Jumping Ships Announce 2nd EP

In a welcome return following their highly praised 'Orientation' EP, Brighton's own Jumping Ships are set to strike again with what promises to be their best, but different, work yet. Their 2nd EP is titled 'Standard Bearer' and will be released on September 19, 2011. Expect to see a new side to the band that won fan's hearts in 2010.

The upcoming EP will be the bands second release on Alcopop! Records, following-up on the recent single 'Heart & Heart' showing the bands growing maturity. The release will be a part of Redbull Studios EP Club where half the EP was recorded.

August Tour Dates (All With Lightguides except *)

(15) London, Old Blue Last
(16) Bristol, The Croft
(17) Hereford, The Jailhouse
(18) Northampton, The Labour Club
(19*) London, Borderline w/ Brontide + Run Walk
(21) Hastings, Tubman
(22) Leeds, Milo
(25) Thurso, The New Market Bar
(26) Dundee, Dexters
(27) Glenrothes, The Greenside

Free track from Blitzen Trapper

Ahead of their new album, 'American Goldwing', on September 12th Blitzen Trapper are offering y'all the chance to download a track using this fancy widgetty thing below. Enjoy.

The Skull Defekts - EU Tour Dates October 2011‏

Great news! Skull Defekts, producers of what is undoubtedly going to be one of E&D's albums of the year, are hauling ass over to these shores in October.

They will be playing these dates:
Thu Oct 20 London, UK Borderline
Fri Oct 21 Cardiff, UK SWN Festival
Sat Oct 22 Birmingham, UK Supersonic Festival
Sun Oct 23 Boulogne-Billancourt, France Le Carré Bellefeuille
Fri Oct 28 Nantes, France D.F.A.

And you'd be crazy to miss them.

Win studio time at An Endless Room

An Endless Room, an intimate recording studio based in Primrose Hill, London, is launching today! To celebrate the launch, we've created a very special competition to showcase some of the UK's best creative talent!

They'd like to invite bands and musicians to record a song entitled "An Endless Room". The genre is open-ended and it's up to all entrants to interpret this title as they see fit! We'll listen to every single application and at the end of the month we'll decide the winning entry!

Our competition winner will receive free studio time at An Endless Room and coverage on our website, where the track will be available to stream and download.

The closing date is the 31st July and we'll announce the winner the following week.

To apply, you will need to:

1. Send an email to mail@anendlessroom.com with your name, phone number and email address. Please also include your band name/artist name, the names of all members of your band (if applicable), your official website and your Myspace, Bandcamp or Soundcloud link.

2. Please also send a link to your track named "An Endless Room" - this can be via WeTransfer, YouSendIt, Soundcloud etc. No file attachments please.

Thanks and good luck!

IndianRedLopez: Free MP3 and Video

IndianRedLopez debut album was released earlier this week, and to celebrate they've put together an amazing video for their album track, "Ropes", as well as giving away the free track -"K.Y.S."



IndianRedLopez - K.Y.S by abadgeoffriendship

Dananananaykroyd announce October/November UK Tour

The mighty Dananananaykroyd are bringing their live antics to a town near you this autumn. If you haven't seen these guys live you owe it to yourselves to remedy that with this tour, we promise you won't regret it!

The full list of headline dates are as follows:

OCTOBER
Sat 29th: Glasgow, ABC
Mon 31st: Manchester, Deaf Institute

NOVEMBER
Tue 1st: Leicester, Firebug
Thu 3rd: Brighton, The Haunt
Fri 4th: London, KCLSU
Sat 5th: Bristol, Cooler
Sun 6th: Stoke, Sugarmill
Mon 7th: Portsmouth, Wedgewood
Tue 8th: Exeter, Cavern
Thu 10th: Oxford, Bullingdon
Fri 11th: York, Fibbers
Sat 12th: Newcastle, Cluny

New single announcement coming soon, but until then here's the video for 'Muscle Memory'.

The Voluntary Butler Scheme: Exclusive free track & video ahead of album release

Voluntary Butler Scheme (aka Rob Jones) release their new album 'Grandad Galaxy' on July 18 through Split Records. Ahead of that we've got a video & download of the song 'Yo Yo Star' which, somewhat perversely, doesn't appear on the album.

Get the track here.

...and watch the video below:

Kurran & the Wolfnotes tour details

Following on from their appearance at Jamie Oliver's Big Feastival and a fantastic headline slot at Tamesis Dock in London last week, more dates for Kurran & the Wolfnotes have been announced!

You can still hear their track ‘Your Four Limbs’ below:



Kurran & the Wolfnotes will be playing the following dates:

JULY
16th: The Little Bird Festival, Kingston Upon Thames
Buy tickets here.

20th: Bamboozled @ The Bull & Gate, London (w/Sissy & the Blisters & Doyle and the Fourfathers)
Buy tickets here.

23rd: Good Weekend Festival, Hampshire (w/Art Brut & Hot Club de Paris)
Buy tickets here.

AUGUST
26th: Festinho, Bedfordshire (w/My Tiger, My Timing & Treetop Flyers)
Buy tickets here.

WOODEN SHJIPS free MP3, album + tour reminder!‏

Wooden Shjips are releasing their new album West on Thrill Jockey Records on 15 August, to be followed by and extensive EU tour in September. We're delighted to offer you a free MP3 from the album to download and share around for the track "Lazy Bones". Please let me know if you need any further information, downloads for the album, photos etc and if you're able to review or cover in some way.

FREE MP3!! Wooden Shjips "Lazy Bones"

EU TOUR
Sat Sep 3 Larmer Tree Gardens, UK End Of The Road Festival
Sun Sep 4 London, UK Scala
Mon Sep 5 Leeds, UK The Brudenell
Tue Sep 6 Liverpool, UK The Kazimier
Thu Sep 8 Tallin, Estonia Rock Cafe
Fri Sep 9 Helsinki, Finland Korjaamo
Sat Sep 10 Copenhagen, Denmark Loppen
Sun Sep 11 Gronigen, Netherlands Vera Club
Wed Sep 14 Krefeld, Germany Sudbanhof
Thu Sep 15 Paris, France Cafe de la danse
Fri Sep 16 Rouen, France Le 106
Sat Sep 17 Tilburg, Netherlands Incubate
Tue Sep 20 Vienna, Austria B72

SCISSOR SISTERS: UK racecourse shows & book signing this month!‏

To coincide with their headline slot at Lovebox Festival next Sunday, Scissor Sisters have confirmed a series of UK racecourse headline shows for the coming weeks, as well as a book signing session.

Widely cited as one of the world’s most exciting live acts and fresh from Lady Gaga’s worldwide Monster Ball Tour, Scissor Sisters will perform the following UK shows:

July 16th Haydock Park Racecourse, Liverpool – BUY TICKETS
July 17th Lovebox Festival, London - BUY TICKETS
July 20th Sandown Park Racecourse, Surrey - BUY TICKETS
July 22nd Newmarket Racecourse, Suffolk - BUY TICKETS
July 24th Splendour Festival, Nottingham - BUY TICKETS

On top of the live shows, Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears will be doing a London instore book signing on July 18th to mark the launch of ‘One Day in the Life of Jake Shears’, a book of photographs taken by American photographer Tim Hailand.

Scissor Sisters’ most recent, very surreal and definitely NSFW video for ‘Invisible Light’, taken from last year’s album ‘Night Work’ can be seen below: