The influential indie rock band Guided By Voices is set to reunite this summer for the Matador Records 21st Birthday celebration in Las Vegas. The reunion will feature frontman Robert Pollard and the rest of the classic ‘93-’96 lineup, including guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell, bassist Greg Demos, and drummer Kevin Fennell. Matador’s three-day [...]
On the heels of their critically acclaimed new album, "The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist," Boston's Junius have announced late Summer and early Fall US tour dates kicking off this August w/ new friends, Orbs, featuring an all-star cast of musicians from such seminal acts as Between the Buried and...
Monarchy are finally set to play their first UK live show. On 22nd July, this enigmatic duo will take to the stage at The Islington Metal Works in London.
The first part of 2010 saw Monarchy slowly building momentum, and then they hit the top of Hype Machine in June, just before embarking...
Following on from a blinding performance on the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury this weekend, *Kid Adrift* has announced the release of the *Oxytocin EP* on *July 12th 2010* through *Island Records*. A personal manifesto from Iain Archer, the brains behind the Kid Adrift project, its...
With the duo We Love, Ellen Allien has sought out the golden needle in the haystack of current club music. Its almost impossible to resist the charm of the sweet Giorgia Angiuli, with her alluring brown eyes, and the wild locks of the contemplative, emotional Piero Fragola. The pairs debut...
Even in a scene as vibrant as Brooklyn's, Paul Hammer and Deidre Muro - the principal members of Savoir Adore - bring something entirely unique and exciting to the table with their lush, leftfield slant on pop.
After releasing their limited edition debut UK single 'Bodies' earlier this year...
The Blue Eyed Shark comes from a genuinely unusual background. Taking the nickname from a female friend due to the colour of his eyes and his friends calling him a shark, the experiment part of the name refers to the album, from its inception to delivery and BESs (Blue Eyed Sharks)...
'Growing Pains', the debut album from Leeds trio Dinosaur Pile-Up, will be released via Friends Vs Records this September.
Led by the single Birds And Planes, released on digital download and limited-edition 7 vinyl, available just prior to the album on July 26, Growing Pains is the...
With their debut album crashing straight into the charts at # 16, The Drums look set to make the summer their own with the release of new single and live favourite 'Let's Go Surfing' on August 16th..
Having played two wildly received sold out headline shows @ Heaven, London last week, the band's...
OK, if you're getting this you probably won't need to take us up on this, but "Pick Up The Phone" is the Itunes Single of The Week, so anyone who wants one can grab it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pick-up-the-phone-single/id377784678. And "Fixing To Thrill" is super-sale-priced on...
Sassy North-Londoner *Zarif* is bringing something new to the summer, with the release of her lead single and album by the same name, *Box of Secrets*.
Formerly signed to RCA, after collaborations with the likes of *Groove Armada, Danny Byrd, Breakage* and *The Nextmen*, the...
So Usher’s making a bunch of noise lately, talking about how gimmicky UK artists like Taio Cruz and Jay Sean are ruining R&B by not being real enough, that they are bringing down the “true value” of R&B. All the while he’s topping the charts with “OMG”, a ridiculously gimmicky POP single produced by the proudly [...]
Pete Quaife, original bassist for the Kinks, has died at the age of 66. A childhood neighbor of the Davies brothers, Quaife played with the Kinks from 1961 to 1969, performing on classics like “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” and “Waterloo Sunset” before creative differences pushed him to leave [...]
Drake’s debut album Thank Me Later topped the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 447,000 copies in its first week of release. Only Sade’s Soldier of Love and Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now sold more in their first week this year, moving 502,000 and 481,000 copies respectively. This is also the biggest-selling debut from a solo [...]
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