Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot

The Cribs have announced details of their fifth album, ‘In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull’, which will be released on 7th May via Wichita Records. As a taster from the record you can now listen to or download brand new track ‘Chi-Town’ below). ‘In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull’ – the follow-up to 2009′s UK Top Ten album ‘Ignore The Ignorant’ – was recorded in upstate New York at Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road studio & in Chicago with engineer Steve Albini at his EAR studios. The band have also announced a string of UK tour dates in May:

Nottingham (07/05)
London (The Troxy) (08/05)
Bristol (09/05)
Glasgow (11/05)
Manchester (12/05)
Eastbourne (13/05)

Suplex Cassettes has two new tapes dropping in February 2012, musically miles apart, but both connected by a common band……






Les Pharaons – 4 Song EP

Eddy from FAIR OHS delivers four songs sung in French that evokes the spirit of the French YeYe music from the 60′s like Francoise Hardy and France Gall that he grew up listening to whilst nodding towards psychedelic wig outs, nestled in between summery garage pop nuggets. If you were a fan of Fair Ohs cover of the Brigitte Bardot classic ‘La Madrague’ from their Eden Rock 7″, you will love this tape.

Tracklisting:
1.Amandine
2. Anais
3. Gourmette
4. Kosma

Listen to ‘Amandine’ for free here:

Pre Order the limited tape here:

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High Hopes – There’s Nothing We Can’t Fix EP

High Hopes is Mr Joe Ryan, who also hits things hard in FAIR OHS and creates sexy tunes in THE ONE.
As a young man growing up in the garden of England, Joe shared an equal love for punk/hardcore/metal as for the synth driven 80′s Soul that came from his parents stereo. High Hopes is his first solo excursion into this world of sex, synths and soul. To someone who is new to this music, it leans towards the modern stylings of John Maus and Ariel Pink mixed in with the obvious love of Jam & Lewis and SOS Band. Skewed synth pop love songs for lovers.

Tracklisting:
1. There’s Nothing We Can’t Fix
2. Saturdays
3. We’re In This Together
4. Said Too Much
5. Dirty Word

Stream ‘There’s Nothing We Can’t Fix’ here:

Pre-Order the limited tape here:

http://suplexcassettes.bigcartel.com/product/high-hopes-5-song-ep

Electro-pop veterans New Order have been announced as the latest headliners for this year’s Bestival music event. The electro-pop veterans, famous for their hit Blue Monday, will play the Saturday night headliner slot at the event run by Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank on the Isle of Wight in September. Original bassist Peter Hook will not be performing with New Order, who reformed last year.

Elsewhere on the line-up Friendly Fires, Death In Vegas, Daughter, Drums Of Death, Zulu Winter and Django Django join Icelandic chill-rockers Sigur Ros who have already been announced as a UK festival exclusive along with The xx, Two Door Cinema Club, Justice, Orbital, Hot Chip, 2manydjs and De La Soul.

Speaking of getting New Order to play, Rob Da Bank said: “So I’ve got Blue Monday blaring out of the Bestival HQ office speakers as we unveil our iconic Saturday night headliner New Order. It doesn’t get better than that, but it does, True Faith, Bizarre Love Triangle, Fine Time, Regret, so many amazing records that I grew up listening to (and still listen to now) and they still sound immense, pioneering, legendary. See you down the front.”

Bestival runs from September 6th – 9th at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight.

Full Time Hobby’s latest signings Hooded Fang & Pinkunoizu are to release a split 7″ single together.

On the one side, Hooded Fang’s Clap is a garage rock riot with surf guitars, ‘verbed-out vocals and danceable ‘60s drum breaks. “It’s a song about one of those single life encounters – just drunken memories really,” say the four piece Polaris-nominated band, who hail from Toronto, Canada. Hooded Fang’s brilliant debut album is titled Tosta Mista; it sounds like the whole of the Nuggets box set condensed into 23 minutes and it’s set for a 12 March release.

On the other side of the vinyl, Pinkunoizu’s Parabolic Delusions is an unpredictable, involved but nonetheless ear-friendly listen that establishes deep, immersive grooves. “This here must be the most poppy piece of music we have ever done,” say the experimental Copenhagenand Berlin-based band, who release their debut album, Free Time!, on 26 March.

The single is scheduled for a 5th March release.

School of Seven Bells have announced a short run of European shows kicking off on March 8th at The Garage in London. The Brooklyn duo made up of Benajmin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza are set to release third album ‘Ghostory’ on February 27th on Full Time Hobby with their new single ‘Lafaye’ due February 20th.

Ghostory is the follow-up to the band’s past releases, Alpinisms and Disconnect From Desire. On the new record, the duo strings together nine lush pieces to tell the story of the aforementioned Lafaye and the ghosts that surround her life. Thematically, the story is somewhat personal to the group, as the writing sessions for this album was a more intimate and direct experience. As Curtis explains “Ghosts are everything that’s ever happened to you that you haven’t been able to let go of, like someone you love, or someone you hate.” The emphatic bellows of Lafaye and her fellow ghosts are heard loud and clear from beginning to end on this record. Hmmm.

