Brighton’s Faux Discx are set to release a limited 7″ in January. Click inside to read more about it and for a link to listen to the tracks.
Women unveil one-off UK date
Calgary’s Women will be returning to the UK for one more show before 2010 bids us farewell. The band will be playing at London’s XOYO on December 7th with support coming from the mighty Fair Ohs. A ticket can be yours for £9 from We got tickets. To celebrate the band are giving away another [...]

TLOBF Interview // Women
A studio mistake led to 18 months of touring the first time around for the Calgary art rockers. So it’s no surprise they took their time on their latest, Public Strain.
Canadian City Guides #6 // Women’s Calgary
As they tour round the UK, we caught up with Women to talk about their hometown in the latest of our City Guides

Women – Public Strain
The Calgary quartet has crafted a challenging, exploratory work that demands as much patience from the listener as it surely did for the talented musicians involved.

Women announce UK tour dates
Women have confirmed a UK tour for August / September in support of their second album Public Strain (due out on 23rd August). August 30 – Sheffield, DiS @ Harley 31 – Cardiff, Globe September 01 – London, Cargo 02 – Manchester, Deaf Institute 03 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club 04 – Glasgow, Captain’s Rest [...]

TLOBF Interview :: Women
Fresh from their European tour, and just prior to recieving the news that their self titled release had been longlisted for the 2009 Polaris Prize, TLOBF’s Oh! Canada column took time out with Calgary’s Women.

Pale Air Singers – Pale Air Singers
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.

Women – The Freebutt, Brighton, 12/06/09 [Photos]
Coming to the end of a 10 month period that has seen them play just under 200 shows around the world Calgary’s Women joined forces with friends Thee Fair-Ohs to top out the tour in style.

Sonic Youth, MBV, Aphex Twin and Bloc Party annouced as headliners of Primavera
Check out the lineup for this years Primavera Festival. Full details in the official press blurb inside.
Wavves – Wavvves
San Diego’s Wavves are the latest in a recent barbarian invasion of scuzzy, lo-fi deliberate indie-pop obscurists- you know the sort: No Age, Times New Viking and Women. Tom Whyman reviews.
Women – Women
“Cryptic and spindly and slanted and enchanted and inverted and noisy and warm and fuzzy and lo-fi and subtle.” Tom Whyman reviews the debut album from Women.
CMJ Music Marathon 2008 – New York City 21st-25th October ’08
CMJ: It’s not all beer and bands, you CAN have fun too as David Laurie proves.. TLOBF takes it to the streets of NYC for the annual music and arts marathon.
Jagjaguwar, Dead Oceans and Secretly Canadian roundup
Jagjaguwar and Dead Oceans, the consistently fine spin off labels from Secretly Canadian have oodles of interested signings and new releases coming up – so, in a condensed form, heres everything in one bite sized-ish post. Here goes…
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










