With a string of live dates lined up for this summer, Gruff Rhys has revealed a UK tour for this coming October.
May, 2011
Pavement by accident: TLOBF meets Wet Paint
Wet Paint’s Babak Ganjei isn’t miserable. It’s more that he has an almost preternatural lack of arrogance. Josh Hall dodged Hackney’s yummy mummies to talk to him about slackers, Sub Pop, and dinosaurs.
Ren Harvieu – Through The Night
Yes, it’s AOR, music your mam would probably like, whatever – there’s a void in the market opened up by Adele’s massive gob and it needs filling. And fast. Ren might just be the girl to do it.
Ja Ja Ja // Eleanoora Rosenholm
Eleanoora Rosenholm is the work of three incredibly respected Finnish artists who have written three concept albums which narrate the dramatic and disturbed odyssey of a suburban housewife to “hysterically kaleidoscopic pop”.
Marques Toliver performs ‘Deep In My Heart’ in the back of a transit
One final tid bit to cap off our epic coverage from last weekend’s The Great Escape Festival. The fine people over at Bands In Transit have given us this wonderful clip of Marques Toliver holed up in the back of a transit van reciting ‘Deep In My Heart’.
Win! Tickets to see Fleet Foxes and The Flaming Lips at The Eden Sessions
We have a pair of tickets to give away for both The Flaming Lips and Fleet Foxes’ live shows at The Eden Sessions in Cornwall this summer.
Caged Animals – Girls On Medication // Song Of The Day #258
‘Girls On Medication’ is an unnervingly frank confession of lust for an over-opiated young lady, from Brooklyn’s Caged Animals. It is today’s Song Of The Day, courtesy of Lucky Number.
Distinct Psychic Atmospheres: No Joy
As No Joy embark on an extensive tour of Europe, Stephen Smith takes a closer look at their album Ghost Blonde and the distinctive sense of distance throughout its ten tracks.
The Future’s Bright, the Future’s….Odd?
Ready (or more likely) not, Odd Future are coming. And we’d best be prepared.
Friendly Fires – Pala
Sometimes pulsating and euphoric, sometimes spacious and contemplative, Pala never ceases to be inescapably intoxicating and surprisingly fresh. This is unmistakably Friendly Fires but, as Sam Lee discovers, it’s much better…
Laki Mera – The Proximity Effect
Laki Mera are laid back to the angle of the horizontal, their sound lazily relaxing into a synth-strumental of 80s electronica soundtrack of slow motion lightsabers swinging across a dark space.
David Thomas Broughton – Outbreeding
Outbreeding sees Broughton ripping away from the beaten path, frothing at the mouth, scrabbling for enlightenment in a new stretch of earth. Meryl Trussler reviews.
Independent Label Market takes over Soho
The Independent Label Market took over Soho’s Berwick Street yesterday, with label owners hawking their wares amongst bemused fruit and veg men.
Ja Ja Ja // Retro Stefson
Retro Stefson, are one of Iceland’s brightest hopes and best live bands. They kindly gave us an insight into their moustacheod psyche, by way of our world-famous Seven Questions…
Independent Label Market: In photos
The Independent Label Market saw the owners and managers of some of the world’s most influential record labels set up stalls and play shopkeeper for the day in the centre of London’s West End.
Pushing Hands – He’s Still Here
‘He’s Still Here’ by Pushing Hands has a definite Bombay Bicycle Club feel – but also a lovely late-night, on the bus on your own semi-moroseness.
