There Will Be Fireworks are the latest band to well up from the fertile Scottish plains, and we suspect, come the end of 2009, they’re going to be near the top of that ragged heap, if not at the very top...
Chris Eaton, RPC's main man, gives us the low down on the inspiration and creative ideas behind the tracks from their latest album.
TLOBF chats to Future of the Left's frontman and guitarist Andy Falkous about the band's new album among other things...
Mike Copus sits down for an intimate chat with metal titans Mastodon. Taking in their obsession with 'legendary beasts' and the huge success of current album 'Crack The Skye'.
One of the most talented composers and performers currently playing, TLOBF get a chance to chat with James Blackshaw about the release of his new album.
Posted on 01 July 2009
TLOBF are celebrating Canada Day by bringing you Volume 2 of our Oh! Canada compilations featuring the very best of new Canadian talent. Featuring new material from The Most Serene Republic, Ford Peir and Hannah Georgas, a track from the soon to be reissued Wintersleep back catalogue and a bunch more besides. Continue Reading
Posted on 02 July 2009
Over email, exuberant frontman Nic Offer discussed a refreshing devil may care attitude to money, being grabbed in the biscuits, and whether the Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act has taken any ostensible hit on the scene… Continue Reading
Posted on 02 July 2009
Prince Edward Islander Catherine MacLellan turns in an album of light country pop that ticks all the boxes in the mainstream country rule book. But is it too country? Continue Reading
Posted on 02 July 2009
BLK JKS highly-anticipated debut album, After Robots, will be released in September on Secretly Canadian. Continue Reading
Posted on 02 July 2009
Returning with their second album: generous rough-round-the-edges garage rockers Ten City Nation. Continue Reading
Posted on 02 July 2009
Peter Wright's album is a huge sonic experience. Before you know it, you’ll have lost weeks of your life to this album. Don’t say no-one warned you. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
This show is yet another dollop of icing on the Bon Iver cake. Consistently good, consistently challenging, consistently pushing themselves - they truly are an audience’s bands, and they certainly knocked this show out of the park. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
Richmond Fontaine have announed the release of their eighth album 'We Used to Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River' preceded by single 'You Can Move Back Here'. The band will also tour the UK in September. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
In 'Canopy Glow', Anathallo's second label-released full length (and first on the Anticon label), their usual teenage angst is replaced with...well, adult angst. Which is something we all have, innit. Angus Finlayson reviews. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
Rough Trade records have announced details of the sophomore album by Taken By Trees, to be release in September. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
Maximo Park have announced a set of tour dates for this coming October. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
The debut release on Warp is sure to see Bibio reaching a whole new audience; the words ‘make or break’ seem to be hovering ominously over this release. Let’s try to ignore them. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
A tour dates update with Bat For Lashes, Franz Ferdinand and Dananananaykroyd all set to play new dates in October. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
Those lovely people organising the Supersonic Festival have pulled one out of the bag as SUNN O))) have been confirmed as extra special guests at this years festival! Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009
British Sea Power never a band to shy away from large themes take on an epic Romantic documentary about man's struggle against nature. A task they nearly pull off... Matt Poacher writes. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2009
Mr Lekman has contracted the nasty "swine flu" virus. Hero of TLOBF caught the virus whilst out on tour in South America earlier this month. He's currently recovering at home in Sweden. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2009
Win a pair of tickets to this year's Loop Festival in Brighton! It's easy, plus you'd get a chance to see some amazing life acts like Fever Ray, Fanfarlo, The XX and Squarepusher! Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2009
The follow up to their storming debut Waited Up 'Til It Was Light, Johnny Foreigner have announced the title and release date of their much anticipated sophomore album. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2009
Deastro have probably never heard The Enemy, yet 'Moondagger' sounds suspiciously like Tom Clarke and his mullet-topped brethren frotting with Deerhunter to the tune of the Tesco Value version of ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2009
Six Organs of Admittance, aka Ben Chasny, has announced plans to release a new album on Drag City, a follow up to last year's 3xCD compilation. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2009
If you can get past your pre-conceptions of this album, there's plenty to enjoy here - a debut album full of great hooks and pop masterpieces. Continue Reading
Posted on 29 June 2009
Women's Matt Fleigel hooks up with his other band The Cape May and Run Chico Run for a mostly improvised collaborative record that is as blissed out as it is sinister. Ro Cemm heartily approves. Continue Reading
Posted on 29 June 2009
Wednesday 15th July sees the return of War Child’s annual Army Of You London showcase, bringing together some of the most exciting names across the UK’s thriving new music scene, this year at The Tabernacle, Notting Hill. Continue Reading
Posted on 29 June 2009
Does the World need another "American folk rock band"? Well, if they sound as good as Foreign Born, then the answer is a resounding YES! Rich Hughes reviews. Continue Reading
Posted on 29 June 2009
Good Books have announced they are to split after performing their last ever live gig at Glastonbury last night. Continue Reading
Posted on 29 June 2009
Sheffield's lively, chair-as-percussion acoustic duo put out a full-length debut that tempers their natural enthusiasm with genuine emotional touches. Continue Reading
Posted on 26 June 2009
Pagan Wander Lu has fully invested in the backward charm of what most would call "the Casio sound" and coupled it with a simplistic folk approach. Chuck in a few politically charged bon mots and you've got a pretty decent record. Continue Reading
Posted on 26 June 2009
Following Ornette Coleman's Meltdown, Southbank Centre have announced a packed programme of gigs and events between June and September. Continue Reading
Posted on 26 June 2009
Maps - aka James Chapman - has announced details of the release of a new album, Turning The Mind, released on Mute in September. Continue Reading
Posted on 26 June 2009
Here we are, six records in and with Beacons of Ancestorship Tortoise have made, by their own esoteric standards, their most straight ahead ‘rock’ record to date. Are Tortoise still relevant? Oh yes. Matt Poacher writes. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 June 2009
Prematurely over-laden with accolades, many expected Little Boots, like so many before her, to release a faintly disappointing debut before stepping aside for the next big thing to come through, I guess only time will tell but I have my suspicions. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 June 2009
Cortney Tidwell, whose album Boys was released this very week, very kindly answered our Introducing questions... Continue Reading
Posted on 25 June 2009
Yim Yames, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, has announced plans to release an EP of George Harrison covers this coming August. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 June 2009
Muse have confirmed the release date of their new album for later in the year, and sold out the November UK tour in record time. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 June 2009
The debut album by the young London trio seems merely charmingly scrappy at first, but Simon Tyers discovers they have hidden depths. Continue Reading
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