August 2010
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Archive - Controlling Crowds - Out 20th September
ARCHIVE ANNOUNCE FIRST UK ALBUM RELEASE
DOUBLE ALBUM RELEASE – CONTROLLING CROWDS PARTS I– IV
RELEASE DATE – 20th September
LABEL – Hangman Records
Visit http://controllingcrowds.com for more information
Archive’s rise in Europe has been nothing short of monumental. Now, with ‘Controlling Crowds’, the band finally make their first excursion onto their homeland of the UK. Already established...
July 2010
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The Black Seeds and the Easy Star All Stars Live...
August 8th - keep the date free as New Zealand reggae-soul heavy weights The Black Seeds have announced a one-off London show at The HMV Forum with the legendary Easy Star All Stars! For this special one-off double header, The Black Seeds are joined by the one and only Easy Star All Stars, the masterminds behind three of the best-selling reggae albums of the last decade – Dub Side...
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Nick B Byrne releases debut single ‘Anna’ on the...
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Valleys based, Welsh singer songwriter Nick B Byrne releases his debut single ‘Anna’ through Itunes on the 9th of August. It’s taken from his forthcoming debut album ‘4:15AM’ released through Dragonffli Records and available through digital outlets (Itunes) on the 13th of September.
Byrne’s new...
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Spring Offensive Giveaway A Pre-Release Of Their ...
Dynamic indie-rock quintet Spring Offensive are giving away their latest release exclusively to fans who attend their live shows, before it’s free public release on the 1st of September. The fourteen-minute track, entitled ‘The First Of Many Dreams About Monsters’ is broken into five individual (yet still connected) songs, each embodying a different section of The Grief Cycle. The sections are...
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Barn On The Farm Festival Announces Line Up
Brand new Gloucester festival Barn On The Farm launches this week, and its folk-filled lineup is sure to offer the kind of ramshackle hoedown to be remembered and talked about for a long time to come. The festival will be taking place in the grounds of Over Farm in Gloucester next month from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th July. This ultra-intimate festival is limited to just 200 tickets, and...
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Brooke Sharkey EP Release Party on the River...
Brooke Sharkey, an exceptional singer, guitarist and songwriter, is having her EP launch party on the 22nd of July on a boat sailing down the River Thames.
Still only 22 but with a young life already dedicated to music, she already has the assured stage presence of an inspiring act. Bilingual, she sings as captivatingly in French as she does in English and can create an extraordinary magic...
Metallica take on Beatles and Van Halen in...
Three of the biggest names in music history are going head to head in the Music Game Of The Year category in the world’s biggest video games awards event, the Golden Joystick Awards.
The multi million selling heavy metal titans are gunning for the prestigious award with their ‘Guitar Hero: Metallica’ title and will face stiff competition from the hugely popular ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ and ‘Guitar...
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I Am Arrows - Green Grass
I Am Arrows (Andy Burrows) premiers his brilliant new video for Green Grass.
The debut single by I Am Arrows, the new incarnation of former Razorlight man Andy Burrows, will be released on Vertigo on August 9th. Green Grass is the first single to be taken from Burrows’ debut solo album as I Am Arrows, Sun Comes Up Again, itself set for release on August 16th , and its release will be...
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Larsen B debut album Musketeer out July 5th
Larsen B are named after an Antarctic ice shelf, though the band’s sound couldn’t be further away from the cold image it conjures. Hailing from Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire (though calling it by the doomsday book recorded ‘Watamestede’) Will Baguley, Simon Palmer and Paddy Smith formed Larsen B with the intention of weaving glorious and well crafted pop songs for the world to hear.
They have put...
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Folk & Tumble Club Night Launches
Folk & Tumble (www.folkandtumble.com) – an exciting new club night brought to you by independent label Dustbowl Records – launches this July in Norwich, at brand new venue Knowhere Bar. The night aims to showcase the best upcoming folk, folk rock, acoustic and alternative talent from across the UK.
The line-up for the first Folk & Tumble night is as follows:
COCOS LOVERS –...
Clash Magazine & new social music forum, mflow -...
