Spotting ‘the next big thing’ is a tricky and treacherous business that primarily revolves around assertion of one’s own tastes, shouting ‘I’m cooler than you’ louder than the next person and falling…
Manchester-based Modern Love have nailed it again with a made-from-girders heavyweight release by label boss Miles. Clangs of metal, hisses of steam, eerily droning synths and hefty subterranean bass collide…
A video for the first single off Julia Holter’s upcoming LP ‘Loud City Song’ has just been released and is available to stream below. It’s a mysterious and meandering piece,…
If you’ve got a spare 5 minutes this afternoon make sure you check out Logan Owlbeemoth’s glowing and glowering video for Not Not Fun synth veteran Dylan Ettinger’s lurching and…
Check out the eye-watering new geometric/stroboscopic video by Morgan Beringer for London afro-punk-jazz-jump-shout-bang six-piece Melt Yourself Down’s single ‘Fix My Life’. It’s a riotously raucous affair that captures the supercharged…
2013’s high musical calibre has been strengthened further by another sterling week of exciting new releases and finely crafted videos. The range is really pretty stunning, with noteworthy offerings coming…
Carrying on our Eastern European theme (actually not entirely sure we ever pointed out that yesterday’s subject – Střed Světa – was from the Czech Republic, but hey-ho) here’s a brand…
We normally try to not pilfer directly from other sites, but after discovering perennial fave Brenna Murphy’s video for the opening track on Střed Světa’s January-released album – along with a…
There’s a great selection of new tracks out this week, all here in one handy playlist to help you through Friday afternoon and/or soundtrack your weekend wanderings. To start off…
There’s a few upside down things in this week’s FF mix; Sufjan Stevens has abandoned his folky space jams to sing hushed backing vocals on a new Chris Schlarb track,…
We’ve been pretty busy with various other projects this week (ending world hunger, watching videos of cats riding hoovers, marvelling at Ringo Starr’s inability to tweet ‘peace and love’) so…
This week we have mostly been listening to Laurel Halo. The first track from her new EP landed on Monday and sees her treading the restlessly percussive, pitch-shifting paths of…
If you’re in London this Saturday and Sunday you should get yourself down to Swingfest, a two day festival taking place at the Scala in Kings Cross. Hosted by the…
Happy Found Friday. First up, get stuck into our pick of this week’s Soundcloud finds, including a couple of bangers from Happa and Stave, another track from the imminent Mount…
Comfortably one of the most promising new labels around, Opal Tapes have released a flurry of genre-defying, off-kilter releases from young electronic producers like perennial favourite Huerco S., IVVVO, Basic…
Is the secretive, drip-fed unveiling of material from Colin Stetson’s new LP a carefully orchestrated PR triumph or a happy accident? Either way, the wait is beginning to weigh rather…
Just a little one for your bookmarks here – ambient iconoclast Leyland Kirby has put up a whole load of old material on Soundcloud for your perusal. As well as…
Carrying on from yesterday’s Flaming Lips premiere, the week has maintained its high level of musical excitement and excellence with a preview of The Haxan Cloak’s new LP, ‘Excavation’. We…
‘The Terror’, the new album by The Flaming Lips, was released today and, unsurprisingly, is a cracker. Maintaining the same hazy, Ummagumma-era Pink Floyd, psychedelic mood as 2009’s richly rewarding…
It seems the post-SXSW release glut shows no sign of abating and that’s reflected in the embarrassment of riches in this week’s Soundcloud set. The past two weeks have yielded…
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