age play instores in London on October 19th. Read on for details on how to get wristbands.»
The Tennent's Mutual have announced details and dates of their inaugural live music programme, with music from some of Scotland's leading artists.»
Ohio drone-noise garage trio Times New Viking have had a load of their money nicked, leaving the band having to resort to budget grub and dodgy roadmaps from Tesco»
Half Machine Records will put out a five track 7" in July»
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (pictured) head up a stellar confirmed cast for the eighth annual Siren Music Festival, held on Coney Island, New York»
Insert your own WOW I AM SUPER EXCITED intro here and read on: for the stage times (subject to change, as always) for the forthcoming ATP vs Pitchfork weekender at the festival's original home, Camber Sands Pontins»
Yeah, we know this is up on the Great Escape website already, but for your convenience here it is again - the full plan for who's where and when this year in Brighton»
Columbus kids Times New Viking will be ripping around the UK and Ireland next month, as they fill out a few festival appearances with yet more noise»
The final addition to our Great Escape line-up revealed»
As promised yesterday, here is DrownedinSound’s line-up for this year’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton»
A fair number of fine acts will be crawling across Shoreditch this May, as the Stag and Dagger one-dayer comes to east London for the first time»
We’ve been pining for Primavera Sound ever since they last sent us word of their festival back in February. Where have they been? Why haven’t they called? Sweet relief today, then, as they return with the latest batch of acts lined-up for Barcelona in May»
Matador Records pair Jay Reatard and Times New Viking have been confirmed for the Pitchfork co-curated ATP this May, 9-11»