John Grant

John Grant’s upcoming North American tour is his first in three years and includes his biggest-ever NYC headline show.

Our July 2018 playlist includes new tracks by Cat Power, Blood Orange, Dirty Projectors, Foxing, Brockhampton, Denzel Curry, Phoebe Bridgers, Deafheaven, Phosphorescent, and more.

This year’s fest includes headliners Fleet Foxes and The War on Drugs, plus performances by Grizzly Bear, Phoebe Bridgers, Dirty Projectors, John Grant, Kevin Morby, Alex Cameron, and Baxter Dury, among others.

The new documentary features interviews with chief songwriters Partridge and Colin Moulding, as well as guitarist Dave Gregory, drummer Terry Chambers, plus producer John Leckie and fans Stewart Copeland (The Police), Clem Burke (Blondie), John Grant, Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons), Miles Kane (Last Shadow Puppets), and more.

You may remember that for Rough Trade’s 40th anniversary, there were some celebratory shows in London featuring unique, one-off pairings. One of those was John Grant and Wrangler (the current band of Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Stephen Mallinder). That collaboration now has a name, Creep Show, and a debut album, Mr Dynamite, due out March 16, 2018 via Bella Union.

UK electronic band Vessels will release their fourth album The Great Distraction on September 29 via Different Recordings. The band, who hail from Leeds, have brought in a few guest vocalists for the album…

The BBC held a concert in celebration of the music of Scott Walker on Wednesday, July 25 at London’s Royal Albert Hall, as part of the annual Proms classical music festival. The event focused particularly on material from Walker’s first four solo albums following his departure from The Walker Brothers, released from 1967 to 1970…

Norwegian artist Susanne Sundfør, who has collaborated with M83 and Röyksopp, will release her new album Music For People In Trouble…

The Ramones were their first obsession but it was not their last. They have seen over 10,000 shows together, Happy Mondays wrote a song about them on their classics Pills, Thrills & Bellyaches LP, and they’re still going strong.

Arc Iris, the chamber pop band fronted by former Low Anthem member Jocie Adams, returned earlier this year with their second album Moon Saloon on Bella Union. They’ve now made a video for “Paint With The Sun” off that album, which mostly has shots of Jocie singing and tons of trippy effects. We asked Jocie […]