Watch! Those Darlins – Oh God
We haven’t heard too much from indie folk and pop rockers, Those Darlins, since we saw them in London last year. We have an artful / NSFW (depending how strict your work is) video for a brand new track from...
Category: Album Release News
LIsten! Haim – The Wire
California sister trio – a sentence I will never get bored typing – are back. The BBC Sound of 2013 winners, Haim, dropped a new single on Zane Lowe’s BBC radio show, with the added bonus of making the track...
Listen! The Darcys – The River
The Darcys are one of those bands for me that we all have in our existence – we definitely know the name, but we don’t know much about them. I saw several announcements of their new song and their new...
Watch! London Grammar – Strong
London Grammar have slowly been assaulting our ears (the good kind of assaulting) over the past year with releases of sounds and videos to the Internet. We’ve heard Hey Now, Metal & Dust, and Wasting My Young Years. As the...
Cults Announce New Album Static
Well, this is exciting. Cults made my favourite album of 2011, with their instantly accessible album of pop ditties. Most impressive is that it was their debut album. They are following it up with Static, out on October 15. If...
Listen! Basia Bulat – Tall Tall Shadow (plus album announcement)
After seeing Toronto’s Basia Bulat perform at the AGO back in January, we were anxiously awaiting a follow up to the lovely 2010 album, Heart of My Own. Apparently making wishes when my clock hits 11:11 finally worked (although I’m...
Listen! Troumaca – Layou (plus B-side Sanctify)
Late last year, we featured Birmingham band Troumaca and their warm track, Lady Colour. They are following up that track and the Virgin Island EP with their debut album, The Grace, out August 26. Our first listen is the single...
Listen! Polarsets – Just Don’t Open Your Eyes Yet
Although this song is a couple of years old (or at least the demo is), it just appeared on my SoundCloud stream. The track is from Newcastle trio Polarsets. We’ve featured Polarsets before and their excellent track Tropics from 2012....
Morning Music Notes – Jay-Z Meets His Album’s Namesake
After a great show at NXNE in Toronto, BRAIDS return with a new video for a track off of Flourish // Perish (which is what I sadistically yell to all my plants). The album is out on August 20. In...
Watch! Moby (featuring Cold Specks) – A Case for Shame
Here is an interesting collaboration. We have the lovely voice of Cold Specks with the electronic soundscapes of Moby. We get a slow, string-laden track called A Case for Shame, off of his new album, Innocents, which Moby himself describes...
Morning Music Notes – Now He’s On The Beatles’ Ass
Do you remember Mazzy Star? Despite their one-off singles in 2011, they haven’t recorded anything since 1996. They will release Seasons of Your Day on September 23/24. They release the dreamy California to get us excited. Check it out below....
Listen! St. Lucia – Elevate
He might be from Brooklyn, but St. Lucia is his name, and sun-soaked pop tracks are his game. It seems like he might have a few albums out by now, given the space between the tracks that have been trickling...
Morning Music Notes – Action Figures and Fake Condoms
We have a video for the 3rd single from Laura Mvula’s Sing to the Moon album. We had the clap-happy If That’s Alright (and its remix), as well as Green Garden. The latest video is for She. She (the song,...
Watch! King Krule – Easy Easy (plus album release news)
Another post about a BBC Sound of 2013 shortlisted member. Earlier we posted about HAIM and CHVRCHES. Now we have a post about London’s teenage phenom King Krule. His 2011 self-titled EP will be followed up by his August 24...
Watch! Postiljonen – Atlantis
I occasionally make requests for songs with more saxophone parts, because you can rarely go wrong with saxophones, right? My dreams are realized with a new song from Postiljonen. The Swedish outfit have a sexy new track called Atlantis. The...
