XL Recordings

Hello, I’m am writing to you from lovely California . I have been here since finishing my last tour of 2009 with The XX and The Friendly Fires on the West Coast in early December…

DOWNLOAD: Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil (MP3) Gil Scott-Heron‘s XL Recording debut, I’m New Here, his first record since 1994, is due February 9th (a month later than intially reported)…

DOWNLOAD: Blue Roses – I am Leaving (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Blue Roses – Doubtful Comforts (MP3) Blue Roses, aka UK singer-songwriter Laura Groves, released her self-titled debut album full of beautiful folk songs via XL Recordings in July…

When I got to the xx show at Bowery Ballroom last night (11/11), I was told by someone reliable that Gil Scott-Heron was planning on joining the headlining UK band on stage for some songs – both with them and on his own for a few…

Holly Miranda @ Mercury Lounge (more by Tim Griffin)”XL Recordings is excited to announce the signing of HOLLY MIRANDA. Holly is a New York based musician and her debut album will be released in early 2010…

words & Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed and Barbara Lynn @ The Bell House The 1st Brooklyn Soul Festival was a great success. Sell out crowd on the 1st night and nearly so on the second…

The XX, four young, sullen-faced youths dressed in black, have that alluring band-as-a-gang aura about them. They spent their youth at south-west London’s Elliott School (fellow alumni: Four Tet, Burial and Hot Chip) obsessively tinkering with instruments in the music room before signing a deal and self-producing their album in their record company’s back office…

DOWNLOAD: Riceboy Sleeps – Boy 1904 (MP3) (via) “Known primarily for his haunting falsetto and other-worldly presence as the singer in Sigur Rós, Jon Thor Birgisson has – together with his partner Alex Somers – been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy Sleeps for two or three years now, including the release of a limited edition picture book…

As you may have heard by now, Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot’s Wes Miles have a group called Discovery who have an album coming out on XL Recordings on July 7th…

DOWNLOAD: Elvis Perkins in Dearland – Shampoo (MP3) Elvis Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is a folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (an Academy-award nominated screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho), and a well known Elvis Presley aficionado, and photographer Berry Berenson, whose work appeared regularly in Life magazine…