Is it just me, or are Alt-J great at timing the release of their videos? Or at least their Fitzpleasure videos. In the beginning of September, the band were confirmed as shortlist nominees for the Mercury Prize. Later that day,...
Alt-J have beaten out tough competition in Django Django, Jessie Ware, Richard Hawley, to name a few, to win their first Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Best British or Irish album at the awards. Their album, An Awesome Wave, featured great...
I love BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, in that they have a segment where the band in studio covers a song by another popular band. I wish this happened more often in live shows. Anyway, these sessions are pretty much...
Despite only just dropping the video for Fitzpleasure, the Mercury-nominated Alt-J are back with a video for Something Good, off of An Awesome Wave, which is actually something good. The fourth video from the album, following the excellent videos for...
How is this for proper timing for a video release? A few hours ago, Alt-J were confirmed as nominees for the shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for best British and Irish album. Now, they have released the latest video...
12 albums have been shortlists for the 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize. The award is for the best UK or Irish album. Without further adieu, your 12 albums are: Alt-J – An Awesome Wave Ben Howard – Every Kingdom Django Django...
Alt-J have been setting the UK alight with their critically acclaimed first album, An Awesome Wave. We’ve featured their excellent song and video, Breezeblocks, as well as Tessellate. The album isn’t out in North America yet though – that happens...
Alt-J have released arguably the best video of 2012 with Breezeblocks. How will their follow up video do? You can find out below, with another gem of a song from An Awesome Wave (which you can stream here by the...
If you look to the right hand side of this fine website, you might have noticed that we have 3 songs posted, and they change every Monday (depending on the severity of our weekend hangovers) to reflect the latest and...
Alt-J burst onto our radar a few months ago. We featured them on our Sunday Morning Coming Down segment, with their excellent, must-see video for Breezeblocks. We even caught them performing an acoustic set at the historical St. Pancras International...
As mentioned on this morning’s Morning Music Notes, Alt-J were playing St. Pancras International Space Train Station as part of the Station Sessions Festival, to raise money for Prince’s Trust Music. The show was free (donations aside), and about 150...
A Little More Info on Info on Dave Grohl’s Sound City Documentary We’ve known that Dave Grohl is doing a documentary on Sound City, the record studios in Van Nuys, California. Now the man himself has spoken out about it...
