Discovering that uber-special record label Bella Union are curating a stage at the bloated spectacle that is Hard Rock Calling – a two day festival primarily sponsored by the burger joint of the same name – is akin to finding a lost Klimt buried away between the frozen pizzas in ASDA.
My Sad Captains

SOTD #57 // My Sad Captains: ‘You Talk All Night’
The mark of a great pop song is surely waking up in the middle of the night with it lodged in your head for no apparent reason, right? We say a belated hello to My Sad Captains.

TLOBF curate Rough Trade Shops RoTa, free afternoon show this Saturday!
The first of (hopefully) many TLOBF curated RoTa events will take place this Saturday afternoon (November 7th). Hopefully, we’ve put together a line up for them to be proud of.

[Download] TLOBF Playlist #2.09
This month sees hotly tipped post-hardcore band The Tupolev Ghost snuggle up with some more laid-back tunes from perennial favourites Air France as well as the latest from The Thermals and Of Montreal. Plus a TLOBF Exclusive from Storsveit Nix Noltes! Enjoy!
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










