Howling Bells - Album stream on Facebook

 HOWLING BELLS

EXCLUSIVE ALBUM STREAM ON THE BAND'S FACEBOOK

THE LOUDEST ENGINE OUT 12 SEPTEMBER 2011 ON COOKING VINYL

UK TOUR STARTS NEXT WEEK

Howling Bells will release their new album on September 12th on Cooking Vinyl.  Recorded in Las Vegas with The Killers’ Mark Stoermer producing, The Loudest Engine will be preceded by a clutch of live shows, including a London date at the Electric Ballroom on September 15th.

LISTEN TO THE ALBUM EXCLUSIVELY HERE: http://listn.to/howlingbells

A raw, psychedelic third record, and the sequel to 2009's "Radio Wars", the recording of "The Loudest Engine" saw Howling Bells, the Australian-formed, London-based four piece comprising singer/ guitarist Juanita Stein and her brother Joel (lead guitarist), drummer Glenn Moule, and bassist Brendan Picchio - forge a sonic union with Nevada's expansive surroundings and Las Vegas's street-soiled vibe.

Says Stein of the album, “There's a singular sound which is more folk and rock than our last two albums, but it's interpreted in a modern sense. It wasn't a conscious effort to make a '70s tinged record. It was a very natural progression.

"The album shows that we're 21st century kids making a modern psychedelic record. [It] is our grown up record. The first was about that great initial leap, the second was us exploring different waters. This one is us, all having met at one place, at one time. I think this record will change people's perspectives of the band."

WATCH FIRST SINGLE 'INTO THE SKY' VIDEO HERE: 

HOWLING BELLS LIVE - UK TOUR

Weds  14th SEPTEMBER PORTSMOUTH, WEDGEWOOD ROOMS                          

Thurs 15th LONDON, ELECTRIC BALLROOM                          

Fri 16th  SHEFFIELD, PLUG                                                           

Sun 18th LEEDS, COCKPIT                                                    

Mon 19th GLASGOW, ORAN MOR                                                

Tues 20th  MANCHESTER, ACADEMY 3   

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Introducing... FOLKS

FOLKS

FREE DOWNLOAD

UK TOUR + MILES KANE UK TOUR + NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS SUPPORT

New Manchester based six piece FOLKS have released a free download of a track called ‘Avalanche’ and start their own headlining UK tour this week before they go on tour with Miles Kane in October and support Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at the Roundhouse in London in October.  The band will also appear on Radio 2 this weekend (Saturday 10^th September) when Noel takes over Dermot O’Leary’s show between 3pm – 6pm and will perform two songs. 

Bringing together classic song writing with emotive vocals and irresistible melodies, Folks make music to be listened to and enjoyed over and over.  The band were formed when guitarist and writer Michael Beasley hooked up with vocalist Scott Anderson, and they relocated to the US to record what would end up being their debut album, to be released early 2012.    On their return the duo pulled together a full band (Thom Fripp – lead guitar, Harry Gumery – bass, Wil Akroyd - keyboards and Elliot Barlow –drums) which ensured this group could also let rip live.  They kept themselves busy in a rehearsal studio, out of the way, letting the tunes evolve into another side of Folks – one with absolute precision playing and amazing stage energy.

‘Avalanche’ is available for free now via  www.facebook.com/wearefolks

Headline shows:

8 September - GLASGOW, King Tuts

9 September - EDINBURGH, Electric Circus

22 September - DERBY, The Victoria Inn

23 September - DARLINGTON, Seen

24 September - SUNDERLAND, Plugged In

28September - LEEDS, The Empire

29 September - YORK, Fibbers

30 September - STOCKTON, Ku Bar,

1 October - NOTTINGHAM, Bodega

6 October - BRISTOL, Thelka

7 October - DONCASTER, The Social

8 October - PRESTON, Mad Ferret

Supporting Miles Kane:

