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Laura Marling will release her Ethan Johns-produced second album ‘I Speak Because I Can’ on March 22nd, the follow-up to her Mercury-nominated debut ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’. The album will be preceded by new single ‘Devil’s Spoke’ on March 15th. Laura is to release a second album this year with recording starting this March, again [...]

I went to see Editors a couple of months back. I’d never quite understood their appeal (the sublime Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors aside), but the missus is a big fan so I thought I’d indulge her. I can report back that they were good though quite samey and that Wintersleep blew them out of [...]

Having caused quite the stir with their ‘Vivarium’ mini-album and subsequent singles ‘You’re Turning Into John Wayne’ and ‘What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?’, Glaswegian quartet Twin Atlantic are set to release new single ‘Lightspeed’ on Monday 1st March.   The track itself, according to frontman Sam McTrusty, is “about unity and self belief but [...]

For a dreary Monday evening the Joiners is surprisingly full, and the anticipation for the line-up tonight is noticeable. After arriving a little late (oops), the first band that I saw hit the stage were Southampton’s own Kerouac who ripped through a short and fast set of their thrash inspired hardcore. Watch out for their [...]

www.creed.com   |  www.myspace.com/creed   On February 15th, Virgin Records release ‘Rain’, the second single to be taken from Creed’s fourth studio album ‘Full Circle’.  This is the band’s first album of new material since the release of Weathered in November 2001 and truly represents the band at its best.  ‘Rain’ follows on from debut single [...]

Apoloies for the delys folks, this edition of singles corner should have gone up on Monday, but with the tracks we’ve got for you we think you’ll agree that it was worth the wait. So, without any further stalling, let’s check out this weeks singles. WHITE RABBITS – Percussion Gun TBD Records Starting with, as [...]

of Montreal have unveiled details of their forthcoming album, including a collaboration with Solange Knowles. Glamourous frontman Kevin Barnes revealed several details about the new record in a recent interview with Stereogum; the album will be potentially called either ‘False Priest’ or ‘The Controller Sphere’ and is set for release in late Summer/early Autumn. R [...]

Canadian quintet Wintersleep have emerged from Halifax and with their second self titled album show some bizarre qualities mixed together that seem to work. The opening track “Lipstick” is vocally comparable to a combination of Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil and Death Cab for Cuties Ben Gibbard. A lot of albums with this sound are easily [...]

This is bizarre, in fact it’s completely and utterly peculiar, but that is what makes it so spectacular. It’s a complete mish mash of things that shouldn’t work, but it does. It’s not always a delight to the ears but sometimes it is… sort of. DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek have decided to look outside [...]

I think everyone’s beginning to appreciate dubstep that little bit more at the moment, with the likes of Skream, Rusko and Joker being posted all over Radio1, however contrary to popular belief it goes much further. I’ve heard people label it as “boring”, “repetitive” and “annoying” but I guess that’s a matter of opinion. The [...]