Morrissey airs new ‘Kiss Me A Lot’ video
Sam Esty Raymer-clip looks like it was filmed in a soundcheck.
7th April 2015
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7th April 2015
Bully preview debut album with ‘Trying’
Alicia Bognanno gets honest-to-the-bone for a self-produced track.
7th April 2015
Frank Ocean announces new album, out in July
Third album — thought to be called ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ — is out alongside a publication.
7th April 2015
Sky Ferreira confirms new album title
‘Masochism’ is out later this year, following ‘Night Time, My Time’.
7th April 2015
MS MR release new single, ‘Painted’
NYC duo are readying a second album, out later this year.
7th April 2015
Villagers stream new album ‘Darling Arithmetic’ in full
Conor O’Brien’s third LP is out 13th April via Domino.
7th April 2015
St. Vincent streams full version of ‘Teenage Talk’
Track premiered on ‘Girls’ last month.
7th April 2015
Lykke Li airs new ‘Never Gonna Love Again’ video
‘I Never Learn’ highlight gets a gleaming, firework-covered cut.
7th April 2015
Flume shares Sam Smith ‘Lay Me Down’ remix ahead of European dates
A run of festivals sees the Aussie producer checking in at London’s Lovebox.
7th April 2015
Watch footage from Ride’s live comeback in Oxford
O2 Academy2 hosted the group’s first gig in 20 years.
7th April 2015
Jon Hopkins to score new ‘Hamlet’ production, starring Benedict Cumberbatch
Producer is soundtracking the London Barbican production.
7th April 2015
We Are Scientists get dreamy for ‘Overreacting Under The Sea’ video
Track’s taken from ‘TV en Français, Sous la Mer’, a new Record Store Day release.
7th April 2015
Watch St. Vincent give live debut to ‘Teenage Talk’ on Fallon
Grammy winner’s brand new song debuted on Girls.
7th April 2015
Say Lou Lou take to the desert for ‘Nothing But A Heartbeat’ video
Swedish sisters’ ‘Lucid Dreaming’ video is out this week.
7th April 2015
White Lung to support Refused on US dates
Deap Vally’s Lindsey Troy will be joining in on bass.
7th April 2015
Yak get sinister on new track ‘Smile’
The trio tease their forthcoming ‘Plastic People’ EP with the tantalising ‘Smile’.
7th April 2015
Nate Ruess announces debut solo album, ‘Grand Romantic’
The record is released this June.
7th April 2015
Fall Out Boy to play MTV Movie Awards
Their ‘Immortals’ featured on the soundtrack to Big Hero 6.
7th April 2015
Robert Smith covers The Twilight Sad’s ‘There’s A Girl in the Corner’
The track features as the flip-side to new single, ‘It Never Was The Same’.
7th April 2015
Tom Vek shares previously unheard track, ‘Dirty Water’
Song predates debut album ‘We Have Sound’, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.
7th April 2015
The Antlers to release live album
‘The Antlers in London’ is its dead clever name.
7th April 2015
Watch Jamie T cover Meghan Trainor’s ‘All About That Bass’ for Radio 1
He ain’t no size two — catch Jamie T’s Live Lounge session now.
7th April 2015
Lana Del Rey has been working with Mark Ronson on new material
‘Uptown Funk’ producer is helping out on ‘Honeymoon’.
7th April 2015
Lightning Bolt share video for ‘The Metal East’
The track features on new album, ‘Fantasy Empire’.
7th April 2015
6th April 2015
All Time Low — Future Hearts
3 Stars
They’re never going to reinvent the wheel, but there is something intensely satisfying in their sugary hooks.
6th April 2015
Passion Pit share new track ‘Until We Can’t (Let’s Go)’
Escapist cut previews third LP, ‘Kindred’.
6th April 2015
Desaparecidos announce ‘Payola’, their first album in 13 years
Hear lead track ‘City on the Hill’, previewing the group’s June release.
6th April 2015
David Lynch pulls out of new ‘Twin Peaks’ series
Showtime production is set to continue without the director.
6th April 2015
The Prodigy top Official Album Chart with ‘The Day Is My Enemy’
Sufjan Stevens also scored his first top 10 with ‘Carrie & Lowell’.
6th April 2015
Moving in with Big Ups, as they record their second album
Loren DiBlasi finds the New York band settling in to their Baltimore studio, as they prepare a follow-up to ‘Eighteen Hours of Static’.
6th April 2015
LA Priest: “One of the worst sides of humanity is that we seem to copy each other”
Years on from Late of the Pier’s mind-flipping debut, Sam Dust is making up for lost time on his own terms.
6th April 2015
Metz reveal new track ‘Spit You Out’
The new cut follows ‘Acetate’ in previewing ‘II’.
6th April 2015
5th April 2015
The Wombats — Glitterbug
2 Stars
‘Glitterbug’ is a tired album that lacks invention.
