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Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth announce album ‘Utopian Ashes’ and share ‘Remember We Were Lovers’
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth have announced their new collaborative album ‘Utopian Ashes’ – you can listen to the forthcoming record’s lead single ‘Remember We Were Lovers’ below. The Primal Scream frontman and the Savages vocalist and solo artist, who first met in 2015 before later convening in Paris in 2017 to write and record together, have teamed up for the project, with the joint album set for release on July 2. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Jehnny Beth The album features Beth’s musical partner Johnny Hostile (who plays bass on the record) as well as three members...
Kang Daniel reveals tracklist for upcoming mini-album ‘Yellow’
Kang Daniel has dropped the complete tracklist for his upcoming fourth mini-album ‘Yellow’. READ MORE: IU – ‘LILAC’ review: a near-perfect, wide-ranging pop gem from K-pop’s darling The record comprises five tracks, including title track ‘Antidote’ and pre-release single ‘Paranoia’. This comeback, which concludes the soloist’s ‘Color’ trilogy following EPs ‘Cyan’ and ‘Magenta’ from 2020, is slated to come out on April 13. For the project, Kang worked with rappers Omega Sapien and Wonstein for the tracks ‘Misunderstood’ and ‘Save U’, respectively. Meanwhile, Anthony Russo, whom the idol collaborated with for ‘State Of Wonder’ earlier this year, also assisted...
Squid to take part in live-to-vinyl recording challenge to launch Record Store Day 2021
Squid will take part in a special vinyl recording challenge next week to help launch Record Store Day 2021. This year’s annual celebration of vinyl and record stores will take place in the UK over two dates, June 12 and July 17. READ MORE: Squid: “I don’t think people take us seriously enough to think we’re ‘pretentious’” Squid will complete their live-to-vinyl recording challenge on April 7 at Metropolis Studios in London, where they will record two new songs onto a two-track EP live and direct to vinyl – with the band needing to get the recording right first...
IDLES confirm details of two outdoor shows for summer 2021
IDLES have confirmed their live return this summer, with the band set to play two separate shows on September 3. The Bristol punks will perform a special afternoon set at the inaugural edition of London’s Wide Awake festival, before travelling back to their native city for a huge homecoming show at Clifton Downs. READ MORE: IDLES: “Loads of people don’t fucking like us” Tickets for Wide Awake Festival are currently available, while the Bristol show will go on general sale from 9AM on Friday (April 2). Advertisement “We can’t wait to see you all again,” said IDLES. “It’s been too...
Calvin Harris says NFTs “can completely revolutionise the music industry”
Calvin Harris has spoken out in praise of the ongoing Non-Fungible Token (NFT) craze, saying that it has the potential to “completely revolutionise the music industry”. Sales of the cryptocurrency asset, which proves ownership of a piece of digital content, have taken the industry by storm already this year, with the likes of Kings of Leon, Aphex Twin and Gorillaz all selling NFTs. READ MORE: WTF is an NFT? Kings Of Leon’s weird non-fungible token thing – explained! Harris has collaborated with the music video director Emil Nava on a collection of NFT artworks called ‘Technofish’, which are currently...
My Bloody Valentine sign with Domino Records and release back catalogue on streaming services
My Bloody Valentine have signed with Domino Records, which has finally released the band’s entire official catalogue to streaming services. The indie icons will also release new physical editions of each release on May 21, with 1988’s ‘Isn’t Anything’ and 1991’s’ Loveless’ being mastered fully from analog for deluxe LPs and also mastered from new hi-res uncompressed digital sources for standard LPs. It marks the first time ever that each record has been made widely available, with fans also able to take in fully analog cuts of 2013’s ‘m b v’ on deluxe and standard LPs. The new catalogue...
Waterparks release raucous new single ‘Numb’ from upcoming album ‘Greatest Hits’
Waterparks have shared their second single of 2021, ‘Numb’. READ MORE: Waterparks are the thoroughly modern punk boyband you didn’t know you needed The raucous track, released on Monday (March 29), follows on from February’s ‘Snow Globe’ and last September’s ‘Lowkey As Hell’. All three songs are set to appear on ‘Greatest Hits’, the band’s fourth studio album. Frontman Awsten Knight wrote the song, and also served as its co-producer alongside Zakk Cervini. The two co-produced the entire album, with Cervini having previously worked on the band’s 2019 album ‘Fandom’. An official music video is scheduled to premiere at...
Dry Cleaning perform in a carpet shop in new ‘Unsmart Lady’ music video
Dry Cleaning have shared a music video for ‘Unsmart Lady’, the third single from their debut album, ‘New Long Leg’. READ MORE: Dry Cleaning: the London group uniting murky post-punk, Meghan Markle and really weird YouTube comments ‘Unsmart Lady’ was premiered during the band’s performance for BBC’s virtual Radio 6 Music Festival prior to the official release of its studio version. It follows the release of last year’s ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ and February’s ‘Strong Feelings’. The single is the final to be lifted from the album prior to its release this Friday (April 2). The band have also shared an...
New Amy Winehouse film ’10 Years On’ to air on BBC
A new Amy Winehouse film is set to air on BBC Two, marking 10 years since the singer’s death. Amy Winehouse: 10 Years On has been commissioned by BBC Two and BBC Music to explore Winehouse through the people who knew her best. READ MORE: The secret to a brilliant posthumous album? Get started while you can According to a press release the film will be “shining a light on parts of her life that have, to date, not been heard about”. Advertisement The film is set to be told primarily from the perspective of Winehouse’s mother, Janis, whose...Recent Posts
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