San Francisco lo-fi singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ty Segall has announced that he will release a new solo album, SLEEPER, on August 20. The album – set to be released via Drag City – will be Segall’s first LP since last year’s triptych of Hair, SlaughterHouse and Twins. As previously announced earlier this year, Segall will also an album with his band Fuzz later this year. Watch the typically wry trailer for SLEEPER below. Watch the trailer for the album below.
Belfast rock four-piece Dutch Schultz have unveiled the video to the latest single, ‘Year of the Mule’ – and we have the first look! Taken from the recently rejuvanated band’s latest – second – album, Tonight We Hunt, the single follows on from the success of ‘Big Dime’ (featuring vocals from Kerbdog’s Cormac Battle). Directed by Dan Danger, watch the video below! Photo by Diarmuid Kennedy
British electronic duo Dominic Maer and Kai Campos AKA Mount Kimbie have released a stream of their colloboration with London singer-songwriter King Krule. Titled ‘You Took Your Time’, it’s the latest track to be taken from the duo’s forthcoming album, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, released via Warp on May 28. King Krule also features on ‘Meter, Pale, Tone’ from the upcoming release. Cold Spring Fault Less Youth tracklist: 1. ‘Home Recording’ 2. ‘You Took Your Time (feat. King Krule)’ 3. ‘Break Well’ 4. ‘Blood and Form’ 5. ‘Made To Stray’ 6. ‘So Many Times, So Many Ways’ 7. ‘Lie…
The very first in a series of music by Red Bull Music Academy, 12 Years Of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be looks back at the last decade and a bit of one of the most iconic record labels of our age, New York City’s DFA Records. Featuring appearances from the likes of The Rapture, Holy Ghost!, The Juan MacLean, Sinkane, Shit Robot, YACHT and – yes – LCD Soundsystem and James Murphy, the thirteen-minute mini-documentary is narrated by Marc Mahon and directed by Max Joseph. Watch 12 Years of DFA via Vimeo below.
Queens Of The Stone Age have unveiled the animated video to yet another new song, ‘Kalopsia’ (“A condition wherein things appear more beautiful than they are”). Set to feature as a mid-album track on the band’s forthcoming new album, … Like Clockwork, it features images from the album’s visual artist Boneface, also responsible for the clip for ‘I Appear Missing’. Watch the (mildly frightening) video below.
Snow Patrol have been announced as the headliners of the second day of this year’s Tennent’s Vital – the band’s only European date this summer. Taking play at Belfast’s Boucher Road Playing Fields on Thursday, August 15, it will be eleven years on since the five-piece first played the festival – and seven years on from when they headlined it back in 2006. The band will be supported by Dublin quartet Kodaline and singer-songwriter Foy Vance. Last month Kings of Leon were announced as headliners of day one of the festival, taking place a day before on August 14. Tickets…
Taking place at Charleville Castle, Tullamore from August 2-4, the line-up for this year’s Castlepalooza Music and Arts Festial has been announced. Boasting an impressive roster of international electronic acts such Kutmah, Luke Vibert and Ceephax Acid Crew, several Northern Irish acts including Girls Names, Ed Zealous and SOAK also feature in the line-up. With more announcements yet to be made, the following acts will play the festival: Al Patron, And So I Watch You From Afar, Arman Giorgio, Bolts, Carried By Waves, Ceephax Acid Crew, Clogagh Murphy, Clu, Cymbals, Daithi, DJ Baz, Dogs, Double Agent 7, Dunc4n, Ed Zealous,…
Thirty-four years after being founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, a new book entitled Facing The Other Way will document the colourful history of boundlessly influential record label, 4AD. Having released music from artists as diverse and pioneering the Pixies, Grimes to Cocteau Twin – to name but a few – the London-based independent label will sees its history penned by journalist Martin Aston and will feature several exclusive interviews. You can pre-order Facing The Other Way – set for release on September 19 – here. Watch a 4AD session from the Mark Lanegan Band below.
To mark the release of his highly-anticipated debut album, VerseChorusVerse AKA Belfast-based singer-songwriter Tony Wright has announced a special, full-band show in association with The Thin Air. Featuring Jonny Black and Herb Magee from LaFaro and Stu Bell and Stephen Leacock (ex-General Fiasco, Desert Hearts), the Northern Irish supergroup of sorts (above) will bring to life what Wright calls “an edgy, full blooded, forward thinking, rootsy rock n roll album laced equally with hope and realism”. The free show will take place at Belfast’s Voodoo on Saturday, June 15. A Dublin show upstairs in Whelan’s will take place two nights…
The tension, excitement and momentum continues to mount. Recorded as part of a Belgian radio session, two brand new tracks by Queens of The Stone Age have just surfaced online. Set to feature on their highly-anticipated new album …Like Clockwork., ‘I Sat By The Ocean’ and ‘If I Had A Tail’ are two extremely promising tracks, building upon the two songs we’ve already heard – ‘My God Is The Sun’ and ‘I Appear Missing’. Stream the two live songs via Soundcloud below.