Breton announce headline UK tour and make mix available

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

Friends announces new single and line up UK tour dates

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

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Announce UK Tour

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins will be undertaking their largest UK tour to date in the New Year. Taking in shows from Glasgow to Brighton and then on a roundabout route to Leeds, KC & Jon will be performing songs from their Mercury nominated Diamond Mine album, and a few extra treats. The majority of the shows will see KC & Jon performing as a duo, with their full band joining them in Glasgow and London only.

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Marissa Nadler previews London shows with Leonard Cohen cover

Marissa Nadler

A few months ago Marissa Nadler released her fantastic self-titled new album, which we rather liked. She’ll finally be over in the UK next week for two shows – a small instore gig at Rough Trade West on October 3rd, and a full show at London’s Bush Hall on October 4th. These are the first dates on an extensive European tour – you can check out the rest of those shows below. To mark the occasion, she’s made her cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Winter Lady’ available to download for free – it is planned that this song will feature on a second collection of home-taped cover versions to be released in the near future. You can listen to ‘Winter Lady’ below. … Continue Reading

Win tickets to Chapel Club’s London gig on October 18th

Chapel Club

Having released their debut album Palace earlier this year, Chapel Club are closing out the year with a series of special UK shows. At each gig the band will play twice each night – once with a main set featuring songs from Palace and 2010′s Wintering EP, plus an earlier, special set made up of entirely new material. Having started debuting new material in their festival sets over the summer, the band are keen to continue to develop their new ideas in a live setting. You can win two tickets to see the band at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – their biggest gig to date – on 18th October by answering a very simple question. All you have to do is enter on our competition widget below. … Continue Reading

Video: Washed Out – ‘Amor Fati’

Washed Out

‘Amor Fati’ is one of the highlights of Washed Out‘s debut album Within And Without and it’s getting a single release in November. It’ll be available digitally and on 12″, backed by previously unreleased track ‘Call It Off’ and remixes by Au Revoir Simone and Clams Casino. Meanwhile, we have the dreamy, hitch-hiking video for you below and Washed Out’s UK tour dates in November. … Continue Reading

Wild Beasts present ‘Bed Of Nails’ video and add new London show to UK tour

Wild Beasts are all over the place at the moment, touring behind their widely praised third album Smother. They’ve found time to shoot the video for that album’s next single though – you can watch the performance clip for ‘Bed Of Nails’ below. Meanwhile, check out the band’s tourdates below – they’re being supported by Braids or Dutch Uncles, and they’ve added extra shows in Manchester and London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire. … Continue Reading

Listen and download the new Girls song ‘Vomit’

Girls‘ new album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, is on the way in the UK on September 12th via Fantasytrashcan and Turnstile records. A radio rip of one of the album’s tracks, ‘Vomit’, was doing the rounds yesterday, but now you can download an mp3 of the song for yourself. Listen and download below. … Continue Reading

Zola Jesus announces September London show and prepares new album

Zola Jesus has announced details of a London show on the day of the release of her new album, Conatus. She’ll play Toynbee Hall in East London on 26th September. She’s already given us a preview of what to expect from Conatus with ‘Vessel’ – you can download that, and see the rest of her tourdates so far, below. … Continue Reading

WALLS preview second album Coracle with ‘Sunporch’ stream

WALLS are preparing to swiftly follow up their critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album with Coracle, their second LP set to be released on Kompakt on 26th September. Below, we’ve got a stream of the first single ‘Sunporch’, due for release on 29th August. The duo will be supporting Battles on tour in October, and we’ve got the rest of their tourdates below. … Continue Reading