August 30th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Features, Ticker
The Baker’s Dozen: our monthly feature of the thirteen must-hear tracks from the month just gone. Say goodbye to August with good music in your ears. Girls – Honey Bunny Roll on 12th September – the day that Father, Son, Holy Ghost is released! We’ve already been treated to the epic, brooding ‘Vomit’, well Chris [...]
August 29th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Moving Mondays, Ticker
New York singer songwriter Lizzy Grant has been causing quite a stir with recently. With the original video for ‘Video Games’ taken down due to copyright issues, Grant aka Lana Del Rey, is back with a new video with the offending shots replaced and rightfully takes her place in our weekly video feature. File this [...]
August 26th, 2011 | by Sim | published in News
Future Cinema, the creators of Secret Cinema, have unveiled a Battle of the Bands competition which will give one lucky band the opportunity to play in front of 4,000 people. Future Cinema presents California Classics is set to take place on September 3rd and 4th at Canary Wharf in London where they will be screening [...]
August 24th, 2011 | by Jo | published in Stream, Ticker
James Blake and Justin Vernon revealed last week that they have decided to team up. This makes sense, how did we not see such a perfect collaboration before? Well the first of hopefully many more tracks has surfaced online via Radio 1, and it is exactly as every fan of the pair will be hoping [...]
August 19th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Download, News, Ticker
It’s been five months of hype and praise for Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd ever since he dropped his first mixtape House of Balloons. Some of the tracks have been doing the rounds for the past few weeks like ‘Rolling Stone’ and ‘The Birds Part 1′ but there’s a whole host of new material to [...]
August 19th, 2011 | by Sim | published in News
HP and Last.fm formed a partnership to put on a series of pop-up gigs in recent weeks and the final gig is planned for this Monday 22nd August. It will feature the Mercury Prize-nominated Ghostpoet fresh from the release of his (awesome) new single ‘Liiines’. Having seen him a couple of times already this year [...]
August 16th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Stream, Ticker
As one of Hotflush Recording’s bright young things, there’s always a bit of buzz around new material George FitzGerald puts out. This time however, he’s set to release a two track EP on his own label ManMakeMusic following a successful launch party earlier this month. With partners in Amit Gudka and Mixcloud co-founder Nikhil Shah, [...]
August 10th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Download, Ticker
I first heard Niki & The Dove on the Huw Stephens show back in November or so when he was playing ‘Mother Protect’ [mp3] on a regular basis and was blown away. Since then they’ve released ‘DJ Ease My Mind’ and ‘The Fox’ and are due to bring out some new material, including their debut [...]
August 9th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Stream, Ticker
The third single from Ghostpoet’s Mercury Prize nominated album Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam is out now. The video, directed by Nicholas Bentley, (previous worked includes Two Door Cinema Club and Fenech-Soler) is definitely worth a watch, while the single will come with a remix package that includes a rework from XXXY. Peanut Butter [...]
August 8th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Moving Mondays, Ticker
Say hello to Letters vs Numbers, a disparate group of musicians, filmmakers, dancers and poets based in towns and cities throughout the world. They make what can best be described as experimental indie or alt-somethingsomething, I’m not sure, but they are unusually excellent, both in terms of their music and the product their selling. Today’s [...]
