Indie, Rock & Alternative

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New Fight Like Apes – ‘Poached Egg’

Fight Like Apes are due to release their awesomely-titled second album The Body of Christ…

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Introducing: Gallops – Wrexham’s answer to Battles

Hailing from Wrexham in Wales (it’s not often you can write that) and with the…

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Download ‘Genki Shank’, another new Adebisi Shank tune

The interest in Adebisi Shank’s ‘International Dreambeat’ was pretty high by this blog’s usual standards…

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Abe Vigoda – ‘Throwing Shade’

Abe Vigoda release a new album Crush on September 20th through Bella Union. ‘Throwing Shade’…

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New Deerhunter single – ‘Revival’

You can’t hide anything on the internet. Bradford Cox should know this better than anybody.…

Lite – ‘Image Game’

What a tune. Japan’s Lite have a new album Illuminate out next month on Transduction.…

Crocodiles – ‘Sleep Forever’

Psychedelic shoegazey San Diego rockers Crocodiles (like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club but more inventive) will…

Sambassadeur – ‘I Can Try’

Nice tune from Gothenburg’s Sambassadeur taken from their “grand, classic and orchestrated album” European to…

Introducing: Civil Civic

Razor-sharp guitar and drum machines is the name of the game with Civil Civic. Like…

Listen to new Arcade Fire singles – ‘Ready to Start’ / ‘We Used to Wait’

The North American and UK singles from Arcade Fire’s upcoming The Suburbs album were both…

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Beck contributes to True Blood & Tobacco albums

Taken from the forthcoming True Blood soundtrack which also features M. Ward and others (Vampire…

Catherine A.D. – ‘Better Than Love’ (Hurts cover)

Just listen. Catherine A.D. – Better Than Love (Hurts cover) The original tune. Catherine A.D.…

Vampire Weekend – ‘Jonathan Low’ (Twilight: Eclipse Soundtrack)

Taken from the forthcoming Twilight:Eclipse soundtrack, comes this new tune from Vampire Weekend. The band…

Listen to the new Arcade Fire songs in full

Update: Third album The Suburbs has been announced via their website. It will be released…

New Klaxons – ‘Flashover’

After being told to re-record parts of their second album by Polydor as it was…

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Beach House’s Record Store Day release

Beach House are releasing a special 12″ for Record Store Day tomorrow. There will be…

More new The National – ‘Afraid Of Everyone’

Another great tune from High Violet. This time it’s track five – the core of…

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Introducing: The Joy Formidable

I don’t post a lot of straight-up rock songs here anymore, mostly because nothing in…

Devo, the internet & you..

Last month at SXSW, Devo conducted a live focus group to help decide what their…

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Introducing: Peter Wolf Crier

Recently signed to JagJaguar, Peter Wolf Crier are one of the bands that got away…