Archive for January, 2011

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Swedish House Mafia Announce Line Up for Masquerade Motel Miami

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Featuring Performances by:

Swedish House Mafia

(Axwell / Steve Angello / Sebastian Ingrosso)

MIAMI EXCLUSIVE

Motel Guests to include:

A Trak

AN21

Armand van Helden

Calvin Harris

Dirty South

Kim Fai

Max Vangeli

Pete Tong

And introducing Third Party and Thomas Gold

For more information visit the hotel:

http://www.swedishhousemafia.com/masquerade-motel/

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Fans have come to expect nothing but the very best from Swedish House Mafia and when the Swedish trio announced their own Miami mega event on 26th March 2011 – dubbed Masquerade Motel Miami – tickets were gobbled up at a feverish pace. In [...]

ALOE BLACC announces UK tour dates

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Aloe Blacc

UK Tour Announced

Blacc signs to Epic (UK) / Single coming soon

“The recession’s soul voice of reason…A real discovery” Guardian

“A modern classic…Combines hard social commentary with a vocal hook and piano riff straight out of the Marvin Gaye book”Dazed & Confused

“Could hardly be more contemporary…blissful” Mojo ****

“Strikingly fresh and full of vim” NME, 8/10

Aloe Blacc has announced details of an intimate UK headline tour this spring. He will play The Library at Birmingham’s HMV Institute on April [...]

Chas ‘n’ Dave Add Third Date To Almost Sold Out Gigs

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STILL RABBIT, RABBITING ON – CHAS ‘n’ DAVE RETURN FOR FINAL FAREWELL

THIRD LONDON DATE ADDED TO LONDON’S INDIG02 DUE TO EXCEPTIONAL HIGH DEMAND

10TH & 11TH MARCH, AND NOW 18TH APRIL 2011 AT INDIG02

LONDON, 30TH JANUARY 2011: ‘Rockney’ duo Chas ‘n’ Dave announce a third date to their run of final tour shows at London’s Indig02. They’ve now added Monday 18th April, in addition to 10th & 11th March 2011.

There [...]

FLEET FOXES announce second album ‘Helplessness Blues’ and download new song

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On 2nd May 2011 FLEET FOXES will release “Helplessness Blues”, the much-anticipated follow up to their 2008 self-titled debut, on Bella Union records (Sub Pop in the US). The release of the twelve-track album will coincide with the band’s first North American tour dates since August 09 and will be followed by a string of UK and European tour dates. The tour will begin in Vancouver on 30th April and end inLondon. Fleet Foxes have made the title-track of the album available for download now from [...]

The View announce UK Tour

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UK Tour Announced

“[Kyle] Falconer is one of the finest songwriters in British music today” – Q Magazine

“An album of trademarks and triumphs” – NME
The View have announced details of a huge UK tour for April. The band, who release new single ‘Grace’ on Monday 7th March and their new, Youth-produced album ‘Bread And Circuses’ on the 14th March, start in their hometown Dundee on the 4th April. The tour also includes a headline show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London.

The band also play [...]

Anathema: UK tour to start Feb 9th and new video content

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www.anathema.ws /  www.myspace.com/weareanathema  /  www.facebook.com/weareanathema

www.kscopemusic.com/anathema/wereherebecausewerehere/

Following their critically acclaimed 2010 ‘We’re Here Because We’re Here’ album, Anathema are set to tour the UK this February and are due to announce details of new EP ‘Dreaming Light’ in the coming weeks. The tour dates are:

09/02 : Durham – Live Lounge

10/02 : Glasgow – Cathouse

11/02 : Sheffield – Academy 2

12/02 : Nottingham – Rescue Rooms

14/02 : Leamington Spa – The Assembly

15/02 : Manchester – Academy 3

16/02 : Wolverhampton – Slade Rooms

17/02 : London – [...]

She Keeps Bees Announce new album details, UK mini tour and teaser track

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She Keeps Bees today announce details of their brand new album ‘Dig On’, a mini UK tour in February and a teaser track ‘Saturn Return’, the first recording since last year’s limited 7″ ’New Seed’.

