ULTERIOR: Debut album + Free download

DEBUT ALBUM: 'WILD IN WILDLIFE'

RECORD LABEL: SPEED RECORDS

RELEASE DATE: 7TH MARCH 2011 (CD + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

LAUNCH PARTY: 9TH MARCH 2011 (HOXTON SQUARE BAR & KITCHEN)
UK TOUR: MARCH

FINALLY Ulterior's long-awaited debut album is to be released on March 7th 2011 with a string of live dates planned across Europe and the UK and an exclusive album launch show at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London on Wednesday the 9th of March, with support from the hotly tipped Islington Boys Club and the ever ethereal Neurotic Mass Movement.

Wild In Wildlife' effortlessly wears its references on its sleeve. It is an unmistakable stadium sound synthesis that sonically falls somewhere between Simple Minds, The Sisters Of Mercy and Billy Idol… a shimmering noise-noir-pop production all set to their distinct brand of hypnotic chrome overdrive.

Recorded and mixed by long serving band producer Zlaya Hadzic (Sonic Youth / Tortoise) with two tracks also mixed by Robert Harder (Whitey / Brian Eno / Kylie) the end result is arguably their finest hour. Seductive hooks and vocals shine clearly amid the storm, all of which is set to a vicious mechanoid foundation of synthesizers and drum machines; a move that has already set Ulterior crucially apart from their contemporaries.

Free Download'Big City Black Rain' : www.ulteriorlondon.com

The album is to be released on Speed Records and will be available through both Rough Trade and online through the band's brand new website -www.ulteriorlondon.com. A signed, limited edition hand-silk-screened print comes with the pre-ordered CD and a new tee-shirt design issued to coincide with the album release.

The sleeve artwork is an adaptation of the English contemporary artist and painter and founder of the Neomodern group - Guy Denning's 'Where's Your Famous Golden Touch'.

2011 TOUR DATES
- MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED -

9th March - London, Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
10th March - Brighton, The Hope
11th March - Leeds, The Common Place
13th March - Nottingham, The Bodega Social

1st April - Berlin, NBI - Germany
2nd April - Halle, VL - Germany

The Voluntary Butler Scheme: New track and free Dan Le Sac remix

Just over a year after his debut album, The Voluntary Butler Scheme – aka Dudley-based bedroom pop architect Rob Jones – is back with a new sound and a new four-track EP comprising two vocal songs, two instrumentals and around about a million ideas.

Here is a first little taster, brand new track "To The Height of a Frisbee"

To The Height Of A Frisbee by Voluntary Butler Scheme

The amazing Dan Le Sac has done a great remix of it, and you can DOWNLOAD IT FREE here:

To the Height of a Frisbee (Dan Le Sac remix) by Voluntary Butler Scheme

And here's, a video to go with it created by Amercian fan Sam Fathallah:



Since making the first album, The Voluntary Butler Scheme have toured the UK with Adam Green and signed a US deal with influential indie Park The Van. Jones has seen his tracks pop up in such varied places as Grey's Anatomy, a Dell ad, Eastenders and, er, Countryfile.

The EP is a taster of the next Voluntary Butler Scheme album, which will be a mix of instrumental and vocal tracks. For someone with such wildly far-ranging influences and outputs, Jones bravely says his aim for the album is “to blend all the different types of music I've been making together.”


http://thevoluntarybutlerscheme.bandcamp.com/

Joan As Police Woman is Nervous

On April 11th Joan As Police Woman releases a new single from her rapturously received third album The Deep Field (Play It Again Sam).

New single, Nervous concerns what Joan calls "the freedom to admit you're vulnerable and anxious," in a new-found relationship, rather than just projecting bravado.

Some artists play a part, act stuff out, and like to hide behind imagery. That's fine, but it's not for everyone. Some, like Joan, want to communicate direct, to tell the truth, and share the honesty. To honour themselves and their audience. It may be cliché to read about it but wonderful to experience.



Nervous begins with a taut drum intro, Moog bass, surging female back-ups and flaming guitar coda. Joan says she was smitten by Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, Bowie, Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder too, influences all apparent on her new single.

