Scissor Sisters
There had been rumours that New York band Scissor Sisters had sorted out a collaboration with Azealia Banks for their new, as yet untitled fourth album, and this morning Annie Mac debuted the track on her show on Radio 1. It’s called ‘Shady Love’, it features Jake Shears rapping, and a radio rip has been doing the rounds on Twitter. You can hear it below. … Continue Reading
Frank Ocean is very good
Recently, we’ve been spending the dead time between Christmas and New Year working our way through a tin of quality street and catching up on Coronation Street. While we were doing that, however, our tip for 2012 was included in Tom Robinson‘s round-up of 6Music’s listeners’ predictions of who will be big next year in the world of pop music in his Now Playing show. We chose Frank Ocean – he’s undoubtedly already made an impression with his Nostalgia/Ultra mixtape, released for free back in February (and amongst our top 20 albums of this year), but we can’t wait to see what kind of impact he makes with his new material in 2012. Go here to listen again to the show on BBC iplayer and hear Frank Ocean’s ‘Swim Good’ amongst other artists for 2012, like First Aid Kit, Cloud Nothings and Clock Opera. Listen to another Frank Ocean cut, ‘Novacane’, below and read our justification for choosing him. Happy new year! … Continue Reading
Burial - Kindred EP
Hyperdub recently announced that there’d be new material from Burial coming in 2012, and yesterday, in their mailout to their subscribers, a few more details became clear. Burial’s Kindred EP is coming in January and it’ll feature three tracks – ‘Kindred’ on the A side, and ‘Loner’ and ‘Ashtray Wasp’ on the B. ‘Ashtray Wasp’ was played on the label’s show on Rinse FM recently – have a listen here. No other exact details just yet – but January just got a little bit more exciting for a few people! … Continue Reading
The Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence
The Weeknd have already given us plenty of music this year – as well as releasing two mixtapes (House Of Balloons, which was one of our writers’ favourite albums of the year, and Thursday), they also did production work on several tracks of Drake’s sprawling Take Care album. There were hints that another mixtape would come before the year’s out, and it’s here – you can download Echoes Of Silence from their site now. Apparently, it features a cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Dirty Diana’ and production from the also-very-good Clams Casino. Stream ‘High For This’ from House Of Balloons below. … Continue Reading
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Frankie Rose has announced the follow up to her 2010 debut album as Frankie Rose And The Outs – she’s dropped ‘The Outs’ and her second album is called Interstellar. It’ll arrive in the UK on Memphis Industries on March 19 2012. From what we’ve heard, Interstellar will see her moving away from the girl-group reverb of her last album to something a little different, a little bigger. Frankie explains, via the medium of a press release, “I always have a big picture in mind. I knew I wanted a HUGE sounding record. Big highs, big lows, and clean. There is no fuzz on this record“. Have a look at the track list for Interstellar below. … Continue Reading
Burial
Earlier this morning, Hyperdub’s head Kode 9 revealed that there’s new material on the way from Burial on the Hyperdub label in a tweet. He said:
“HDB059 Burial – Kindred EP. Join Hyperdub mailing list for news. Vinyl/digital and def less than 25quid”
This’ll be the first new solo material from Burial since this year’s strong Street Halo EP. There’s been no news through on the Hyperdub mailing list just yet, so it’s probably best that you go to hyperdub.net and sign up there to hear the news first. Meanwhile, stream ‘Street Halo’, still one of the year’s best tracks, below. … Continue Reading
Breton
Breton have been wowing us with their intricate, eclectic live shows for over a year now and the band have announced details of their first ever headline shows in the UK – they’ll play in Manchester, London and Leeds March in support of their debut album, due on Fat Cat. To celebrate the annoucement, the band have made ‘The Diamond Tiles Mix’ available for fans to hear – it includes two new Breton songs, called ‘The Hague’ and ‘Harp’, as well as tracks by jj, SBTRKT and Lil Wayne, and we’ve embedded it below. Click through to see those live show dates in full too. … Continue Reading
Azari & III
Canadian house-revival four-piece Azari & III released on of our favourite albums this year outside of the UK – their self-titled debut has only been available over here on import or limited edition vinyl since earlier this year. The group are lining up a full release on Island Records on February 19, and a ‘Reckless With Your Love’ single will precede the album a week earlier.
‘Reckless With Your Love’ is one of the standouts from the album and now has a suitably camp/odd new video, which you can watch below. … Continue Reading
The OST Presents: We Are One
Something for those of you without weekend plans: The Open Source Transmission is a monthly music podcast presented by producer/DJ Triangulator and rapper Lixx (one half of Undercurrent). Through our varied musical interests and different backgrounds we bring you a whole range of great sounds – from old to new, uplifting to melancholy, classic to obscure – but always quality!
We Are One celebrates the O.S.T.’s first birthday with DJs on the night, Zap Em, James Hall, Jepordise, DJ Massacre and, of course, The O.S.T., playing old-school hip-hop, funk, dnb, dubstep, electronica and a whole lot more juicy eclectic goodness – all the musical variation you expect from the O.S.T. podcasts, without losing touch of the Friday night party vibes. If you’re in London, be there – it’s gonna be big!:
Friday 9th December. 9pm-2am
Downstairs @ El Paso, 350-354 Old Street, London EC1V 9NQ
4 pounds on the door, free before 10
Head over to facebook for more details.
Friends
Brooklyn quintet Friends are looking to build on all the support they’ve been getting over the last few months and have announced a new single – ‘Friend Crush’ will be released on February 6 2012. You can listen to the track ahead of its release below – it’s the follow up to their inescapable, breakthrough single ‘I’m His Girl’. To coincide with the single’s release, there’ll play a trio of dates in the UK – the middle date at London’s The Lexington has already sold out, but there’s still tickets for XOYO in London or Manchester’s Deaf Institute available. Dates and song below. … Continue Reading
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