Posts Tagged ‘NME’
1/6/10 News briefs: Ellie Goulding, NME, Atlas Sound, The Knife and Gallows
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Emerging UK singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding has revealed details about her widely anticipated debut album. Titled Lights, the solo artist told NME it’s a bedroom project. “I spent the majority of my time recording this album in my producer Starsmith’s bedroom in Bromley,” she explained. “It is made up of songs that all started on a guitar over a period of about two years. A number of the songs vent romantic victories and failures.”
Speaking of Ellie Goulding and NME, the UK hype monger published its picks for the 20 top artists to look out for in 2010. Aside from Ms. Goulding, the New Musical Express tipped the likes of The Drums, Hurts, Egyptian Hip Hop, Delphic and Washed Out.
Bradford Cox is giving away freebies once again. While it’s a bit late, he’s posted a new studio outtake called “Christmas Synths” up on the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound blog, as well as a New Year’s Eve bootleg.
Yesterday we mentioned that new music from The Knife would be coming and well, it’s here! You can now download a song from their upcoming opera, Tomorrow, In A Year. You can download “Colouring of Pigeons” over at their official site.
And did you know that abrasive hardcore lads Gallows were dropped by their label Warner? Well you do now. The Guardian has posted a nice testament to their awesomeness and how they manipulated their label to become the mighty force they now are.
Tags: Atlas Sound, Ellie Goulding, Gallows, NME, The Knife
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12/8/09 News briefs: DâM-FunK + Nite Jewel, The Big Pink + A Place To Bury Strangers, F**ked Up, Bon Iver and best albums of 2009
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Rising funk ambassador DâM-FunK has teamed up with nocturnal lo-fi mistress Nite Jewel. Together they are Nite Funk, and XLR8R has the premiere track, “Am I Gonna Make It.”
The Big Pink and A Place To Bury Strangers will become tourmates through March and April 2010. The two bands will stop in Vancouver on March 13th, Toronto on March 24th and Montreal on March 25th. Bring your earplugs…
F**ed Up have revealed the gloriously, spirited cover and more details on their star-studded benefit Christmas single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” According to their label Matador, it “should be available from iTunes on [today], and will be released as a 7-inch single with an unreleased F**ked Up song on the b-side in February 2010.”
Earlier this year, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon performed live with Eau Claire, a jazz band from his old high school. Now that performance has become an album. A Decade With Duke will feature a set of Vernon’s songs as well as a set of Duke Ellington standards.
Finally, a number of music sites/mags have unveiled their year end picks for best album. The Quietus chose Sunn O)))’s Monoliths & Dimensions. The NME picked The Horrors’ Primary Colours. Gorilla vs Bear selected Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II. SPIN championed Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. And FACT, well, it’s gonna stretch it out for the rest of the week and reveal the winner on Friday.
Tags: A Decade With Duke, A Place To Bury Strangers, bon iver, DâM-FunK, Do They Know It's Christmas?, Duke Ellington, F**ed Up, FACT, Gorilla vs Bear, justin vernon, matador, Nite Funk, Nite Jewel, NME, SPIN, the big pink, The Quietus, XLR8R
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11/25/09 News briefs: Ariel Pink, SXSW, ATP New York, Animal Collective and NME’s 100 Tracks of the Decade
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Madcap lo-fi whiz Ariel Pink and his Haunted Graffiti have signed to 4AD and will release a new album in 2010.
The first crop of talent confirmed for the 2010 installment of South By Southwest has been announced. Among the hundreds of acts on the lengthy list are Japandroids, Warpaint, Frightened Rabbit, We Are Wolves, Plants and Animals, Timber Timbre and We Are Scientists. Umm, we expect them to announce a lot more in the coming months.
Tickets have now gone on sale for the All Tomorrow’s Parties New York 2010 event. Taking place the weekend of September 3 - 5 at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, performances include Iggy & The Stooges doing Raw Power, Sleep doing Holy Mountain, Mudhoney doing Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles, and The Scientists doing Blood Red River.
Animal Collective have completed their long-awaited “visual album.” Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) said it should be out next year and that the band will also begin writing a new album.
NME has named its 100 Tracks of the Decade, selecting Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love” as the best song of the aughties. MGMT, The Strokes, M.I.A. and OutKast round out the top five.
Tags: 4AD, All Tomorrow's Parties, animal collective, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Beyonce, Iggy & The Stooges, Mudhoney, NME, Panda Bear, Sleep, South By Southwest, sxsw, The Scientists, Tracks of the Decade
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11/17/09 News briefs: Florence and the Machine, Paper Bag Records, NME, The Twilight Sad and The Cribs
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
It’s not uncommon for record companies to reissue an album months later as a bonus/deluxe package containing new goodies. But this news about the re-release of Florence and the Machine’s Lungs is a bit OTT. Her label will release a four-disc version of the singer’s Mercury-nominated debut album, with the bonus discs Live At Abbey Road, Remixes, Covers and Rarities and a Live From Rivoli Ballroom DVD. Is there anything left?
Paper Bag Records is celebrating its seven-year anniversary with a collection of 12 covers to download for free. Among the 12 songs are Winter Gloves doing Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Laura Barrett doing Beck’s Gamma Ray” and most curious of all, CFCF doing OMC’s “How Bizarre.”
The NME has revealed its 100 albums of the decade… but only putting the top 50 up on its website. The five best albums are: 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell, 4. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, 3. Primal Scream XTRMNTR, 2. The Libertines Up The Bracket and drum roll… 1. The Strokes Is This It. (Like you didn’t know that….)
Scottish gloom rockers The Twilight Sad were robbed at gunpoint by two men dressed in fake police uniforms. I’m not sure why they thanked them for the experience, but they could be resorting to sarcasm after such a humiliating experience.
The Cribs have announced they will tour North America with ex-Smiths guitarist and newest member Johnny Marr. The Leeds-based band will play Toronto on January 5th and Vancouver on January 31st.
Tags: Arctic Monkeys, CFCF, Florence and the Machine, Johnny Marr, Laura Barrett, NME, Paper Bag Records, Primal Scream, The Cribs, The Libertines, the strokes, The Twilight Sad, Winter Gloves, yeah yeah yeahs
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