More news than you can shake a woody stick at, we’ve got the latest from The Sword, the impressive Ether festival and tour dates and tour videos…
March, 2010
Palm Springs – The Hope That Kills You
Brighton band release their depressingly-titled second album on their own label Random Acts of Vinyl.
SOTD #26 // Future Trends: ‘Sometimes Things Don’t Match Up’
A four minute celestial delight of minimal techno. Think The Field meets Memory Tapes for a port of call.
First Aid Kit – The Jericho Tavern, Oxford, 03/03/2010
They might have had some technical mishaps this evening, but Andrew Grillo still sees a band that are capable of putting an audience in awe.
The Courteeners – Falcon
Manchester’s The Courteeners give us ‘Falcon’; an overly safe, bland dadrock affair that relies too heavily on repetitive, unimaginative choruses and very little on authenticity and heart.
Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures – S/T
As uninspired and overlong as its title, with little sign of the breezy poptimism that littered the bands’ previous material. Oh dear, says Alex Wisgard.
Casiokids – Camden Barfly, London, 25/02/10
Casiokids are doing well, after plenty of remixes and irresistible singles, the band play a headline show at the Barfly, the feverish crowd jostling for space…
Newsround :: Featuring Chrome Hoof, Vessels, MGMT & The Last Dinosaur
More news being round up in a fashion not seen since One Man and His Dog… today featuring Chrome Hoof, Last Dinosaur, MGMT and more!
Kris Drever – Mark The Hard Earth
Even if folk music isn’t your normal staple Mark The Hard Earth is well worth a listen. It should challenge the ‘folkie’ stereotype of four old geezers in Aran Sweaters singing diddly dee, according to Catriona Boyle
John Cale & the Heritage Orchestra play Paris 1919 – Royal Festival Hall, London, 05/03/2010
There are few artists with careers as multifaceted as John Cale, and fewer still who can make a 37 year old album fueled by homesickness and cold war paranoia sound as fresh and vital now as when it was first committed to tape.
TLOBF Interview :: Field Music
Mathew Parri Thomas managed to steal a rare interview with Peter Brewis to talk about double albums, band identity and the pursuit of commercial success.
Club Smith – The Loss EP
Whether you’re suffering through heartache or not, Club Smith are a band you must spend time with because, as the band itself put it last week in an interview on TLOBF, “we do a new take on miserable.”
SOTD #25 // Foxx Bandits: ‘Vodka Lines’
An understated, shuffling beauty envelopes across this first 5-minute peak of Foxx Bandits, who will no doubt appeal as much to admirers of Mumford & Sons as fans of the much missed American Analog Set.
Stars go the way of The Five Ghosts with new album
The Five Ghosts is Stars follow-up to their fantastic 2007 release, In Our Bedroom After The War.
Adam Donen – Immortality
Having impressed TLOBF in his two previous bands, Donen takes his poetically and orchestrally charged songs down a more acoustic, lovelorn path.
Foals unveil secret website linked to new album
Fans who’ve been searching the internet for more information on Foals’ highly anticipated new album Total Life Forever are being greeted with a mysterious result…
