East India Youth
East India Youth shares second song from new album, announces North American tour (dates, stream)
East India Youth has shared a second track from his forthcoming second album, Culture of Volume, which is out in April via XL. “Turn Away” is a more of a pop song than the austere “Carousel” (though they both remind me of Midge Ure-era Ultravox) and you can stream it below…
East India Youth signed to XL, releasing new album in April (listen to a song), playing SXSW
East India Youth, whose debut album was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize, has signed with XL and will release his second album, Culture of Volume, on April 7…
Iceland Airwaves fest announces initial 2015 lineup
Long-running, eclectic and generally well-regarded music festival Iceland Airwaves will happen November 5 – 9, 2015 in Reykjavík. They’ve just announced the initial lineup which includes Ariel Pink, Perfume Genius, GusGus, Spanish bands Mourn and Hinds, East India Youth and more…
The Guardian's Top 40 Albums of 2014
Sleaford Mods at their US debut (more by PSquared)
The Guardian has been sloooowwwlllyyyy revealing their Top 40 Albums of 2014, having rolled out the top 10 one by one over the past 1…
UK site Drowned in Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2014
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…
The Quietus list their Albums Of The Year 2014
Now that it’s December, Best of Lists Season is in full swing. If you’re already tired of seeing ones that have The War on Drugs at the top (or near it), you can always rely on UK website The Quietus to offer up something different…
Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2014
We’re just over a month away from 2015 and those UK year-end lists keep pouring in. Now British music mag Uncut has posted their 75 Best Albums of 2…
MOJO's Top 50 LPs of 2014
We just posted Q Magazine’s Best of 2014 albums list and now here’s the same from sister publication MOJO. Not only do they share a publisher, but also more than half of same albums appear on both lists…
Q Magazine's Top 50 LPs of 2014: The War on Drugs are #1
Rough Trade were the first out of the gate with year-end lists but now long-running UK monthly music mag Q has just published their end-of-the-year issue (with cover star Ed Sheeran) which includes their Top 50 LPs of 2014…
SXSW 2015 2nd round of artists announced
The Cribs at MHOW in 2012 (more by Guy Eppel)
A ton of artists were already announced for SXSW 2015 (March 17-22), and now the second artist announcement has come with several more including Twin Shadow, The Cribs, Swervedriver, Gang of Four, KEN mode, Weyes Blood, Wild Throne, Elvis Depressedly, SURVIVE, Juan Wauters, San Fermin, Lydia Ainsworth, The Blind Shake, Ex-Cult, Ikonika, King Tuff, Pujol, The Velvet Teen, The Zombies, Zookeeper, Yumi Zouma and tons m…