Q 4 stars - Joan Wasser has never sounded so winning as on Nervous, a celebration of the joys of new love

Uncut - Nervous has a gloriously uplifting chorus

Joan As Police Woman performs for Balcony TV in Brighton

The Pigeon Detectives: New album and UK tour

The Pigeon Detectives are pleased to announce details of a new single, a new album and their first UK headline shows since selling out London's Alexandra Palace at  end of 2008. In the interim, the band took leave before recharging and have spent the past year writing and demoing in New York before recording in earnest  in the Autumn of 2010.

The entire experience has been a new one for the quintet from Leeds whose two previous albums  - which have now sold in excess of  half a million copies in the UK , were written and recorded  on home turf and the first fruits of which will be the brand new single 'Done In Secret' .

Recorded at Brooklyn Recording Company with Justin Gerrish taking on production and mixing duties, the album 'UP,GUARDS AND AT 'EM!'' will be released on 4th April through Dance To The Radio and will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally via all usual outlets. The full tracklisting:



1. 'She Wants Me'            

2. 'Lost'                

3. 'What Can I Say?'        

4. 'Need To Know This'        

5. 'Done In Secret'            

6. 'What You Gonna Do ?'

7. 'Turn Out The Lights'

8. 'Through The Door'

9. 'Go At It Completely'

10. 'I Don't Know You'

For a sneak preview of the new album, watch footage of the band recording the album in NYC and listen to album track "She Wants Me" here:


The track is also streamed here:
She Wants Me by The Pigeon Detectives


Meanwhile the band have also announced details of  their first  headlining UK shows of 2011 and will  be airing tracks off the new album when they appear as follows:
                        

March 28th - MIDDLESBOROUGH - Empire        

March 29th - GLASGOW - ABC        

March 30th - MANCHESTER - Ritz    

March 31st - LIVERPOOL    - Academy    

April 2nd - BIRMINGHAM - Institute

April 3rd - OXFORD - Academy

April 4th - NORWICH - UEA    

April 6th - LONDON - Shepherds Bush Empire    

April 8th - BOURNEMOUTH - Old Fire Station        

April 9th - PORTSMOUTH - Wedgewood Rooms

April 10th - BRISTOL - Trinity

April 11th - COVENTRY - Kasbah

April 12th - LEEDS    - Metro University

Joan as Police Woman - The Magic

Introducing Holy Coves

From the coast of North Wales Holy Coves unleash The Droner EP on February 14th, 2011; a gut busting, snarling blues influenced rock outing. Belying their Holyhead heritage, it's a debut fit to fill city stadiums. Is it early Smashing Pumpkins, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's oil-slick grooves? Perhaps, but then it's also wholly new.

Atmospherics akin to Black Angels are as audible on the record as when the Coves take to the stage. Which is no surprise really, considering the EP was recorded at Bryn Derwen Studios, with the foothills of Snowdonia looming large over the epic landscape. This is country as big as the band's sound, so there's no more fitting a setting for these mountainous tracks to have been made in.

It was here the band developed a strong bond with producer David Wrench (Bat For Lashes, British Sea Power, Race Horses), himself a member of Julian Cope's The Black Sheep. After being involved with the band since their early demos, it made sense that the musician-cum-studio wizard had his deft hand in the creation of Holy Coves' first official release; the next chapter of a story gaining rapid momentum.

DOWNLOAD/STREAM EP TRACK 'LET'S GO' HERE:

01 Let's Go by Holy Coves

Holy Coves will be touring the UK in January/ February. Here are full dates:

29 Jan - Rascals, Bangor

03 Feb - Central Station. Wrexham

04 Feb - Mad Ferret, Preston

05 Feb - Stanley Theatre @ Liverpool Guild of Students, Liverpool

06 Feb - Night and Day, Manchester

07 Feb - The Old Bell, Derby

08 Feb - The Flapper, Birmingham

09 Feb - Harry's Bar, Stoke-on-Trent

10 Feb - Buffalo Bar, Cardiff

11 Feb - Casbah, Coventry

12 Feb - The Musician, Leicester

13 Feb - Dublin Castle, London

18 Feb - Telfords Warehouse, Chester

26 feb - Y Fricsan, Cwm-y-Glo