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Girl Band detail debut album

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Dublin’s finest purveyors of noise, Girl Band, have finally announced details of their highly anticipated debut album. Holding Hands With Jamie is due for release on September 25th, almost a year on from their December 2014 signing with Rough Trade back in December, and will feature nine previously unrecorded tracks.

Since blowing our heads off at the Old Blue Last back at the start of 2014, Girl Band have consistently delivered some of the most creative and exicting sounds we’ve heard throughout the year, and this debut is sure to be nothing short of a smash. Get your pre-order in here for a chance to grab one of 250 limited edition yellow presses, each coming with a photo book to match.

Holding Hands with Jamie Tracklist:
1. Umbongo
2. Pears For Lunch
3. Baloo
4. In Plastic
5. Paul
6. The Last Riddler
7. Texting An Alien
8. Fucking Butter
9. The Witch Doctor

Forthcoming UK & IE Tour Dates:
3/11 Patterns w/ Prom, Brighton
4/11 Soup Kitchen w/ Prom, Manchester
5/11 Nation of Shopkeepers w/ Prom, Leeds
7/11 Button Factory w/Paddy Hanna, Dublin
6/10 100 Club w/Prom, London
25/09 Bar Sub w/Paddy Hanna, Belfast

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Sunflower Bean share new single

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Enigmatic NYC trio Sunflower Bean have today revealed the B-side to their forthcoming debut single ‘I Hear Voices’, due for release on July 24th via Fat Possum.

‘The Stalker’ arrives dripping in phased-out sludge and ethereal new-psych charm, with some coven-esque artwork harking back to the glory days of Sabbath and Hawkwind to match. Having blown us away at SXSW this year and turning heads across the music press both state-side and in the UK, this lot are undoubtedly going to craft a sensational debut album.

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DJ takes fans for a ride with Tony

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Fans of internet lols & trolls look no further. Picture the scene, a packed out club, sweaty limbs flying everywhere, the atmosphere is fizzing with pills and pints. Everyone is building to that climactic moment known to many as ‘the drop’, but said drop is not the dirty, skanking drum n bass your ear craves, it’s everyone’s favourite new romantic, Tony Hadley, and his band Spandau Ballet’s 1983 ballad, ‘True’.

Watch Australian DJ duo Mashd N Kutcher take a throng of gurning teenagers for a ride at their recent festival set in Brisbane on the clip below.

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Live Government Issue clip from Salad Days

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As the Washington DC hardcore documentary Salad Days premiere’s this month across the UK at the dates above, some new footage of Government Issue playing live from back in day has been posted online for your enjoyment tonight.

Head to Dazed for a simple Q&A with director Scott Crawford and here for the trailer.

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New record player allows you to skip tracks

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Designer Roy Harpaz is transforming your record collection with his new invention, the TOC. A vertical, free standing record player utilising a linear tracking system to capture analogue sound perfectly, whilst also allowing listeners to skip between LP tracks using a remote control.

The TOC plays 12″s, 10″s, 7″s and also warped records with ease due to it’s integrated spherical bearings. Check out the trailer below – a genius feat of engineering, or a rip off of Sony’s PS-F5 Flamingo, the turntable that time forgot?

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Metz announce UK Tour for Autumn

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Famed Toronto noise-rock trio METZ have announced UK tour dates for this coming Autumn with Crows and Protomartyr in support.

Watch the new music video for ‘The Swimmer’ here and check out the forthcoming dates below.

Tour Dates

** w/ Protomartyr
^ w/ Crows

September

6th Dublin, IE – Electric Picnic

October

30th Birmingham, UK – Hare and Hounds ^
31st Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club ** ^

November

1st London, UK – Scala **
3rd Bristol, UK – The Fleece **
4th Manchester, UK – Sound Control **
5th Glasgow, UK – Stereo **

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NME to go free from September

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One of our most treasured and longest running music publications, the NME, is set to be distributed for free across the UK beginning this coming Autumn.

In print since 1952, the New Musical Express held the market share of music weeklies for years, continually outselling it’s rivals, Melody Maker, Sounds and Record Mirror, with sales figures regularly reaching the 300,000 mark through the 1970s. 20 times more than today’s 15,000 per week figures, which have been falling on the ABC Circulation stats for years.

Regardless, since launching online in 1996 the magazine has remained a benchmark taste-maker in the music press, and while some deem the forthcoming transition to a free paper as a sorry move and potential devaluation of it’s content and position, the magazine’s editor Mike Williams details the move as an evolution and positive step into the future.

Published today on NME.com, Williams explained –

“The cat is out of the bag, and I couldn’t be more excited. For the past few months we’ve been working in secret here at NME on the next phase of our evolution. The goal, throughout all of our research and development, has been to find new and inventive ways to connect with you, our audience, better than ever. In the 63 years since NME launched we have evolved and transformed plenty of times. The evolution of 2015 is our boldest ever move, and I’m delighted to be able to share the news with you at last.”

Although NME have stated that music is “firmly at the heart of the brand”, they have revealed the new issue will explore content focusing more so on “film, fashion, television, politics, gaming and technology”. How will this shape the future of the UK music press? Leave a comment below and tell us what you think.

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Grohl Returns To The Throne

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Having broken his leg after falling from the stage last month at a gig in Gothenburg, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters were forced to cancel a headline slot at Glastonbury last weekend, and a run of sold out shows at Wembley Stadium.

Hell bent on delivering to his fans, Friday night saw Grohl and his band return to the stage at Washington DC’s RFK Stadium for a 4th July celebration. The show saw the frontman bandaged and cast, atop a gigantic throne built from guitars, amps and ‘lasers and shit’, hand-drawn plans of which are pictured above.

Watch the clips below which detail Grohl’s original fall and a rendition of ‘The Pretender’.

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Sludge super-group incoming!

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We all know Ty Segall likes a good ol’ knees up ’round the old Joanna, dipping his psychedelic toes into side projects and collaborations under the guise of Fuzz, The Traditional Fools, Sic Alps, White Fence and many more, not to mention eight studio albums under his own name.

Today, we discover Segall’s involvement in a new band called Broken Bat, and it’s quite possibly the most exciting super group you’ll hear about this year. Featuring Segall himself, the Melvins’ Dale Crover on drums, and OFF!/Redd Kross bassist Steven McDonald, the trio have just revealed a teaser song snippet on BandCamp titled ‘Take My Medicine’.

Stream this sludge nugget below and stay tuned for more.

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Watch Ty Segall team with Wand for acoustic set

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The ever-prolific Ty Segall recently debuted a new song during a run of acoustic shows last week. Joined by Wand’s Corey Hanson across various NYC venues, the duo switched out their fuzz-pedals for acoustic’s and span a charming rendition of Neil Young’s ‘For The Turnstiles’, (on the Instagram clip below) and new material which can be heard on the below YouTube clip at 2.45.

A video posted by @bunnyra on