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The two fingered salute is vigorously given by Scottish anti-folk hero King Creosote on new album Flick the Vs.

Fourth album in from these Mancunian maestros, offering a slight return to their electro/house days as Sub Sub.

Manchester’s Doves return this week with their long awaited fourth album Kingdom of Rust. We present you with the first single and title track, a broody concept video that suits the towering Doves song a little too well. Road trip anyone?

Put this in your “Exciting News of the Day” basket like we have, as on 27th April, Domino Records will release “Coast On By”, the fantastic first single taken from King Creosote’s new album, Flick The Vs, which rather oddly is released a week earlier on 20th April. Why do record companies insist on doing [...]

V Festival The behemoth of the V Festival roles into the country at the end of the month. It features the usual mix of mainstream and up and coming rock/pop and electronic acts including The Killers, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Elbow, The Human League, Madness, M83, Louis XIV, Howling Bells, The Kills and more. Apr [...]

Arriving on the scene way back in 2002 with the gritty Black Rooster EP, The Kills took the garage rock aesthetic and beat it down, creating a skin and bones strut that stank of sex and cigarettes. In the following years, The Kills haven’t strayed too far from their original lo-fi blues/rock blueprint, yet still [...]

Read our review of Oozevoodoo Brisbane’s favourite sons, The Scare, are back with the first tastes from their new album, oozevoodoo. Since the release of their debut album Chivalry in 2007, the band have been in a never-ending state of being broke and homeless. Those close to the band who are still scrubbing Scare-stink off [...]

The highlight of The Kills’ Midnight Boom LP, “Black Balloon”, is a slow burner either about a relationship going south, or an allusion to heroin use. Whatever your take it’s a shining example of “less is more” — a simple guitar line, a restrained vocal performance, and hand claps — producing magic. It’s being released in the UK on the Black Balloon EP (10″ format, 23 March) while Australia gets a 7″ of “Tape Song” / “London Hates You” (13 March).

As Conor Oberst once proclaimed, “M. Ward for President”. As far-fetched as it sounds, Oberst may have a point.

We shan’t be coy: We’ve adored Okkervil River ever since Black Sheep Boy crept up on us almost four years ago. 2007′s The Stage Names was named one of our favourite albums of that year and likewise last year’s The Stand In’s also received a coverted placing in our top 25 poll. The fabulous Austin [...]