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TweetShare Owen Pallet, formerly known as Final Fantasy and maybe also known for his collaborations/contributions with The Last Shadow Puppets, Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear and others, released his first album as Owen Pallet (Heartland) on January 11th, and since then he’s taken off.  With album reviews that are almost all in the very positives, his [...]

TweetShareHold your breath.  Ready? I first heard of Operator Please when I was watching an episode of Jools Holland that I had tuned in to to see Liam Finn (which turned out to be the best performance of the night).  Stuck between Melody Gardot and The Pentangle were Operator Please.  A young, energetic five-piece with [...]

TweetShareWhilst looking for Jools Holland videos of some of my favourite bands I stumbled upon this one from New Year’s Eve.  There’s something awesome about a tuxedo-clad Dizzee Rascal waxing lyrical (and rocking out) to Smells Like Teen Spirit.

TweetShareFrightened Rabbit have announced a North American tour (which does include Canada), a contest to win tickets to not only see them live in either the U.K. or U.S. with an opportunity to meet them after the gig, but also a new video for “Nothing Like You” from their upcoming and highly anticipated 3rd album [...]

TweetShareThere are bands that have a name which fits their sound before you even hear their music; The Strokes, Animal Collective, De La Soul, The Hives, Kriss Kross. There are bands whose name invokes a particular sound in your head before you hear their music, but upon actually listening to them they sound nothing like [...]

TweetShareIn a three part interview with MIDEM, Radiohead guitarist and all around huge-guy Ed O’Brien once again stands up for file sharers, likening it to the way people exchanged music back in the 80′s with home taping.  Radiohead have previously stood up for the wee thieves before by offering to appear in court as a witness against [...]

TweetShare4AD have just uploaded the new Tindersticks video for “Black Smoke”  to YouTube, their lead single from the new album “Falling Down A Mountain”. Buy Falling Down a Mountain / Download Falling Down A Mountain

TweetShareThe National singer Matt Berninger speaks to Pitchfork about their upcoming album, the process of recording it, why they won’t be calling it “Summer Lovin’ Torture Party”, their appearance in a Google commercial, and their collaboration with Sufjan Stevens. Here are some highlights: Pitchfork: Is the new album finished? Matt Berninger: No, it’s close. We’re scheduled [...]

TweetShareToday’s stories and wee baby news items you might’ve missed: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is thoroughly impressed by the new Vampire Weekend album “Contra” Panda Bear confirms details of his upcoming album Surfer Blood release their first official video for “Swim” The Bravery get their latest album “Stir The Blood” reviewed The Knife unleash their latest “techn-opera” [...]

TweetShare Thanks to Gorilla vs. Bear we now know that Panda Bear (Animal Collective founding member Noah Lennox) will release the follow-up to one of 2007′s best albums “Person Pitch” in September, titled TOMBOY. I still have trouble getting “Good Girl/Carrots” out of my head whenever I play it, so here’s hoping that TOMBOY is [...]

TweetShareHaving (sadly) arrived late to the party I only began hearing about Surfer Blood in the first couple of weeks of 2010. I’ll be reviewing their debut album “Astro Coast” in the coming days and I don’t want to use up all of my big words on this, so just have a watch/listen for yourself: [...]

TweetShareI didn’t have high hopes for The Bravery’s new album “Stir The Blood”. After bursting onto the scene in 2005 with instant comparisons to The Killers, TV and Radio airplay all over the shop, top 10 singles and an equally top ten’ing debut album “The Bravery”, they all but disappeared with a follow up album [...]

TweetShare The Knife are streaming their entire new album, “Tomorrow, In a Year” on their site for free, or you can listen to it below. You can also pre-order the album and download it on February 2nd. Pre-order Tomorrow, In A Year

TweetShareLiam Gallagher has told XFM that his new “solo” band will feature two former members of Oasis (Gem Archer and Andy Bell) and that they hope to have their debut album released by July. “A lot of these songs I wrote before the band [Oasis] split up,” Gallaghertold XFM. “I mean, there’s a few new [...]

TweetShareAwwww meeeyaaannn.  They had to go and get our hopes up by saying back in May 2009 that their album was nearing completion didn’t they?  They couldn’t have just said “Yeah we have an album but we think it’s crap, but you guys might enjoy it, so here you go” and then released it as [...]

TweetShareToday’s stories and wee baby news items you might’ve missed: Olafur Arnalds announces the title for his new album on Twitter.  ”…and they have escaped the weight of darkness” …. “(That’s the title for the new album btw. Who can guess where i got it from? )“ Camera Obscura are added to the already impressive [...]