Category: Music

After wowing us all with their fabulous new album, Lost In The Dream, The War On Drugs have just announced a UK tour for February 2015, including an appearence at Brixton Academy, the band’s biggest UK gig to date. Tickets go on sale from 9am Friday.

February Tour Dates
19th February, Manchester, Albert Hall
21th February, Southampton, O2 Guildhall
22th February, Brighton, Dome Concert Hall
24th February, London, O2 Brixton Academy
25th February, Nottingham, Rock City
26th February, Leeds, O2 Academy
27th February, Newcastle, O2 Academy
28th February, Edinburgh, Usher Hall

London four-piece Netil drop their debut single ‘Sweet Teeth’ this week on a small run of limited edition hand painted 7″s.

The post-punk gazers have shared a mind bending music video to match their blurred and jagged soundscape – stream it below.

Wonk Unit are back with a tongue-in-cheek, ska-driven new video for their next single called ‘I Love My Nagging Wife’ taken from the album “Nervous Racehorse” on TNS Records.

Pick it up from wonkunit.com or through TNS Records.

The relentless Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods have announced a follow up EP to their widely acclaimed 2014 LP Divide and Exit.

November 24th will see the arrival of highly-anticipated new music from front gob Jason Williamson and music master Andrew Fearn in the shape of Tiswas, their new Invada Records EP. Featuring four brand new studio tracks, alongside ‘Tiswas’, lifted from the Divide And Exit album, It will be released on both yellow and orange Tiswas coloured vinyl and digital download.

Jason Williamson explains the EP, track by track:

‘Tiswas’: “An attack on the waning power of guitar based rock n roll and its short-sighted viewpoint combined with the armchair anarchic lobbyists who fucking point their fingers at the masses like c**ts. I know works shit but I’m not putting my daughter on the street to please you c**s.”

‘The Mail Don’t Fail’: “The dross of right wing media. Easy target I know but one that all the same is getting worse. Good people brainwashed by these c***s. Plus another stab at the slow death which is local government and its banal workings.”

‘6 Horseman (the Brixtons)’: “Part fictional account of misguided drug use to fit a stereotyped image in order to sell records. Also a stab at delusional self-images which always end in tears. The people may tow the line but they will eventually tell you to fuck off if you keep telling them you are Elvis. Also a cheeky stab at the purists who inhabit the gig scene, so informed yet so uninformed.”

‘Bunch of C***s’: “Random observations from a city in 2014. Bunch of Cunts also touches on the distain you can sometimes have for your fellow human beings, the despair in conformity, and the despair of your own place in conformity.”

‘The Demon’: “The nickname for a specific leader of an army currently fighting wherever. The cause or the country or the reasons are of no relevance really. War and its on-going trail of death is an enemy of our existence, regardless of fucking wherever or whoever. F*ck the excuses. It’s a money spinner full of ego and extremely insulting methods of justification. F*ck off demon. F*ck off.”

Catch Sleaford Mods on tour through October and November at the dates below. (^ Supporting The Specials)

October
16th The Scholar, Leicester
23rd The 100 Club, London
24th The 100 Club, London
25th The Haunt, Brighton
26th Exchange, Bristol
31st Rock City, Nottingham ^

November
5th Broadcast, Glasgow
6th Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow ^
7th Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow ^
8th Electric Circus, Edinburugh
9th O2 Academy, Newcastle ^
10th O2 Academy, Leeds ^
11th O2 Apollo, Manchester ^
13th Roundhouse, London ^
14th Roundhouse, London ^
20th Civic Hall, Wolverhampton ^

Following July’s announcement of The Endless River, Pink Floyds upcoming new album and their first in over 20 years, the band have shared the album’s artwork online and in various locations across the world.

Large images of the sleeve art were displayed in numerous capital cities including, London, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Los Angeles and New York to mark the upcoming release.

The artwork itself, pictured above, was created by 18-year old Egyptian artist Ahmed Emad Eldin. An honorable feat, as The Endless River is just the second album from Pink Floyd that does not feature artwork by the late Storm Thorgerson, the extradonaire responsible for every ‘Floyd album cover besides their 1967 debut, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.

Constructed from over 20 hours of sessions recorded shortly after the release of 1994’s The Divison Bell, by David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, the album is said to be mainly instrumental, and features 18 tracks. The main force behind the project comes from Gilmour and Mason, revisiting and re-working the 20 year old sessions for release as a tribute to Richard. Head to Pink Floyds website to hear a clip of the album’s first track ‘It’s What We Do’.

The Endless River is due for release November 10th.

Taken from their new album, Worship The Sun, the LA psych advocates Allah-Las have dropped a new music video ‘Follow You Down’.

Shot entirely on Super-8 film, both the track and the edit show this band’s ideals are rooted firmly in the past. Watch them loose their minds in the Baja desert sands, below.

Lee Ranaldo has today announced he and the Dust will release a new acoustic record on November 24th via El Segell del Primavera.

Defining Sonic Youth’s sound with his six-string manipulations and wowing audiences with his hanging guitar show, Lee is a musician usually associated with extreme volumes and experimental dynamic changes. However, his forthcoming Acoustic Dust LP is said to reflect the more delicate sounds of the Dust, leaving the electrics aside for a combination of Ranaldos own material and stripped back cover versions including Neil Young’s ‘Revolution Blues’ and The Monkees ‘You May Just Be The One’.

Lee talks about the recording process of Acoustic Dust: “We hooked up with Raül Fernandez Refree, our engineer for the sessions. Raul was great in the studio and we all immediately became fast friends. Another friend from Portugal, João Paulo Feliciano was also in Barcelona at the time, and we invited him in to add some Hammond Organ. In four or five days we tracked 14 or 15 songs, choosing some from my album Between The Times And The Tides, plus a few from the record we were still working on at the time, Last Night On Earth, and some cover songs too. After the sessions we hit the road again with our electric instruments to finish our tour, and slowly over the following months plans were made for Raul to mix the music for release. You hold in your hands the fruits of those acoustic days in Barcelona, I hope you enjoy them.”

Acoustic Dust is sure to be an absolute treat for your ears, stay tuned for further info.