Beirut is set to embark on its first international tour in over four years in support of ‘The Rip Tide’. Few predicted the inward journey Condon has achieved on ‘The Rip Tide’, an album with the most introspective and memorable songs of his young career. Listen to the full album preview.
Ben Howard announces details of a second London date as part of his UK and Ireland headline tour in October and November. Plus watch his new video Every Kingdom album teaser.
Hotfooting from their hugely successful tour of the USA and Canada, The Outside Track return to UK to launch their first major tour of UK to support their critically acclaimed CD, Curious Things Given Wings.
A road closure due to late-running engineering work threatens to delay festival-goers attending Fairport’s Cropredy Convention festival. The event takes place on 11, 12 and 13 August and the organisers have recently announced a traffic management plan to minimise disruption.
Chamberlin is the biggest band from Vermont that no one there has ever really heard of. As their debut album Bitter Blood drops, the eight-month-old act finds themselves criss-crossing the country in the midst of national tours, having played but a handful of shows in their home state.
There is a great co-ordinated effort taking place at cleaning up the riot aftermath. Twitter is being used to get volunteers in the right places, the image above shows volunteers turning up with brooms and buckets to help out.
A three story warehouse owned by Sony DADC and based in Enfield went up in flames last night during the continued London riots. The PIAS Group which holds stock there is one of the main distributors for independent record labels in the UK.
Blind Atlas hail from Denver and disparate points around the U.K. and came together in the bohemian suburbs of south Manchester. Combining the traditional melancholy of the classic Northern sound with the boozy soul of American alternative country.
Cloud Seeding is a music project by guitarist Kevin Serra (This Ascension, Lot 49.) The project was conceived as a space for collaboration to showcase vocalists he admires. For the first single, Serra worked with Boston-based singer Marissa Nadler. Download it now.
PJ Harvey is set to play at London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 30th. Tickets for the show go on-sale on Friday August 12th. This will be PJ Harvey’s first appearance at this historic venue, following shows in Glasgow and Manchester next month, and further recently announced European dates.
Richmond Fontaine’s frontman, Willy Vlautin, has already established his credible talents as a songwriter and novelist. It therefore seems inevitable that the two creative ends would eventually intertwine. The High Country, does just that by becoming a song-novel.
