Amongst those joining the likes of Pulp, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Belle & Sebastian and Flaming Lips at Primavera Sound 2011 will be Tennis, Low, Yuck and Caribou.
Salem
Salem – Thekla, Bristol 30/11/10
Ominous and dark and unsettling: Jen Long watches SALEM amongst a sea of “witch house battery chickens”.
Win! Tickets to The Old Blue Last’s birthday party
Wish you had a ticket to The Old Blue Last’s exclusive birthday celebrations that includes performances from O Children and Salem? TLOBF could be the answer to your prayers – enter our competition to be in with a chance of dropping along to the gig on December 1.
Salem – King Night
Who are these Gen X throwbacks and why are they suddenly, suddenly, demanding such a high amount of attention when, and this is the key, nobody can really quite describe what their music sounds like? Jen Long gives it a go…
Salem announce first UK tour dates
Salem, whose debut album King Night (released next Monday, 4th Oct), have announced their debut UK dates.
TLOBF Interview // Salem
Jen Long, sat in her Renault in the pouring Cardiff rain, gets a call from the mysterious group of people known only as Salem.
Salem announce debut album “King Night”
Forget chill-wave, that shit is soooo old now. According to Salem, this Autumn is going to be all about witch-house. A sub genre they’ve given birth to without even releasing an album! Pretty impressive.
The SXSW Diaries // Day 1
Straight from the frontline, Jen Long starts her daily SXSW blog in style. With words, videos, photos and music from jj, Happy Birthday and The Smith Westerns.
Excuse Me! Memory Tapes vs. Gucci Mane!
Memory Tapes is next in a long line of artists to give Atlanta, Georgia’s Gucci Mane the remix treatment. Download “Excuse Me” inside.
Various Artists – Rough Trade Counter Culture 08
The annual staff handpicked compilation of the most exciting, offbeat and plain curious music to have emerged last year, from folk to dubstep to, um, shitgaze.
