Fresh off a hugely successful stint supporting Panic! At The Disco and already heralded by Kerrang! magazine as “essentially Queen if every single member was Freddie Mercury”, everyone's favourite ungooglable band ME, have just completed their support to Twin Atlantic on their UK tour. The band's debut mini-album Another Story High is currently available via i-Tunes whilst the band's next single – the impossibly good steam punk epic Westward Backwards - is due out on May 28th...also check out the stellar Scott Hendy remix of Like A Fox!
To celebrate the release of the brand new the Cribs album 'In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull' on May 7th, we have teamed up with our good friends at Propaganda to run a series of launch parties at their nights across the UK this week! The album, which includes the current dancefloor shakers Chi-Town and Come On Be A No-One is causing a mass stir so if you are local, go check out one of the nights...full listing inside.
The propulsive singles “Family” and “Animals” have already stormed the radio airwaves and hooked listeners, and now, Irish quartet The Cast of Cheers are getting ready to unleash their first proper album, released June 18th on School Boy Error/ Co-operative Music.
Of course, it would be a bit of a misnomer to call this their debut – that would be “Chariot”, the album the Irish quartet recorded themselves in 3 days, which they subsequently put up on BandCamp for free. It received over 150,000 downloads and netted them a nomination at the Choice Music Awards, sending their star into rapid ascendance – their next single, the blistering “Family” saw the band championed by the influential likes of Zane Lowe, Fearne Cotton, Huw Stephens and more, while their follow-up single “Animals”, due out this month, has neatly repeated the same trick.
TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). TOY’s musical influences incorporate a wide range of genres including punk, psychedelia, krautrock, post rock to name a few and they explore experimental recording techniques in the studio, and are set to release their new single Motoring through Heavenly on 9th April.
Having whetted the appetite with ‘Chi-Town’,a whirlwind four date live excursion and the imminence of a fifth album ‘In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull’,The Cribs are pleased to announce the arrival of a brand new single. Lifted from the forthcoming album ‘Come On, Be A No-One’ has already proven to be a new highlight in the band’s ever expansive live set and sees The Cribs having reverted back to trio status in confident form.
After releasing a couple of low-key singles in the latter half of 2011, Theme Park are ready to stamp their mark all over 2012 with this first release on Transgressive Records in April. ‘2 Hours’ will be available on 7” & download and will be backed by ‘Morning Crimes’. Upping the game with this Luke Smith-produced single, ‘2 Hours’ is a sonic electronic exploration in to the heartfelt emotions of songwriter and lead singer, Miles Haughton.
CITIZENS! have announced details of the release of their new single, Reptile through Kitsuné on Monday March 19th 2012.The single follows their debut release, True Romance in December 2011 and is taken from their debut album which is due in the summer of this year.
Their free album “Chariot”, which they recorded in 3 days, has racked up over 150,000 downloads on BandCamp, they got nominated at the Choice Music Awards and, just last week, their upcoming single “Family” was played twice by Zane Lowe on his Radio 1 show. There is little doubt, therefore, that the Irish quartet of The Cast of Cheers are a band in rapid ascent.
“Family” is the first taster from their debut album proper...
‘Starting To Fly’ is the new single from Pint Shot Riot released on March 26th. Mixed by Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian) the single also features remixes from fellow Coventry music maker and DJ Paul Morrell.
The song is the tale of how someone falls from glory, respect and normality into the depths of addiction. In the gritty video, lead singer Rocket plays out this scenario to a shocking end. ‘Starting To Fly’ was the last song written and recorded for the acclaimed debut album ‘Spell It Out’ and is the stepping stone to the next album which is already work in progress.
Two of ME - or should that be us? - met at a spiritualist nudist festival so it’s hardly surprising that the debut single by ME should be called Naked. Naked is mini rock opera on the grandest of scales and a song that asks whether life, the universe and everything must always be like this. The band cite The Beatles, The Mars Volta and Led Zeppelin as influences but if we threw Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Rachmaninof and Queen in there you’d start to get scared – so we won’t. Instead we’ll just suggest that ME are one of the most exciting new rock bands to appear this side of the millennium.
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