‘Saturn Return’ will be the opening track from the spring-released album ‘Dig On’ (Names Records), the third full length album from Brooklyn based Jess Larrabee and Andy LaPlant.

Saturn Return by She Keeps Bees

‘Dig On’ was self-recorded during November 2010 in a log home set in New York’s [...]

Introducing Ana Lola Roman

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Jigsaw/ Klutch

Released 11th April 2011

“Much like Laurie Anderson, Danielle Dax, Gang Gang Dance and Rainbow Arabia with an eerie piano/synth and quivering vocal melodies, this performance artist, singer, multi-instrumentalist, whatever you want to call her, always delivers the unexpected…..”

IN MADRID MAGAZINE, Madrid, Spain

“Ana Lola Roman is a Brooklyn synth-pop gem by way of Oklahoma who frequently pops up in Baltimore and Berlin, leaving a trail of lavishly strange dance performances and [...]

Funkerman release two new tracks ‘Paperbag Revolution’ and ‘Everyday Getaway’

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One of the leading names in house music for almost a decade has kicked off the New Year in style. Funkerman is back with the release of two new tracks Paperbag Revolution and Everyday Getaway. The Dutch DJ and producer who topped the download charts in 2007 and 2009 with “Speed Up” and “Remember” remains one of the hardest working men on the house scene and continues his 2010 [...]

Amplifier – The Octopus

There is a tendency, among prog-inclined bands, to release the dreaded double album: a behemoth of a creation that is at once both epic in its scope, yet too broad and perhaps wrapped up in its own world to reach the casual listener. As it is with Amplifier’s two-part statement to the world, ‘The Octopus’.

Starting out with three minutes of space-age ambience, the first track ‘Minion’s Song’ then ushers in the sense of a fantasy narrative/rock opera with a grandiose [...]

Punks Jump Up Release Blockhead

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The London duo Punks Jump Up will set the winter alight with their brand new single Blockhead, out on Kitsune end of Jan-2011.

This percussive, rhythmically hypnotic dance song, accompanied with a quirky & driven bass line
is a tribute to the terrifying looking but yet emotionally soft & musically talented monster on the sleeve of the record. The track came about when Punks Jump Up tried to imagine what it would sound like if this creature, made out [...]

Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die

I suppose by now we are all used to the stream of classic re-issues flooding the shelves right now, multi-disc expanded beasts clad in shining plastic sleeves and white bands that proudly proclaim “deluxe”. But surely there comes a point with more niche releases where the fanfare feels perhaps a little unnecessary? Traffic are by no means household names, and their new re-issue ‘John Barleycorn Must Die’ doesn’t really want a fanfare. However, with infectious soul in its heart and [...]

Listen to James Blake Album Peview

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James Blake releases his highly anticipated debut album ‘James Blake’ due February 7th on Atlas/A&M. With a cover of Feist’s ‘Limit To Your Love‘ and coming in at #2 in the BBC Sound of 2011 Poll, James Blake has been tipped into the forefront of the British public only adding to the demand and excitement surrounding this 22 year old from South London and his forthcoming album.
If you head to James Blake’s You Tube page you can listen to [...]

Mogwai Announce Christmas show at Glasgow Barrowlands

Mogwai are pleased to announce details of a Christmas headline  show in Glasgow.

The band will play the Barrowlands on 22nd December 2011.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 4th Feb at 9am

online www.seetickets.com

hotline 0871 220 0260

plus usual outlets

Mogwai’s new album ‘Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will’ is released on 14th February via their own Rock Action label.

www.mogwai.co.uk

Lee Negin new album

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Jon Peel-Endorsed 1980′s Electronica Guru Returns !

Lee Negin is an internationally recognized composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, synthesist, sound sculptor, producer and recording engineer. Lee Negin’s music has gone through many phases. He was a pioneer in the international Indie/techno/new wave movement of the 1980s, with his recordings receiving airplay around the world. He is listed as an influential artist in “The International Discography of the New Wave” (edited by B. George and Martha Defoe [...]