13 October - MIDDLESBROUGH, The Empire

14 October  - SHEFFIELD, Leadmill

15 October - LEEDS, Metropolitan University

17 October - COVENTRY, Kasbah

18 October - BIRMINGHAM, The Library

19 October - GLASGOW, The Garage

21 October - LIVERPOOL, Academy 2

22 October - MANCHESTER, The Ritz

23 October - CAMBRIDGE, The Junction

25 October - LONDON, Electric Ballroom

26 October - LONDON, Electric Ballroom

Supporting Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds:

31 October - LONDON, Roundhouse

Headline shows:

18 November - INVERNESS, Mad Hatters

25 November - MANCHESTER, Deaf Institute

26 November - LONDON, Lexington

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Charlotte Gainsbourg announces new EP, album and video

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
DOUBLE ALBUM ‘STAGE WHISPER’ 7th NOVEMBER
‘TERRIBLE ANGELS ‘EP 5th SEPTEMBER
‘TERRIBLE ANGELS’ VIDEO AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW

Charlotte Gainsbourg will release her new album ‘Stage Whisper’ through Because Music on 7th November. A double album of live and unreleased studio tracks, it will be the follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘IRM’ album, which came out in January 2010. ‘Stage Whisper’s studio material features collaborations with Beck, Conor O’Brien of Villagers, Noah and the Whale and Connan Mockasin. A new EP entitled ‘Terrible Angels’ will be released on 5th September. Available on vinyl and CD, the EP features two unreleased studio tracks, two live recordings and two videos.

The track 'Terrible Angels' can also be listened to here:

   Charlotte Gainsbourg - Terrible Angels by Because Music

‘Stage Whisper’ track listing;
Live Album                  
1. IRM                                         
2. Set Yourself On Fire           
3. Jamais                            
4. Heaven Can Wait           
5. In The End                          
6. AF 607 105               
7. Just Like A Woman            
8. The Operations
9. Trick Pony
10. The Songs That We Sing
11. Voyage

Studio Album
1. Terrible Angels
2. Paradisco
3. All The Rain  
4. White Telephone
5. Go To Let Go
6. Out Of Touch
7. Memoir

Many of the studio tracks on ‘Stage Whisper’ originate from the sessions for ‘IRM’, which enjoyed critical claim across the globe. The Sunday Telegraph declared the album to be a work of “borderline genius”, Mojo claimed “IRM marks Charlotte Gainsbourg’s musical coming of age”, whilst the Daily Telegraph enthused “her best work and arguably Beck’s best in a decade, too”. The New York Times called ‘IRM’ “an engrossingly eclectic pop record and a kind of coming-out party: the first time that Ms Gainsbourg the chanteuse has displayed the charisma of Charlotte Gainsbourg the actress.” Vanity Fair deemed the album “an enigmatic, varied, and sonically complex tour de force."
‘Terrible Angels’ EP includes: ‘Terrible Angels,’ written and produced by Beck, ‘Memoir, written by Conor O’Brien (Villagers) and produced by O’Brien and Renaud Letang (Feist), live versions of ‘IRM’ and Dylan’s ‘Just Like A Woman,’ recorded on Gainsbourg’s summer 2010 European tour and videos for ‘Just Like A Woman’ (live) and ‘Terrible Angels.’

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Breton announce debut album | Video: The Commission

BRETON

Debut album ‘Other People’s Problems’ - Released on Fat Cat Records - February 2012

THE COMMISSION (album track) - VIDEO

Art pop architects Breton are releasing a stunning new video to accompany their new song ‘The Commission’. It’s a strikingly beautiful song with a black heart and overwhelming sense of inevitable foreboding. The accompanying video perfectly encapsulates this. It was directed by BretonLABS and Stuart Sinclair, a motion graphics artist who makes computer generated clips of space and satellites. Breton front man - artistic experimentalist, songwriter and filmmaker Roman Rappak, invited Sinclair to collaborate on the video. The actor is Patrick Lyons, a beat poet from Boston – and legend on the south London squat party scene. The pair met when Breton started out and regularly played the squat party circuit.

