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We chew the fat with The Horrors on their recent Australian tour about last year’s remarkable second album Primary Colours, and their thoughts on cover versions: “I think it’s a funny idea that this is a conversation you’re more likely to have now than at any other time in the history of rock ’n’ roll, considering most bands really started playing cover versions, being The Beatles or The Stones or even the Sex Pistols. It was something that was just kind of part and parcel of being in a group and part of a live repertoire.”

The smell of reunion is in the air as Pavement’s back catalogue is harvested for the new-comers in this career-spanning collection.

Shearwater seem to have run aground on The Golden Archipelago. Not quite paradise, nor a place you’ll likely return to soon.

Oh, rock me, rock me, The New Pornographers. Now this is more like it. After the, I don’t wanna say disappointment, but there I said it, of Challengers, Carl, Dan, Neko and co are back in speaker blowing return to form with this the first taste from their forthcoming album Together, released May 3/4 through [...]

Sultry New York electro-pop quartet Cold Cave are set to tour Europe this May, beginning their journey at the Matt Groening-curated ATP Festival and finishing up at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival. To coincide Matador Records are to release Cold Cave live favourite ‘Life Magazine’ as a 12″ featuring a number of high profile guest remixes. The video clip itself is something of a burlesque make-up tutorial as if filmed by Andy Warhol, but it’s actually directed by Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell (Focus Creeps) and stars Marti Domination, star of Matthew Barney’s ‘Cremaster’ (she played Goodyear) and main protagonist on the cover sleeve of Cold Cave’s Love Come Close album.

Having released one of Webcuts favourite albums of 2010, The Big Pink begin the new decade with another single, this time a reworking of album track “Velvet”, set for a full commercial release on February 15th.

Released on February 15th, (9th in North America) The Golden Archipelago is the third album in a triptych of beautiful and ambitious excursions about man’s impact on the natural world from Austin’s Shearwater. This time singer-songwriter Jonathan Meiburg turns his attention to life on islands – a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden [...]

Bradford Cox of Deerhunter makes us seem like we’re slavishly supportive of everything his hand touches, but we mean every word. Honest.

Standing tall in the face of tragedy, Magic Dirt compile a lucky dip of new, rare and unreleased tracks to coincide with their recent tour.

Having had the release of his first solo album The Real Feel eclipsed by that of the forthcoming Pavement reunion and scramble to get tickets, Spiral Stairs would probably be feeling a little robbed, but then again come next year, as the reunion-cash floods in, whatsitgonnamatter? “Stolen Pills” is a kinda The Fall meets Flying Nun records hybird, jangling guitars and distorted vocals. It’s a sweet return to the ragged lo-fi rock of Pavement, and is a firm two fingers in the face of the prog-noodling of his ex-counterpart Stephen Malkmus. Stolen Pills, I love’em. The Real Feel is out on Domino Records this week.