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

The Pigeon Detectives announce new Single ‘Lost’and Autumn tour dates

Fresh from another storming and sweaty UK and European tour (which included a Police escort to their show in Munich), The Pigeon Detectives announce the release of the second single ‘Lost’. Taken  from their third album UP, GUARDS AND AT ‘EM!  which was recorded over the period of two months in New York City under the watchful eyes of producer Justin Gerrish (who’s last major job was helping to mix Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’).

The band head out on the road again this autumn.

July 30^th - Northern Lights Festival, Aberdeen

Aug 27^th -  Reading Festival 

Aug 28^th -  Leeds Festival

November

Sun 6^th – Newcastle, O2 Academy

Mon 7^th – Hull, Tokyo

Tue 8^th – Preston, 53 Degrees

Thu 10^th – Manchester,  Academy 2 

Fri 11^th – Sheffield, Leadmill

Sat 12^th – Lincoln, Tokyo

Sun 13^th – Leamington Spa, Assembly

Tue 15^th – Birmingham, Academy 2

Thu 17^th – London, Electric Ballroom

Sat 19^th – Brighton, Concorde

Sun 20^th – Southampton, Uni

Mon 21^st – Bristol, Fleece

Thu 24^th  – Leeds, Academy

Fri 25^th – Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms

Sat 26^th – Dundee, Fat Sams