Watch the video here:

and listen to 'The Commission" here:

http://soundcloud.com/bretonlabs/breton-the-commission

‘The Commission’ is taken from Breton’s forthcoming debut album, ‘Other People’s Problems’, due for release in February 2012 on Fat Cat Records. It’s the follow up to their critically acclaimed ‘Counter Balance’ EP, which was released in December last year on Hemlock, the specialist label responsible for launching the careers of James Blake and Fantastic Mr Fox. The EP was lauded by the blogs, raved about by the likes of Dazed & Confused, Clash and The Fly and championed by key tastemakers at radio, in particular Mr Huw Stephens.

Under the moniker BretonLABS, the band have delivered innovative remixes for Local Natives, Tricky, Maps & Atlases, Tom Vek, Temper Trap and made videos for Penguin Prison, 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Flats.

Breton recently supported Tom Vek on his sold out comeback tour of the UK.

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You Love Her Coz She's Dead announce debut album with free download

SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM – 31 OCTOBER 2011 on  GLASSTONE RECORDS

FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILBLE NOW

Brighton-based duo YOU LOVE HERE COZ SHE’S DEAD release their debut self-titled album on Glasstone Records on October 31st.  The album will be available digitally from August 29th.

YOU LOVE HERE COZ SHE’S DEAD’s album release follows an iTunes featured 'Hot Picks' debut EP, singles, remixes & compilations on Kitsuné, EMI & Glasstone, and music appearing on films (Teen Wolf) and TV Shows (Skins).

The album is a collection of 10 tracks (some re-worked and some brand new) that Elle & Jay felt made sense together and are a good representation of their collaborative creative efforts. The album was entirely produced and mixed by YLHCSD and mastered at The Exchange in London by Nilesh Patel (Daft Punk / Justice / Mr.Oizo / Björk / Underworld).

DOWNLOAD ALBUM TRACK ‘LEAP OF DESIRE FOR FREE HERE:

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or here:
   FREE DOWNLOAD - You Love Her Coz She's Dead - Leap Of Desire (I) by youlovehercozshesdead


YOU LOVE HER COZ SHE'S DEAD have been warming up live this year with acts like SLEIGH BELLS, UFFIE (Ed Banger), HUORATRON, FLUX PAVILION & BLOOD RED SHOES at various UK shows & European Festivals.

YLHCSD's album launch party will take place at The Nest, London on Sat 27th August (Free entry before 22.30)  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226640280707114 

Introducing: Age of Consent

AGE OF CONSENT

THE BEACH – 05.09.11

London based duo Age of Consent release their debut single “The Beach” on September 5th 2011.

Age of Consent are Joe Reeves and Darren Cullen, former members of Shitdisco.

Since leaving Shitdisco, they have set up their own studio in East London and started working on new material as well as producing great remixes for the likes of Gary Numan, La Roux and Yuksek among others.

They make dark, dystopian gothic-pop influenced by bands and production duos such as The Knife, Suicide and Yeasayer.

Their debut single “The Beach” was recorded in a 16th century Italian farmhouse with producer Luke Smith who has previously worked with Depeche Mode, Foals and Crystal Fighters.

   The Beach by ageofconsent

Directed by Gareth Phillips (Cat's Eyes, Is Tropical) the video references the French Situationist movement and their idea; “Sous le paves. la plage” / “Beneath the pavement, the beach”. Drawing upon dream-like imagery, it explores the desire to escape from normality.



