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Ever wondered what it's like to be on the road with most marvellous purveyors of deep and vast sounds Efterklang? What do you mean you haven't?! Regardless you're now going to get a little taster, in musical form. »
If the first lot of artists announced for this year's Great Escape wasn't enough to get you in the mood for a jolly old jaunt down to the seaside, then the next batch should hopefully tempt you a little bit more.»
The initial batch of headliners for this year's 2010 Latitude Festival has been announced and...it's pretty good all in all. Headlining the Obelisk Arena, which is the main stage, over the course of three days will be Florence + The Machine, Belle & Sebastian and Vampire Weekend. Just marginally underneath those three on the bill for that stage are Empire Of The Sun, The Maccabees and fast-fingered duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela.»
I have to say my feeling towards We Are Scientists was undeniably lukewarm until a few years ago, when they happened to be interviewing a whole wonderful selection of the good and great from the music industry at the NME Awards, raising at least a chuckle each time. It then rocketed up. »
Yo-ho! Not much more to say here than "point your mouse down there and click", for there's an album preview of Flying Lotus's new one, Cosmogramma, in the form of the track 'Computer Face//Pure Being'. Listen to it first, then look below for more album details, should you be so intrigued/excited/flabbergasted by what enters your eardrums.»
Last week we told you about the imminent Band Of Horses record Infinite Arms, which was then without a record label. This is now not the case, as it'll be released through various different sources - Brown Records, Fat Possum and Columbia - on May 18ish. »
We don't want to overload you with video content. Fair enough. But we probably will, especially when there's a video by Nedry in the mix. We'd be sorely neglecting our responsibilities if we didn't. »
And it gurns, gurns gurns...»
Bird's eye view.»
Those esteemed broadcasters at BBC Two will be showing the high and low charting Blur documentary, No Distance Left To Run later this week. It'll be shown on Sunday March 14 and 22.50, but will obviously be on iPlayer for a week or so, as well as probably repeated at a later date.»
Rest in peace.»
OK, OK, so we didn't actually bring you a Friday Feeling last week, but think of this as a slightly-more-than-token-gesture towards replacing it. Think of it as a Monday lunchtime perk-up or something.»
He of husky voice and a hundred thousand collaborations, Mark Lanegan has just announced a full European tour, spanning 22 dates and just under a month. There will be a decent proportion of them in this country, and a couple in Ireland as well.»
A little while ago Kendalites Wild Beasts went over to America to play a few shows and that. You can watch some of the action here in their US tour diary. We also just stumbled upon a whole live session filmed and recorded at LA's KCRW, right at the beginning of their US jaunt. Well worth a watch. Do so below. »
New stuff ahoy. »
Late last month we reported that US act Gang Gang Dance asked Florence + The Machine for royalties, due to the absolutely ridiculous similarities between the GGD song 'House Jam' and Flo's 'Rabbit Heart'. They got them. It sounded like Florence had completely ripped them off, in all honesty, something they obviously weren't best pleased with. »
Ulster act Two Door Cinema Club released their debut record, Tourist History, on Monday. We reviewed it here. We've got a clip of them performing 'This Is The Life', taken from that very album, live, in session.»
Simon Green, alis Bonobo will returns with a new full-length LP through Ninja Tune on March 29, entitled Black Sands Before that, though there's a single out on Monday - 'Eyesdown'. Even before that, though, we have an exclusive 11-minute mix of the very best bits of the album, also available for download. A taster, if you will. Aperitif. »
Drip-by-drip the new information emerges about The National's new record, the follow-up to 2007's astounding Boxer. Earlier in the year they told us it'd be out in May on 4AD, but now the release date and title have been revealed, along with a website for the record.»
It's time for another edition of the content-mangled-into-the-form-of-a-playlist that we amusingly dubbed 'Spotifriday'. We hope you enjoy it. It features the BEST sounds from this week's Singles, News, Reviews, and even a couple of tracks, as per usual, from the ever brilliant and increasingly popular armchair dancefloor column.»
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. »
Right, we'll be incredibly swift with this one because a)time is running out and b) we want to be. The deal is this, we've got two pairs of tickets to give away to Ed Banger's 7th Birthday Party, as well as two pairs of invites for Uffie's new album listening party type-thingamy. Obviously these two things will both be together. »
Just a matter of days after James Murphy announced that work had finished on the new LCD Soundsystem record, the news comes in that the record has been confirmed, with tracklisting, and release date, though there is STILL no name. Grumble, grumble. »
Another instalment of line-up additions, in essence.»
Recently legendary producer/musician/all-round genius Brian Eno was unveiled as the guest artistic director for the Brighton Festival this year, and now some of his 'programme' for the event has also been unveiled. Good news.»
Brian Burton a.k.a Danger Mouse's super collaboration project Dark Night Of The Soul may actual get an official release through EMI, the Mouse Himself revealed. T»
A whole lot of music. »
The Nordic nations, it seems, are disproportionately wealthy – both in actual, financial terms as well as in musical terms. A tota»
Jaguar Love, whose splendid 2008 record Take Me To The Sea received a 9/10 from us, return at the end of next month with a new album, entitled Hologram Jams, released on Fat Possum Records.»
I never know whether or not to adopt the French pronunciation of 'Formidable' when talking about London-based but very much Welsh three-piece The Joy Formidable. What do you think? Sounds better as Fronch non? Enough of this irrelevance.»