Want to discover some fresh sounds and artists with the help of a host of music lovers? Then mflow is the only social forum you’ll want to become a part of.
A cross between Twitter, iTunes and pub chats with your mates about your favourite bands, mflow even pays you for recommending music to others. If you ‘flow’ any tracks to your followers, and they buy it, YOU get 20% of sale credits. That...
June 2010
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FLYING LOTUS: 3 very different London dates //...
Flying Lotus returns to London for the first time since the triumphant release of space opera Cosmogramma with three very different live shows in a week. To open, the legendary Brainfeeder club night returns to its spiritual home Hearn St Car Park and gives Flying Lotus another chance to curate a line-up of future-bass leading lights for your listening and dancing pleasure. To close...
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Adelaide's Cape announces full band tour starting...
Adelaide’s Cape is heading out on tour again next week, this time with a full band behind him to do a series of headline shows across the South of England and Wales. If you’re not already familiar with Adelaide’s Cape - aka multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Taylor - the name is one you’ll be hearing much more of as 2010 progresses. He was recently selected by BBC...
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Bluba Lu presents the new album 'Quadrotopia'
Bluba Lu are well and truly back with with their latest musical offering - ‘Quadrotopia’, and they have spoilt us as well with not 1 but 2 CD’s!
Famous for their dramatic and moody strings, use of exquisite vocals and lyrics that transport you to a better place, this new album does not disappoint. CD 1 features the original tracks from Bluba Lu and CD 2 features remixes from none...
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These Furrows - Without Manner
Having formed and grown within the affluent yet understated Leicester music scene – an environment that has bred the likes of Kyte and Maybeshewill – These Furrows take on everything from post-hardcore to post-rock to post-punk in a dizzying melee of sound. Such genres are about the only terms you can come close with to defining a sound that is undeniably their own and unequivocally unique.
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The Revellions 'Sigh's released on the 05 July...
THE REVELLIONS : SIGH’S : 05 JULY 2010
Forged amidst a haze of frustration and neon lights in the early days of 2006 The Revellions (www.myspace.com/therevellions) have spent the last two years playing to sell out crowds across Europe. Hailing from Dublin they charge ruthlessly through the Psychedelia of the 60’s, the Punk energy of 77 and the amped up Garage of the 80’s beating it all...
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Detroit Starrzz - Halo
Underground electro sensation Colin Waterson and Soul II Soul/Shamen diva Victoria Wilson-James front hot new London super group, Detroit Starrzz. The collective of artists, producers and remixers, which include Patrick Ruane and Andrew Galea from chart-topping dance duo The Nightstylers and cool remixer-of-the-moment Rachel Ellektra are set to launch their unique brand of break-pop with the dark...
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The Fanclub - Madman/Bitter Boys and Graceless...
The Fanclub are due to release their new single, ‘Madman’, on 12th July, alongside bonus track ‘Bitter Boys and Graceless Girls’.
Centred around the soaring vocal of Josh Todd and Lewis Tobia’s somber songwriting style, the two songs are a perfect introduction to their romantic world.
Following a creative meeting of minds between the band and producer Greg Haver (Manic Street Preachers,...
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You are invited so Tell Your Mum, Bolan's Back!
Chips for the Poor have grappled the one armed bandit drum machine and bounced their bread boxes off weekends suppin diesel leaks and home made margaritas to vom up the spring/summer/autumn/winter hits of 2010… **Tell Your Mum, Bolan’s Back!** Thursday 3rd June is the date for your diary, blackberry, iphone, hand, door or wall.@ The Stag’s Head, 55 Orsman Road, Hoxton, N1.
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IRVINE debut video "The Chase" now also available...
South African Indie Rockers IRVINE have made their new single “The Chase” available as a Free MP3 from their website www.irvineband.com.
The band’s debut video for the song has been very well recieved so far, and can be found on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDKkhrCNdws
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The Shills release Sweet Inertia EP & video!
The Shills released their new ‘Sweet Inertia’ EP on CD & Itunes download on Monday 17th May through R*E*P*E*A*T records. The Shills formed around childhood friends Ed Bateson, Dickon Collinson, Rob D’Ath, and brothers Olly and Tom Yates in Cambridge. In 2008 they released their debut single, ‘Raison d’être’, with independent Cambridge label, R*E*P*E*A*T records. Shortly after its release,...
