With the single due for release on January 18, 2010 and the album from which the track is pulled - Hidden - scheduled in for the next week (Jan 25), now seems a good time for a promotional video. Originating from Southend-on-Sea and citing Wu-Tang Clan as a major influence may seem like an odd origin story.
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Near the end of each year, the BBC compile a list of new and up and coming bands, hand-picked by 165 people dubbed as 'tastemakers' and put together in a competition-like voting system that sees the the top five winners of fifteen bands eventually named and applauded at the start of next year.
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Polar Bear have revealed plans to release their fourth album, Peepers, via the Leaf label on 1st March, 2010. It's the band's first record for Leaf. You can download or stream the title track over on the label's SoundCloud here.
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It was Friday of last week when we posted the news of an impending These New Puritans 2010 UK tour for January and February, all in the name of their upcoming follow-up L. P 'Hidden'. Now, to add more fuel to the blazing fire of hype, the band have released their first new single in the form of We Want War along with it's accompanying video.
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A sometimes forgotten fact at ATP - ATP has music. In the time it takes for us to find our chalet on the cusp of Butlins-colonised civilisation, throw down our bags, and locate a bottle of So' Co' (Southern Comfort) at the grim but conveniently situated Everydays mini-mart, roughly 80 percent of our known friends have gotten well on their ways to being happily too drunk to be fully aware of any...
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The next Dodos song to garner itself a video from their latest record 'Time To Die' is track number two; 'Longform'. Midday drives through forests, summery weather, fields of corn, coast-lines and inoffensively catchy indie-pop; a perfect collection of lovable tidbits to thaw away that frosty, wintery soul of yours.
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We confirmed the news of a new These New Puritans L. P back at the end of October and now, the group have announced a UK tour around the same time. Hidden is the follow-up effort's title and comes two years after their early-2008 début Beat Pyramid.
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A wise man named Alexander LaVelle Harris once succinctly described the main draw of country music: "the music of pain". This should surely apply to folk also, since every morsel of Sunrise/Sunset is marinated in heartache, malady and torment. We're talking almost Johnny Cash proportions here.
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Frightened Rabbits third full-length album goes by the name of 'The Winter Of Mixed Drinks' and is due for release here in the UK on March 1st 2010 and March 9th in the US. We've already had an introductory single in the form of Swim Until You Can't See Land which is out now as a digital download and due on 7-inch vinyl on December 8th as well as the recently confirmed second single due for a F..
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Ex-Oasis front-man Liam Gallagher has revealed his post-Oasis plans and they include a fair amount of familiar faces: everyone who isn't Noel Gallagher it seems. Andy Bell (guitar), Gem Archer (guitar), and Chris Sharrock (drums) will all make the transition to Liam Gallagher's new project along with keyboardist Jay Darlington.
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Ahead of the January 19th 2010 release date for their 'Behave Yourself EP' (artwork up top), Cold War Kids are giving away a one of the featured EP tracks for absolutely nothing. Audience is the CD's opening track and is currently up for free download over at the bands official Myspace blog as part of the RCRD Of The Week Myspace feature.
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Xiu Xiu are prepping the release of their newest album 'Dear God, I Hate Myself' and have just announced a batch of UK dates in support of the 2010 CD. Kicking off on February 20th in Dublin, the band play nine consecutive nights, one after the other until their final performance in Coventry on the 28th.
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The only tour dates left for Wild Beasts in 2009 are one tonight in Portugal for the 'Super Bock Em Stock Festival' and then one on their home-turf in Kendal on December 22nd. From 2010 onwards, the band begin their first ever US tour (not before their brief Aussie stint), taking their rather glorious new record Two Dancers on the road for seventeen days, finishing in Washington DC on February 27t
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Many of you may not of heard Make Good Your Escape and sadly, many of you never will as the band are now defunct, splitting up back in 2007 due to label and money troubles. Just because they no long exist doesn't mean they don't qualify for our Video Of The Week though and so proudly and lovingly, we offer to you one of their finest moments in their all too brief career.
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As previously announced, the first single to be lifted from Lightspeed Champion's forthcoming record 'Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You' is 'Marlene' and just recently, that very single was given a new video. What starts off as a rather normal vid (main-man Dev Hynes sitting hostage in the back of a truck, racing through a desert landscape) quickly becomes a confusedly psychedelic journey intoÂ
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Thee American Revolution is the psych-rock side-project of 'Apples In Stereo' frontman Robert Schneider & friends and much to our surprise, their out-of-nowhere début L. P is out right now. Buddha Electrostorm is the records name and it's being released through Garden Gate Records / Elephant 6 Recording Co.
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One member of alt-rap trio Beastie Boys and all round business cool-guy Adam Yauch started a film production and distribution company by the name of 'Oscilloscope Laboratories' a few years back in New York. Home to his very own high-school basketball documentary Gunnin' For That #1 Spot as well as the Kelly Reichardt-directed Wendy And Lucy, the company has now started a new subscription servic
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At this years Grammy Awards, Radiohead took to the stage alongside the Trojan Marching Band of California to perform the 'In Rainbows' intro-track '15 Step'. It was ridiculously big in every way possible and now, you can grab yourself a copy of the collaboration on CD.
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