Blood Red Shoes

Plus: Lily Allen, Paupiere, Blood Red Shoes and more just-announced tours.

Plus: Billie Joe Armstrong's band The Longshot, The Fratellis & Blood Red Shoes, Immersion (Colin Newman of Wire), Bodega, Collapsing Scenery, Viv Albertine, Screaming Females, ASG, Blis, and more newly-announced tours.

UK music site Drowned in Sound is kinda the British equivalent of Pitchfork, albeit with a very strong community aspect to it. They just published their 50 Favourite Albums of 2014 list and while it contains many of the LPs we've been seeing on a lot of these lists, it's a distinctly not-American point of view...

Feisty Welsh trio The Joy Formidable brought their tour with Blood Red Shoes to NYC last week for shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg (4/17) and Webster Hall (4/18)...

In what is now an annual tradition, we're playing catch up during this final week of the year. If this post seems outdated, that's because it is...

After Chris left the BV Loft Party all the way back on Friday, October 22nd, he headed over to Music Hall of Williamsburg for the Blue Flowers-presented CMJ showcase for a lineup of mostly UK bands including Chapel Club, Everything Everything, and Blood Red Shoes (who toured North America with Sky Larkin in October)...

DOWNLOAD: Sky Larkin - Year Dot (Spirit Spine Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sky Larkin - Barracuda (MP3) Sky Larkin will be over from the UK this month for a North American tour which starts in Vancouver on October 12 -- the same day their teriffic new album, Kaleide, gets its American release...