First Aid Kit’s first American-recorded album, ‘The Lion’s Roar’ is due out 23 January 2012. Listen to the title track now.

On ‘The Last Hippie Sanding’ three characters are sufficient to trigger a cascade of associations: Goa. Party, Music and counter-culture lifestyle!

★★★ Californian duo Button Willow Locomotive combine a random sounding band name with some smart songwriting on their debut LP, Eight Tracks.

Melanie heads to the Slaughtered Lamb to catch Canada’s ‘Wilderness of Manitoba’ who put on a great show!

★★★★ London sextet Bleeding Heart Narrative are set to release their first EP ‘Bison’ with Brainlove Records. Read our review.

Watch the official video for Bombay Bicycle Club’s ‘Lights Out, Words Gone’ created via the film community on Genero TV.

Josh T. Pearson unveils an acoustic video performance one of his album’s stand-out tracks, ‘Country Dumb’.

Watch the music video for Timber Timbre’s ‘Do I Have Power’, taken from their latest album.

Joseph Topping calls into the award winning Glenfarg Village Folk Club for a solo performance.

Actor Paddy Considine makes his directorial film debut with ‘Tyrannosaur’ which is released this week.

Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny have unveiled the official video for their new single ‘Liliputt’.

The Shivers are coming to the UK for a short blast of headline shows, and notable supports, don’t miss them!