The Shadow Gallery the debut album from Brooklyn quintet PRIMITIVE WEAPONS is out now via Prosthetic Records. The seven churning, expansive tracks on The Shadow Gallery cover an incredible amount of territory for a record under a half-hour in length, each track totally engaging through cool, crushing grooves, empowering swells, and all-out explosions of bludgeoning [...]
In between one-off shows scattered around the world in the past several months THE FLAMING LIPS have still found time to record a series of unique and experimental sessions for an album featuring a diverse cross-section of heavy friends from every corner of the musical cosmos. THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS includes vocal and [...]
Minneapolis-based shoegaze/folk artisans A WHISPER IN THE NOISE are preparing to release their lush new LP, To Forget, via Exile On Mainstream in North America on April 10th. A WHISPER IN THE NOISE approached the songwriting on this album by drawing upon influences not only from other music (referencing Philip Glass, Roger Waters and Arvo [...]
They have been called night songs. Music that takes you on a journey – that’s what the judges of the 3VOOR12 Award 2011 wrote. That prize was for Oasem (pronounced as awesome) by I Am Oak, according to the judges the best Dutch album of that year. Thijs Kuijken from Utrecht wrote the folk album [...]
Andrew Bird’s much-anticipated twelfth album, Break It Yourself, is due March 6 on Mom + Pop. Produced by Bird, the album was recorded at his barn in Western Illinois near the banks of the Mississippi River. The album is available on CD, vinyl, and in a deluxe package including the Here’s What Happened performance film [...]
Blunderbuss by Jack White, set to be released on April 23, 2012 through White’s own label Third Man Records in association with XL Recordings and Columbia Records. The album was written, recorded and produced entirely by Jack White in 2011. The first single from the album, “Love Interruption” (video below) was released on January 30 [...]
Choice of Weapon is the follow up to the critically-acclaimed 2007 release ‘Born Into This’ that the UK’s Mojo magazine called “a wholehearted, utopian and irrefutably exciting record”. Long-time Cult collaborator and producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bush) – who produced one of The Cult’s most successful albums, the platinum-certified ‘Sonic Temple’ – put the finishing [...]
Wonky is the 8th studio album by Orbital due to be released on April 3 (U.S.)/April 1 (international). The album is their first since the Blue Album in 2004 and the first since they reformed in 2008. The album features collaborations from Zola Jesus and Lady Leshurr. Wonky was recorded in a small studio in [...]
Firstly, the band have revisited the 1992-2002 anthology and refreshed it with more material to go some way to complete the picture of the first two decades of Underworld in a 3-disc set. Since releasing ‘Barking’ late in 2010, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde have toured extensively across the globe. Their last UK show was [...]
My God Is Blue by Sebastien Tellier will be released via Record Makers on April 16. My God Is Blue follows his 2008 cut Sexuality, which was produced by Daft Punk’s Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo. MY GOD IS BLUE Tracklisting: 01. Pépito Bleu 02. The Colour Of Your Mind 03. Sedulous 04. Cochon Ville 05. [...]
