Thomas Tantrum

The beguiling Thomas Tantrum are back with the brilliant new track ‘The Last Kiss’. It’s four minutes of breezy power pop and a welcome return for this four piece from Southampton.

You can download it for free here.

Or listen to it here: The Last Kiss by Thomas Tantrum

Richard Ashcroft

Richard Ashcroft has a new band, The United States Of Sound. Check out this preview of material from their forthcoming album:

World Cup Carnival

New Young Pony Club have been confirmed alongside XFM’s Eddy Temple-Morris to DJ in Round 2 of Division's World Cup Carnival. More details in this vid:
                  

May Album Review Roundup

May saw the Echoes And Dust DJs released from their darkened room and out in to the world of gigdom. They mostly behaved themselves and the inaugral Sunkan Dymonds night was widely regarded to have been a rip-roaring success, £500 being raised for Macmillan Cancer Care in the process. The result of all such breathless excitiment has been that we've hardly had a chance to pen to paper this month, so here's a few things we missed but deserve an honourable mention:

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The Echo Chamber Volume 1.3

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Sound Of Guns - Architect

Sound of Guns release their new single “Architects” on June 21st through Distiller Records. The single will be available on 7” vinyl and digital download. This track is taken from their forthcoming debut album “What Came From Fire” which will be released on June 28th.

April Album Review Roundup

April, meant to be a month of spring sunshine, summery showers and cherry blossom. What have we had this year? Volcanoes, hail storms and general elections.

All feels a little end of days if you ask me and adding to that sensation comes this apocalyptic sounding record. ‘We Are A Unit’ (Brew Records, April 12) from Castrovalva is twenty seven minutes of absolute adrenaline charged insanity. In less than half an hour this Leeds three piece crash through twelve tracks of thumpingly heavy but tight as fuck funky craziness. Read More...

The Like - He's Not A Boy

New vid for their 60's tinged single 'He's Not A Boy' from LA ladies The Like presented here for your appreciation:

                   
                    He's Not A Boy from The Like on Vimeo

Subfocus - Splash Feat. Coco

Surefire dancefloor filler from Subfocus, fresh from remix work with The Prodigy & Empire of The Sun, here's the vid for 'Splash' featuring up and comer Coco on vocal duties:

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Matt Bentley - 'Entropy' Album Review Posted

Matt Bentley is a singer songwriter hailing from Leeds (where else these days? It seems like every other CD we’ve reviewed recently has come from Leeds) and plying a quirky, upbeat type of melancholia, if that isn’t too much of a contradiction. Think Iron & Wine or Noah & The Whale.