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.

March 28 – Corsica Studios, London
March 29 – Islington Mill, Manchester
March 30 – Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds

THE DIAMOND TILE MIX – bretonLABS by bretonlabs

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.

February 6, Manchester, Deaf Institute
February 7, London, The Lexington SOLD OUT
February 8, London, XOYO

Friends – Friend Crush by LuckyNumberMusic

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.

Full tour details are as follows, tickets for all shows go on sale on Friday the 14th of October:

Thursday 26th January Glasgow Celtic Connections (ABC)
www.celticconnections.com 0141 353 8000

Friday 27th January Gateshead The Sage (Hall 2)
www.thesagegateshead.org 0191 443 4661

Saturday 28th January Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk 02476524524

Monday 30th January Cambridge The Junction
www.junction.co.uk 01223 511511

Tuesday 31st January Nottingham Glee Club
www.glee.co.uk 0871 472 0400

Wednesday 1st February Norwich Norwich Arts Centre
www.norwickartscentre.co.uk 01603 660352

Thursday 2nd February London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
www.seetickets.com

Saturday 4th February Brighton St Georges Church
www.ticketweb.co.uk 01273 606312

Sunday 5th February Bristol The Fleece
www.ticketweb.co.uk 01179 299008

Monday 6th February Manchester St Ann’s
www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444 771000

Tuesday 7th February Liverpool The Capstone Theatre
www.thecapstonetheatre.com 0151 709 3789

Wednesday 8th February Lancaster Lancaster Library

http://www.seetickets.com/Event/KING-CREOSOTE-JOHN-HOPKINS/Lancaster-Library/595232

Thursday 9th February Leeds City Varieties
www.cityvarieties.co.uk 0113 243 0808

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.

4th Oct – Bush Hall, London, England
6th Oct – Comet, Berlin, Germany
7th Oct – Uebel & Gefährlich-Turmzimmer, Hamburg, Germany
8th Oct – Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
9th Oct – Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden
10th Oct – Hendriksberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
11th Oct – Revolver, Oslo, Norway
12th Oct  - Perfect Sounds Forever, Bergen, Norway
14th Oct – Klubi, Tampere, Finland
15th Oct – Dynamo, Turku, Finland
16th Oct – Kuudes Linja, Helsinki, Finland

winter lady by marissanadler

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.

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The rest of Chapel Club’s October UK tour dates are below:

10th Manchester Sound Control
11th Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
12th Sunderland Independent
13th York Duchess
15th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
16th Brighton Komedia
17th Oxford O2 Academy
18th London O2  Shepherds Bush Empire

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.

12-Nov: Bristol – Motion
13-Nov: Manchester – Sound Control
14-Nov: Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
15-Nov: London – Heaven

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.

Fri 5th Aug The Big Chill Festival
Sat 6th Aug London Victoria Park – Field Day Festival – MAIN STAGE HEADLINE
Fri 2nd September Dorset - End of the Road Festival
Thu 10 Nov Birmingham: HMV Library
Fri 11 Nov Oxford O2 Academy
Sat 12 Nov Leeds Constellations
Mon 14 Nov Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
Tue 15 Nov Aberdeen Lemon Tree
Wed 16 Nov Manchester Cathedral – SOLD OUT
Thur 17 Nov Manchester Cathedral – EXTRA DATE ADDED!
Sat 19 Nov Bristol Anson Rooms
Sun 20 Nov Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Mon 21 Nov Southampton University
Wed 23 Nov London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire – SOLD OUT
Thu 24 Nov London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire – EXTRA DATE ADDED!
Fri 25 Nov Cambridge Junction
Sat 26 Nov Brighton Concorde II – SOLD OUT

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.

In other news, Girls will tour the UK and Europe in November – those tourdates are below.

8th – The Globe, Cardiff, UK
9th – Electric Ballroom, London, UK
10th – Venue TBC, Manchester, UK
11th – Glasgow, Stereo, UK
12th – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
14th – Molotow, Hamburg, Germany
15th – Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
16th – OT301, Amsterdam, Netherlands
17th – Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany
18th – Laiterie Club, Strasbourg, France
19th – Maroquinerie, Paris, France
21st – Wuk, Vienna, Austria
22nd – Mascotte, Zurich, Switzerland
23rd – Plastic, Milan, Italy
24th – Midi Festival, Hyeres, France
25th – 27th – Primavera Club ’11, Spain
29th Lux Club, Lisbon, Portugal
30th Casa Da Musica, Porto, Portugal

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.

Vessel – Zola Jesus by souterraintransmissions

4^th AUG THE BIG CHILL Festival
6^th AUG FIELD DAY Festival
3^rd SEPT END OF THE ROAD Festival
11^th SEPT BESTIVAL Festival
26^th SEPT LONDON Toynbee Studios

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.

28/07/11 Trailerpark Festival DENMARK
12/08/11 Dockville Festival, Hamburg GERMANY
13/08/11 Pantiero Festival, Cannes FRANCE
26/08/11 Nowa Musyka, Katowice POLAND
17/09/11 The Arches, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
01/10/11 Cameo Gallery, NYC (headline show)
02/10/11 Royale Nightclub Boston +
03/10/11 Le National Montreal CANADA +
05/10/11 Grog Shop Cleveland +
07/10/11 Vic Theater Chicago +
08/10/11 Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis +
10/10/11 Starlite Room Edmonton CANADA +
13/10/11 Wonder Ballroom Portland +
10/12/11 ATP – Nightmare Before Christmas UK =

+ supporting Battles
= supporting Battles & Flying Lotus