School of Seven Bells European Tour

08/03 – The Garage – London
10/03 – Botanique – Witloof – Belgium, Brussels
11/03 – Bitterzoet – Amsterdam, Netherlands
12/03 – Point Ephemere – Paris, France
14/03 – Festsaal Kreuzberg – Berlin, Germany

Having just completed a short tour supporting the Vaccines, The Trailer Trash Tracys have announced the release of the their debut. The quartet, who garnered critical acclaim from the likes of the Guardian and Dazed and Confused with their stunning, ethereal debut single ‘Candy Girl’ earlier this year, will release long player ‘Ester’ on 9th January 2012 via Double Six Records.

Earlier this year HP and Last.fm announced a partnership, celebrating the Beats audio™ technology that comes with HP Premium PC, laptop and tablet devices through a series of live music events and artist interviews, curated by Last.fm.

After a successful summer of secret pop-up sessions from bands like Slow Club, The Boxer Rebellion and Ghostpoet, Last.fm and HP are back with three more pop-up sessions to bookmark the end of the year as part of their Everybody On global campaign. The first of the planned late 2011 sessions was DELS who recently played a captivating set at The Lock Tavern, wowing the crowd at this packed out venue with his own unique brand of hip-hop.

Now it’s the turn of The Leisure Society to play a free pop-up session for Last.fm and HP. The band sail into Tamesis Dock on Thursday 24th November 2011 to play a very special, intimate set. No tickets are required – anyone can turn-up at 8.30pm to watch the band perform.

You can keep up to date on HP’s “Artists’ Lounge” and for the latest information on the pop-up sessions, exclusive content and artist interviews follow HP on Twitter.

Next weekend Rochester’s Royal Function Rooms plays host to medway’s first 3 day indie music festival in the form of ‘Live Transmission’. The event, which is organised by local record label The Preservation Society, runs from Friday 25th Nov to Sunday 27th and features The Singing Loins, Lupen Crook, Theatre Royal, Stuart Turner, Kids Unique, Dead Lovers, Go!Zilla, Broken Antler and many more. Tickets can be bought on the door for the cheap as chips price of £6 per night.

Full details are available on the label’s website , and you can get a free compilation of all the bands playing below.

While your in town why not pop into the Deaf Cat in Rochester High Street where you can check out Lupen Crook’s first solo art exhibition.

On 9th January, 2012, the Lemonheads will release Hotel Sessions on Hall of Records – an intimate recording documenting a Sunday night that Evan Dando spent recording new songs with just an acoustic guitar (and some revealing commentary) in a hotel room in Bondi Beach, Australia. The 14 songs include some that never made it to an official Lemonheads album, but as Dando says, “the ‘Into Your Arms’ I did here is better than the one on the album…”

“I’ve always wanted to make an “Album ” for 53 dollars – Walkman 50 , tape 3 bucks – Oh to record live to cassette, master it and put it out … I have finally done it! I recorded this here biscuit in and around either December ’92, or Feb ’93. I remember it was a Sunday night in Bondi – the night the ‘car enthusiasts’ come out. I had just returned to Australia – my home away from home – from our first Japanese tour. Life was good. I made this tape for our Aussie agent of that time, Stephen Pavlovic. I am forever grateful to this man for introducing me to Australia and a grand gang of Australians!

This LP documents a lovely lull in the action. A Sunday night into morning, to collect myself and my songs. The songs that would be on our next album, some of these never made it, and the ‘Into Your Arms’ I did here is better than the one on the album (I like it anyway). So sit back, snort some NoDoz and listen for the tunes, the sea, the tape hiss (ahhh), the cars, the birds the trucks, and the killer motorcycle at the end of ‘Being Around’! Wherever you live, I’ll be back there soon, Inshallah!! Until then, let’s all make the most of the tail end of sex with furniture. Yours ever faithfully.” Evan G Dando.

Track Listing:

01.Big Gay Heart.
02.Great Big No.
03.Paid To Smile
04.It’s About Time.
05.Style.
06.I’ll Do It Anyway.
07.Rest Assured.
08.You Can Take It With You (prt.2).
09.Down About It.
10.Into Your Arms.
11.Superhero
12.And So The Story Goes.
13.Being Around.
14.You Can Take It With You (prt.1).

Lemonheads – Its A Shame About Ray UK Tour :

November 30th Portsmouth/Wedgewood Rooms
December 1st Nottingham / Rescue Rooms
December 2nd Leeds/Cockpit
December 4th Newcastle/The Cluny
December 5th Glasgow/Oran Mor Auditorium
December 6th Manchester/Ritz
December 7th Liverpool/Academy 2
December 8th Sheffield/Plug
December 10th Birmingham/Academy 2
December 11th Cambridge/The Junction
December 12th London/Shepherd’s Bush Empire
December 13th Brighton/Concorde 2

Big Deal celebrate their new single ‘Distant Neighborhood’ with a headline show at London’s Lexington on 21st November. Not only that but the first 50 ticket holders to get to the Lexington next Monday will get a mute records tote bag with the ‘chair’ vinyl and special prizes inside. 5 of which have the lights out vinyl and big deal Tshirts in.

Check out the video for ‘Distant Neighborhood’ right here: