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News: The Magic Numbers reveal UK tour dates
London quartet The Magic Numbers are set to return following a four-year hiatus with the release of their new album ‘Outsiders’, available through the band’s own label Role Play Records on May 11, 2018. Capturing The Magic Numbers with a renewed sense of purpose following several successful side and solo projects, Outsiders will be supported …
News: Los Campesinos! to reissue first two albums on vinyl, plus London O2 Forum date
To commemorate the albums’ 10th birthdays, Los Campesinos! are to reissue remastered versions of their first two albums, ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’ and ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’ on vinyl, CD and download. The reissued albums can be pre-ordered now in deluxe vinyl formats, including a limited edition version featuring updated artwork: https://kontraband.store/loscampesinos/ ‘Hold …
Track: Our Girl – I really like it, plus UK tour dates
If it’s scuzzy but irresistible indie pop your after today, then look no further than ‘I really like it’, the new track from Brighton’s Our Girl, out now via Cannibal Hymns. It was written by frontwoman Soph Nathan, who says of the track “It’s one of our newest songs. I was initially quite nervous to …
News: Arctic Monkeys return with New album and UK tour news – details here
Arctic Monkeys return with their sixth album, entitled ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ on Friday the 11th of May 2018. Produced by James Ford and Alex Turner, the album was recorded in Los Angeles, Paris and London. Their first release since 2013’s ‘AM’ finds the band intent on continuing to explore new musical terrain with …
Track: Kamikaze Girls – Broke, plus European tour dates
Coming to the end of their run supporting The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Leeds duo Kamikaze Girls have announced a sun of European headline tour dates for May, taking long term friends and label-mates Nervus with them. It’s been a productive year for the band following …
Track: Belly – Stars Align, plus UK tour dates
Belly will return with the release of their first full length album in 23 years. The album ‘Dove’ was produced and recorded by band member Tom Gorman (Guitar), alongside longtime friend of the group Paul Q. Kolderie. ‘Dove’ is now available for pre-order and includes instant downloads of “Shiny One” and new track “Stars Align.” It’s …
News: Julien Baker announces Autumn UK and European Headline Tour
Fresh from supporting Belle and Sebastian on their UK tour, Julien Baker has announced a much awaited headline return to the UK and Europe in September. The dates will see the Memphis, Tennessee songwriter play her biggest shows to date, including O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on September 29th, alongside stops in Manchester, Glasgow, …
Track: The Go! Team – The Only Thing New is U Finding Out About it, plus summer tour dates
The Go! Team have shared “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It”, a brand new single following on from their acclaimed new album SEMICIRCLE (out now on Memphis Industries). Band leader Ian Parton explains the influences behind the upbeat and mostly instrumental track: “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About …
Track: Vital Idles – A Premise, plus album news and tour dates
For a conglomerate of art outsiders and aesthetes, Vital Idles are primitive, whimsically brutal. Sculpting a skeleton from a body already lean, there’s a thrilling minimalism that runs through every beat and strum, a sparseness that feeds Jessica Higgins’s surreal, oblique vocal delivery all the nourishment it needs. Along with the announcement of their debut …
News: Miles Kane announces 16 date May-July UK tour
Known for his exhilarating live shows, Miles Kane is back where he belongs, on the road playing 16 unmissable headline shows this summer including two shows at The Moth Club May 28th and 29th. ‘It’s been too long since I’ve been on stage” Miles says. ‘I cannot wait to get up and perform a high energy set with a couple of new bangers thrown in! …