The-Dream - 1977
Terius Nash, aka The-Dream, is gearing up to unleash his first new material since last year’s Love King tomorrow – he’ll release 1977, a ten track album, and the first of two new records this year. As a preview, he’s made the album’s lead track, ‘Wake Me When It’s Over’ available to stream. … Continue Reading
Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567
Radiohead have been releasing a series of remix singles throughout the summer, and have made the fifth in that series available to stream ahead of its release next week – you can listen below. The band also recently announced that these singles will be compiled on a full album, TKOL RMX 1234567, which will be released on XL Recordings on October 10th. The guestlist reads like a who’s who of electronic and bass music at the moment, with Actress, Blawan, Caribou, Jamie XX, Harmonic 313 and Pearson Sound featuring, amongst others. We’ve also got the tracklist below. … Continue Reading
Iceage
Danish punks Iceage are currently preparing to bring their debut album New Brigade to the UK on Abeano – it’s out on 5th September. You can steam the whole thing, ahead of its release, below. The band have also got shows lined up over here that week – you can check out the dates below. … Continue Reading
James Blake
It’s been known that a collaboration between James Blake and Bon Iver was on its way since Blake made a typically short and to the point announcement via Twitter last week – last night, a track emerged, ‘Fall Creek Boys Choir’ can be streamed below, and already people are wondering whether the collaboration is going to yield more than this one track, which sounds like the meeting point between Bon Iver’s more expansive new material, and Blake’s Klavierwerke EP era production. … Continue Reading
Active Child - You Are All I See
Active Child’s debut EP, Curtis Lane, emerged at a point last year when you couldn’t move for lo-fi bedroom pop projects. However, Pat Grossi’s music not only stood out from the crowd in terms of instrumentation (“he plays the harp!”), but it’s also proved to have a degree of longevity (and yes, perhaps we’re at a point now where if you’re still listening to something a year after its release then that counts as ‘longevity’). The tracks on Curtis Lane, while clearly still the early results of a musical project, were complex, multi-layered, and well-composed in their melding of pop with unlikely influences (gospel, new age, and so on). … Continue Reading
Toddla T - Watch Me Dance
In the weeks and months leading up to the release of Watch Me Dance, Toddla T’s had more than his fair share of bad luck. Way back in early July, Toddla’s second album was leaked, and his label Ninja Tune took the unusual, but you feel justifiable step of naming and shaming the journalist and publication responsible for the leak. On top of that, Ninja Tune was one of the labels affected by the Sony/PIAS warehouse fire in Enfield last week – as a result, the physical release of Watch Me Dance has been delayed for a week. You can, however, download a digital copy right now. … Continue Reading
Feist - Metals
Feist’s new album, Metals – the follow up to 2007′s The Reminder – is released on 3rd October in the UK. The first taster of material from Metals has emerged tonight – ‘How Come You Never Go There’ is available to stream below. … Continue Reading
Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
Nicola Roberts continues to tread her own pop path away from Girl’s Aloud with the release of her second solo single, ‘Lucky Day’, on September 18th. Her album, Cinderella’s Eyes, follows on September 26th. We’ve got the video for ‘Lucky Day’ below – it was shot in New York’s East Village, where the temperature was 120 degrees, which explains why she isn’t wearing any trousers. … Continue Reading
Sony/PIAS warehouse
As riots spread across London for a third night last night, the Sony/PIAS warehouse in Enfield was set on fire. It’s thought that stock belonging to hundreds of independent record labels has been lost. Fans and members of the music industry reacted on Twitter throughout the day, and there are already moves to help compensate the labels that have been so badly affected by the fire. … Continue Reading
If you do a quick search on Youtube, you can find videos of Abraham Orellana, aka AraabMuzik, demonstrating the kind of skills that have seen him rise up to take on production work for the likes of Cam’ron and Vado. In a live setting, Araab uses a drum machine like an instrument, dragging ferocious beats out of an MPC in his own lightning-quick way. His approach betrays his early influences – gangsta rap – and you can hear him trying to recreate that unremitting energy using the relatively cheap equipment he has to hand. … Continue Reading
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