5th April 2015
Alex G - Trick / Rules
4 Stars
‘Trick’ and ‘Rules’ are given the pro treatment.
5th April 2015
Say Lou Lou — Lucid Dreaming
4 Stars
The album’s eleven tracks emanate a hazy organic warmth.
5th April 2015
Nadine Shah — Fast Food
4 Stars
Sweet, sour, angry, reflective.
5th April 2015
Are Brand New finally sending out the lyric books for ‘The Devil and God…’
The Long Island band are up to something, again
5th April 2015
Live At Leeds 2015
Local pride and revelatory sets share the spoils at the new music-centric fest, with highlights coming from The Cribs, Black Honey, Yak and The Magic Gang.
5th April 2015
Tame Impala debut new single ‘Cause I’m A Man’, name album ‘Currents’
The title of the band’s third album is revealed alongside the first official single.
5th April 2015
Tame Impala — ‘Cause I’m A Man
If Tame Impala were already champions of direct, unorthodox pop, they’ve just established a new elite league.
5th April 2015
Haim’s old family band Rockenhaim reunites live in West Hollywood
Haim were joined onstage by their parents, Laura Marling, Ed Roste of Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, Jenny Lewis, and Ke$ha.
5th April 2015
4th April 2015
Lapalux — Lustmore
3 Stars
‘Lustmore’ is beautifully complex, but subtly so.
4th April 2015
San Cisco - Gracetown
2 Stars
The songs are sweet and the melodies are there, but the record can seem a little two-paced.
4th April 2015
Doldrums — The Air Conditioned Nightmare
4 Stars
A slightly more subdued affair, though there’s plenty of melodies within the chaos.
4th April 2015
Waxahatchee — Ivy Tripp
4 Stars
Incredible songs, performed with honesty and passion.
4th April 2015
Eminem takes to lyric website Genius to discuss his songs
He talks critics, success and being a scumbag in a series of annotations.
4th April 2015
There’s a Waxahatchee-inspired ice cream
Little Baby’s Ice Cream celebrates the release of ‘Ivy Tripp’ with a signature flavour.
4th April 2015
Watch The Smashing Pumpkins perform ‘Drum and Fife’ on The Tonight Show
Members of RATM and The Killers help William Corgan perform the single.
4th April 2015
Tom DeLonge shares video for ‘New World’
The song is the first track from his upcoming solo album, ‘To The Stars…’
4th April 2015
Gallows share ‘Leviathan Rot’
The track is the latest cut to be taken from their upcoming album, ‘Desolation Sounds’.
4th April 2015
Wolf Alice shred nerves with confetti-covered Shepherd’s Bush Empire show
Few things will top Wolf Alice’s Shepherd’s Bush triumph, but the best is yet to come.
4th April 2015
This Week In New Music (4th April 2015)
DIY and Neu round-up the best new discoveries, from Anna B Savage to Show Me The Body.
4th April 2015
Morrissey plots US tour
The seventeen date run includes shows with Blondie and Amanda Palmer.
4th April 2015
3rd April 2015
East India Youth — Culture of Volume
4 Stars
It’s the strongest Doyle’s sounded as a songwriter, even if he’s still finding his feet.
3rd April 2015
Toro Y Moi — What For?
3 Stars
An homage to golden days.
3rd April 2015
Young Fathers — White Men Are Black Men Too
4 Stars
Young Fathers have struck gold on something more rewarding than its predecessor.
3rd April 2015
Brawlers – Romantic Errors of Our Youth
4 Stars
Brawlers have built a debut album that doesn’t put a foot wrong.
3rd April 2015
Tracks: The National, Hot Chip, & More
The DIY writers pick out the biggest and best new tracks of the last week.
3rd April 2015
Metz showcase new album tracks at frenzied London gig
The bigger the target, the harder the bodies fling themselves into it.
3rd April 2015
Blur, Laura Marling, The Vaccines to play first in a new series of Jools Holland
‘Later…’ will also host Natalie Prass and Songhoy Blues for its 14th April show.
3rd April 2015
Watch Beck perform, play hide-and-seek on The Late Late Show
Grammy winner played the song in a stranger’s house.
3rd April 2015
Stanley Donwood to display Radiohead, Thom Yorke artwork in new exhibition
Artist is bringing together original pieces and previously-unseen work in Sydney.
3rd April 2015
2nd April 2015
Drenge — Undertow
5 Stars
A band finding their feet before taking to the skies.
2nd April 2015
Watch the first trailer for Amy Winehouse documentary, ‘AMY’
Two-hour film features unseen footage of the star.
2nd April 2015
Glasgow’s Arches venue saved from closure
Glasgow City Council rejects the police order, deeming it “unlawful”
2nd April 2015
Green Day plot first gig in over a year
The band will appear at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH this month.
2nd April 2015
Prinzhorn Dance School announce new album, ‘Home Economics’
Hear ‘Reign’ from the six-track LP, too.
2nd April 2015
Summer Camp confirm ‘Bad Love’ album details, share title track
The record is released at the end of May.
2nd April 2015
Mates of State announce new EP, ‘You’re Going To Make It’
It’ll be out this June.
2nd April 2015
Watch Death Cab For Cutie play ‘Black Sun’ on Kimmel
New album ‘Kintsugi’ is out now.
2nd April 2015
Kendrick Lamar was in the studio with Prince recently
Collaboration didn’t forge any songs, but Kendrick cites Prince as a big inspiration.
2nd April 2015
Watch Rihanna prank Jimmy Kimmel with ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’
RiRi invaded the host’s house for an early-rise performance.
2nd April 2015
Kasabian, Ellie Goulding join the bill for Sziget Festival
Hungarian fest is headlined by Florence + The Machine and Alt‑J.
2nd April 2015
Waxahatchee unveils ‘Under a Rock’ video
Basement recordings star Katie and Alison Crutchfield.
2nd April 2015
Sia completes Maddie Ziegler-starring trilogy with ‘Big Girls Cry’
Dance sensation is centre stage in this new clip.
2nd April 2015
Marina and the Diamonds shares her view on TIDAL: “Why are all these people in it? Because of money”
DIY cover star gives direct view on the service in a new interview.
2nd April 2015
Spring King get paranoid for new ‘They’re Coming After You’ track
Tarek Musa and co.’s EP of the same name is out this April.
2nd April 2015
Blur unveil new ‘Lonesome Street’ video
Watch the latest clip to arrive from ‘The Magic Whip’.
2nd April 2015
Best Coast perform in petal-scattered paradise for ‘Heaven Sent’ video
Watch the LA duo preview new album ‘California Nights’.
2nd April 2015
XL Recordings release Gil Scott-Heron album, ‘Nothing New’
A digital version of the album is available following the RSD14 release.
2nd April 2015
Slaves, The Magic Gang, Spring King to play DIY Presents Stage for Live At Leeds
We Were Promised Jetpacks, Black Honey & more huddle into the Brudenell Social Club.
2nd April 2015
Panic! At The Disco’s Spencer Smith officially leaves the band
Drummer has been on a leave of absence since 2013.
2nd April 2015
Hot Chip — Need You Now
For all the heavy self-discovery, Hot Chip have masterfully kept every moment light.
2nd April 2015
Sky Ferreira, Karen O and other artists host David Lynch tribute concert
The night of celebrations came as the renowned director, actor, and musician’s non-profit foundation turned ten years old.
2nd April 2015
Darkstar and Wild Beasts’ Hayden Thorpe cover Paul McCartney’s ‘Temporary Secretary’
And it’s all thanks to Kanye and Rihanna giving breakthrough artist Paul McCartney his big break.…
2nd April 2015
The National - Sunshine on my Back
This gives few genuine pointers as to what’s truly next from the band, but what a lovely surprise all the same.
2nd April 2015
Iron & Wine joins forces with Band of Horses for covers album
Sam Beam and Ben Bridwell will be taking on the likes of Spiritualized, Talking Heads and Sade.
2nd April 2015
Stream Lapalux’s new album ‘Lustmore’ in full now
Stuart Howard’s second release, out on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, is streaming a few days ahead of release.
2nd April 2015
Speedy Ortiz reveal new track ‘Puffer’
The cut is the third track to surface from the band’s forthcoming album ‘Foil Deer’
2nd April 2015
Hear East India Youth play BBC Radio 6 Music session
William Doyle spoke to Lauren Laverne about new album ‘Culture of Volume’.
2nd April 2015
Wolf Alice ice skate, chair-spin and bowl for new European tour video
Catch the group’s travels so far, as they await a sold out Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
2nd April 2015
Latest Third Man Vault features new/old White Stripes recording
A Loretta Lynn cover was once planned to back ‘Jolene’.
2nd April 2015
SBTRKT shares new ‘Relics’ track ft. Tev’n
Hear the fifth new track in a week from Aaron Jerome.
2nd April 2015
Killer Mike and MNDR team up for ‘Lock & Load’
Track appears on the Grand Theft Auto V‑inspired ‘Welcome to Los Santos’ comp.
2nd April 2015
Florence Welch, Foals, Laura Marling donate items to London jumble sale
Oxfam-led event takes place this May, with Hot Chip and Mumofrd & Sons also donating items.
2nd April 2015
David Bowie to share new songs in co-written stage show based on ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’
Material old and new will feature in ‘Lazarus’.
2nd April 2015
Posters and trailer unveiled for N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton
The film will be released in UK cinemas on 14th August.
2nd April 2015
Beyoncé hints at new work with Jay Z on Instagram
Video post features a preview of a duet between the couple
2nd April 2015
The National share unreleased track, ‘Sunshine On My Back’
The track is an instant-grat with the ‘Mistaken For Strangers’ film.
2nd April 2015
Anna B Savage shares new single, ‘II’
London-based artist’s new track follows debut ‘I’.
2nd April 2015