In only a few months of playing live, Age of Consent have taken their drum heavy live show to Italy and Austria. They have played with The Drums, Fiction, Is Tropical, Koudlam & Tiga. They have already confirmed a few live dates, with more to be announced soon:

 05 August – London, @ The Silver Bullet, Finsbury Park

13 August – London, @ The Nest, Dalston

12 August – Chichester, I Am Joy Festival @ The Vestry

10 September - London @ ? Bar/Question Mark Bar - Single Launch Party: Age of Consent (Live), Klaxons (Dj) and more TBC

17 September – London, Sound Tracks Festival @ Concrete Space, Shoreditch

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IS TROPICAL announce UK Tour in September

IS TROPICAL have announced dates for their UK headline tour this September, in support of their recent debut album “Native to” released in June this year on KITSUNÉ. IS TROPICAL will also be playing this year’s Underage Festival on Friday 5^th August.

  

Full dates:

05/08/2011 London, Underage Festival

20/09/2011 Southampton - Joiners

21/09/2011 Cardiff - Clwb Ifor Bach

23/09/2011 Nottingham - The Bodega Social Club

24/09/2011 Sheffield - The Harley

25/09/2011 Manchester - The Deaf Institute

26/09/2011 York - Stereo

27/09/2011 Glasgow - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut

28/09/2011 Liverpool - Wolstenholme Creative Space

29/09/2011 Bristol - The Croft

04/10/2011 London - Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen

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Danny & The Champions of The World: New single, video and September UK Tour

DANNY & THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD

New Single, Video And Tour

Fresh from the holy fields of Glastonbury, where they performed to rapt crowds not once, not twice, but three times, Danny and the Champions of the World are in top gear and heading down a motorway near you with an eleven date headline tour.  Known for their rocking live performances, the band have had audiences clamouring for more of the feel-good music hailed by Q Magazine as “a pure passion revue” and garnering critical acclaim daily.

First though, You Don’t Know (My Heart Is In The Right Place) is hitting virtual stores on the 8^th of August, as the first single from the forthcoming album, Hearts And Arrows, released on the 18th of July.  Uplifting, rootsy and full of soul, You Don’t Know punches its message home with a conviction and certainty that’s not afraid to show some fragility behind its strength.  An atmospheric video by award-winning director Simon Minett shows the band at their best: in a rundown warehouse in Hackney, performing their hearts out.

Danny & The Champions of The World have also announced a UK tour in September. Full dates below:

18 Sept - Winchester, The Railway

19 Sept - Oxford, Jericho

20 Sept - Bristol, Cooler

21 Sept - Birmingham, Hare and Hound

22 Sept - London, Bush Hall

24 Sept - Glasgow, King Tuts

25 Sept - Sheffield, Harley

26 Sept - Newcastle, Cluny

27 Sept - Leeds, Brundell

28 Sept - Nottingham, Bodega

29 Sept - Manchester, Deaf Institute

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Puro Instinct - Download free track featuring Ariel Pink + Watch video

Puro Instinct ‘Headbangers in Ecstasy’

Debut album released 12^th September 2011 on Record Makers

Download free track featuring Ariel Pink + Watch video

 

Hailing from "a maelstrom of reinvention, reckless idealism, and rainbow-chasing" known as Los Angeles, Puro Instinct are the psychedelic pop discovery that's about to make your year look a while lot stronger.

The speech marks come courtesy of their mouthpiece, 24-year-old Piper Kaplan, who joined by her 16-year-old sister Skylar have cut one of the most striking and formidable pairings on the West Coast indie-rock circuit in recent years. Piper, and absurdly brilliant talisman, Skylar. Joined by an all-star squad of believers: Cody Porter, Jessie Clavin, Mike Baum, and Crazy Murray, they have forged a sound that falls into that rare space that feels both vintage and happenin', fun, young, freaky and sexy. A sound that's already made the year for all kinds of esteemed folks all around the world, from the likes of Gorilla Versus Bear in the States to dear old Blighty's NME, as their debut long-player 'Headbangers On Ecstasy' dawned upon them.