May 2010
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ALLFLAWS - ESCAPING SANITY video
ALLFLAWS - ESCAPING SANITY (video) Bristol, UK (Derelict State) May, 2010 Bristol’s underground entity AllFlaws has released a new music video for the single Escaping Sanity. A deep sonic sound scape of metallic beats, brooding electronics laced with edgy and evocative vocals. This interesting merger of influences could be aptly described as a form of post industrial rap or a more sinister...
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Dananananaykroyd to play low key gigs as Sissy...
The Glasgow-based posi-core proto-rock six-piece will return to live ears next week with three super low-key shows around the UK. Having spent the past six months holed up in Scotland writing songs for their as yet unnamed second album, the band hit London, Cardiff and Manchester to play the material, before performing at a few select festivals and recording the long player. Singer Calum Gunn...
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The Good Gods! Announce New Single
‘Lying On Our Bright Red Backs’ is the new single from scrubbed up indie-popsters The Good Gods! The song sets the tone for summer Saturday afternoons. The gentle drum beat builds to a crescendo of infectious guitar hooks, a catchy as hell bassline and Tom Hatreds quirkily brilliant and instantly recognisable vocals “Will I ever get to see the sunshine? Or will I forever burn my back? an elegant...
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Hear new Klaxons single here
The Klaxons are back. Having spent 3 years away from the spotlight that followed the success of their debut album Myths Of The Near Future, the techno-popsters return with a fresh genre-obliterating musical creation.
Produced in LA by US rock legend Ross Robinson (Sepultura, Slipknot, At the Drive In, The Cure), it’s would be an understatement to say that the second long player from the...
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Wanna win the one & only Gibson SG Relentless...
Fondled by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Angus Young, Tony Iommi and Dave Grohl no less, the Gibson Guitar’s SG is already an icon in rock’s sonic history. But the source of some of the world’s most colossal riffs has evolved with a new twist: Gibson Guitars and Relentless Energy have put their collective creative brains together to create the SG Relentless – maintaining that warm, rich tone that...
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Pleasure Mob - Where's My Money!
“WHERE’S MY MONEY” IS AVAILABLE FROM THE 21ST JUNE 2010 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YES IT’S ME, PETER DICKSON OFF YOUR TELLY BOX, TAKING TIME OUT FROM MY HECTIC GLAMOROUS SCHEDULE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT A BAND CALLED PLEASURE MOB. THEY ARE ASKING A QUESTION THAT’S ON EVERYBODY LIPS, A QUESTION THAT SOCIETY HAS BEEN ASKING SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. SPIRITUAL LEADERS, PROPHETS AND SCIENTISTS...
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GYPSY & THE CAT - 'TIME TO WANDER'
GYPSY & THE CAT RELEASE THE SINGLE ‘TIME TO WANDER’ ON 21ST JUNE “Early slice of summer’ The Times “Very easy to listen to on repeat” Popjustice Australian duo Gypsy & the Cat will release their debut single ‘Time to Wander’ through Young and Lost on 21st June. ‘Time to Wander’ is a lush and fresh song that combines contemporary...
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AUTOLUX: New Album Transit Transit
AUTOLUX Transit Transit (ATP Recordings, August 2nd, 2010) LP/CD/Digital We’re very excited to announce the much-anticipated release of Transit Transit, by Autolux. This enigmatic, Los Angeles-based trio whose debut, Future Perfect, was released to critical acclaim in 2004, has continued to captivate fans anxious for the evolution of their unique sonic aesthetic. Autolux’s sophomore album,...
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School Of Seven Bells: new album, free mp3 + UK...
School of Seven Bells return with their second album, ‘Disconnect from Desire’ on 12th July through Full Time Hobby.
Download free album track ‘Babelonia’ here
July sees a run of UK lives dates, including a headline show at London’s Scala and an appearance at Latitude festival. Full details are below.
School of Seven Bells majestic debut ‘Alpinisms’ was released to huge acclaim ...