Tyneside indie-rockers Detroit Social Club unleash their debut album Existence on May 31 via Fiction/Polydor. Here’s the tracklisting: ‘Kiss The Sun’ ‘Northern Man’ ‘Black And White’ ‘Chemistry’ ‘Sunshine People’ ‘Rivers & Rainbows’ ‘Silver’ ‘Prophecy’ ‘Universe’ ‘Lights Of Life’ The album was co-produced by Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian) and is preceded by new single “Prophecy” [...]
Hotly tipped Northern Irish three-piece Two Door Cinema Club release their eagerly awaited debut LP Tourist History on Monday (March 1) through uber-hip French indie Kitsune. The boys play The Other Rooms in Newcastle on March 15.
Former 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson is set to release a brand new album in April, The Guardian reports. Featuring Austin-based indie-rockers Okkervil River as Erickson‘s backing band, True Love Cast Out All Evil is the frazzled psych-rock legend’s first full album of original material for 14 years. The LP is released through Anti [...]
Apologies for the lack of posts over the festive period but I’ve been too busy. Getting drunk. Now the hangover has cleared, I thought it was time to give you a run-down of my favourite musical moments of the last twelve months, starting with my top album of 2009; The Fruit Bats‘ The Ruminant Band: [...]
Our mates at The Cluny have been sent some copies of The Fruit Bat‘s lovely new album The Ruminant Band. If you’d like to win one of two copies of it on CD, all you have to do is a buy at least one ticket for the gig on December 14 online via Ticketweb before [...]
More than five thousand miles separate the rain-soaked monochrome of Manchester and the sun-kissed Technicolor of California but Brooklyn-based four-piece The Drums straddle the musical divide with style. Marrying the embryonic post-punk of early Factory Records with the surf guitars of Jan & Dean, debut mini-album Summertime! is an incandescent blast of lo-fi garage rock. [...]
New albums and singles worth getting your broadband switched off for illegally filesharing this week: Albums: Cornershop – Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast Reverend & The Makers – A French Kiss In The Chaos Lo Fidelity Allstars (pictured) – Northern Stomp The Dandy Warhols – Dandy Warhols Are Sound The Cinematic Orchestra – Late [...]
The new releases that are worth giving a spin this week: Albums: Kid British – It Was This Or Football (Mercury) The Leisure Society – The Sleeper (Willkommen) Singles: Mando Diao – ‘Mean Street EP’ (Island) The Fiery Furnaces – ‘The End Is Near’ (Thrill Jockey) Mr Hudson – ‘Supernova’ (Mercury) Kid Harpoon – ‘Stealing [...]
Having recently survived a debilitating bout of swine flu, New York-based outfit Lissy Trullie are excited to announce that Britrock guitar legend Bernard Butler will be producing their debut LP, due for release through Wichita Recordings in the UK early next year. Confirmed as support on The Cribs autumn tour, the band play Newcastle University [...]
Layering beautiful boy-girl harmonies over pop-tastic rockabilly-infused anti-folk, the debut LP from Sheffield-based duo Slow Club is a beguiling collection of lo-fi acoustica. Recorded almost entirely in their hometown under the stewardship of long-time Richard Hawley engineer Mike Timm, Yeah, So is driven by the subtle interactions of joint vocalists Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor. [...]