A long-term sibling-like kinship with local cosmic pop wizards Ariel Pink and his Haunted Graffiti, leading to R. Stevie Moore, Kenny Gilmore and sometimes even Ariel himself taking the helm on recording sessions or chipping in on the album and onstage. It's a harmonious and poignant union, Puro's hazy 'Stevie & Christy' vintage charm, mixed with giddy weirdo abandon, marrying with Haunted Graffiti's beautiful madness like they were born for each other. NYC's most notorious left-of-centre hit factory Mexican Summer - home to the likes of Best Coast and Washed Out - grant 'Headbangers...' release in America, and Record Makers (Sebastien Tellier, Kavinsky , TURZI) for the rest of the world.

‘Stilyagi’ (which features Ariel Pink) is a vivid showcase of the band at its most deranged and sweet peak.  While staples like 'California Shakedown' and 'Luv Goon' reveal a groove-stricken backbone that sets off Skylar's trademark intricate spiralling twangs with airy, naive tension, and a her big sis' darting, spectral chants and woozy wooing. Piper nods to  'Silky Eyes' as one of their finest three and a bit minutes in terms of nailing the bands idealist dream-weaving manifesto "A beautiful, omnipotent thing capable of fanning the flames of every feeling and communicating ideas that are too difficult or awkward to put into words.”

Download "Stilyagi" for free here:  

   Puro Instinct - Stilyagi (Ft Ariel Pink) by RecordMakers

 

With a world tour of epic proportions spreading the hazy dreams across the globe for pretty much the rest of 2011 and onward, they hit the UK shores in July and then go onto:

July 18th -  Ruby Lounge Manchester
July 19th - WHITE HEAT @ Madame Jojo's Soho, London
July 20th - Windmill Brixton London
July 21st - Festival de-Affaire, Nijmegen, Holland
July 22nd - La Flèche d’Or, Paris, France
July 23rd - Midi Festival, Hyères, France
July 25th - Padova Radar Festival, Italy 
July 26th - Hana-Bi, Ravenna, Italy
July 29th - Atomic Cafe, Münich, Germany
July 30th - Molotov Bar, Hambourg, Germany

August 2nd - Klub 007, Pragua, Czech Republic
August 4th - Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria
August 9th - Comet, Berlin, Germany
August 10th - Beta, Copenhaguen, Denmark
August 11th - Way Out West Festival, Göteborg, Sweden
August 12th - Pop Up @ Øyafestivalen, Oslo, Norway
August 14th - Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan

Pitchfork : ‘Rising dream pop duo’

Fader : ‘… their relationship blooms outward into their music’

Spin : ‘… Moaning and cooing over twinkly, woozy guitars and stumbly rythms, gazing blankly into the lonely horizon’

Flaunt : ‘It’s leftfiels and crazy and totally fucking perfect. It’s pure and instinctual.’

LA Weekly : ‘The Band has a laid-back, dreamy, ambient sound that reminds you of AM radio pop played on a summer day’

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The Voluntary Butler Scheme: Exclusive free track + video ahead of album release

‘The Grandad Galaxy’ new album released 18^th July 2011 on Split Records

Free track and video

“Many wonderful things have come out of the West Midlands – the balti, Steve Bull, the uniquely mangled vowel sounds of residents of Dudley – and to that list you can add Rob ‘The Voluntary Butler Scheme’ Jones.” GuardianGuide

When Voluntary Butler Scheme recently declared that the intention behind his latest album was “to blend all the different types of music I've been making together,” it seemed like a fairly insurmountable task – this is an act known for producing everything from Motown soul to J-Pop via Mark Mothersbaugh-style poptronica. But Grandad Galaxy is truly a musical cabinet of curiosities, bursting at the seams with strange sounds, melodies, effects and songs. Part instrumental, it follows the direction that the ‘Scheme, aka Dudley-based bedroom-pop architect Rob Jones, has been headed in from debut LP At Breakfast, Dinner, Tea via the recent cut-and-paste Chevreul EP

Get brand new track Yo Yo Star (not featured on the album) for free here:

   Yo-Yo Star by TheVoluntaryButlerScheme