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Promo Promo: Pond - Elvis' Flaming Star

New album from Tame Impala cohorts Pond on the way in Jan - Man It Feels Like Space Again

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23rd Nov 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: TV on the Radio

Pee-wee enhanced video up for Happy Idiot, from the new TV on the Radio album Seeds, due on November 17th. Also check out Careful You, where Tunde barely scrapes through the Chimpomatic no-singing-in-French rule-of-thumb.

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7th Oct 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Real Estate

Old school high concept/low budget video for Real Estate's track 'Crime'. Watch out for the Blood-sucking-extreme-sports-enthusiasts.

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22nd Aug 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Tweedy

Here's a promo for Jeff Tweedy's new band Tweedy - featuring his son Spencer on drums. The album is out September 26th, and they're releasing a new track every week if you pre-order.

Playing the Palladium in November.

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11th Aug 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Spoon

Nicely shot promo for the new Spoon single "Do You?" from the new album "They Want My Soul" - due out on August 4th. Looking forward to that one.

Read our interview with Spoon here.

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22nd Jul 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The Black Keys - Fever

New album Turn Blue coming May 12, and here they are in session for Zane Lowe with Bullet In The Brain...

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6th May 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: White Denim - At Night In Dreams

New single from @whitedenimmusic - released 14 April via Downtown; they're back in the UK in May - worth catching if you haven't seen them. 

Tue 20 May Bristol Anson Rooms £16
Wed 21 May Liverpool East Village Arts Club £16
Thu 22 May Edinburgh The Caves £16
Fri 23 May Leeds The Cockpit £16 SOLD OUT
Sat 24 May Newcastle Upon Tyne Hoults Yard £16
Mon 26 May Birmingham Glee Club £16
Tue 27 May Brighton Concorde 2 £16
Wed 28 May London Shepherd’s Bush Empire £17.50

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2nd Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

This album is on repeat all day in Chimp Towers at the moment. 

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20th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Future Islands - Seasons

This Letterman performance from the 4AD act is getting a lot of love... 

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10th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Pink Mountaintops - Ambulance City

Power up your front-loaders and check the max-VHS resolution for the new Pink Mountaintops vid which seems to be co-starring 1970s Ron Wood; album Get Back is out Apr 29.

McBean overheard Jaffe drunkenly bragging in a backyard about her state of the art 80's VHS camera. Ambulance City will mark the first time they've worked together since 1431 while serving drinks at Joan of Arc's execution.

Inspired by Swedish Erotica, Cpl. Klinger, and totes non-poser aspirations.

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4th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The Horrors - I See You

First single from The Horrors' fourth album Luminous, out on May 5th.
Pre-orders: www.thehorrors.co.uk

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25th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: ian vine - static form

static form (2013)
for electric guitar and electronics
recorded in one take with no overdubs

composed & recorded 20 July 2013
released 22 July 2013
Ian Vine: guitar, electronics
recorded at first moon

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20th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Broken Bells - Holding On for Life (Pseudo Video)

Quite enjoying this screensaver trend in pre-release promos. New Broken Bells album After The Disco out January 2014

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5th Nov 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: 3D On Jupiter

Beefy solo track from Massive Attack's 3D with Congolese musician Jupiter.

Says 3D: "In 2007 I went to the Congo with Africa Express. I was lucky to hang out and listen to some pretty amazing musicians, Jupiter among them.

"This track is built with an unknown modular synth from Munich, a Moog and a Vermona drum machine, with help from Euan Dickinson and Tim Goldsworthy. And mixes by Bruno Ellingham. I wanted to mirror the energy and message in the song without complicating it. The b-side is a more relaxed and melodic using a Prophet 5 and a jupiter 8.

It is the second release on the Battle Box label, which is made and distributed through The Vinyl Factory. Paul Insect has designed the covers and label art. Everything is screenprinted and limited in number."

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18th Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Jonathan Wilson - Dear Friend

Hippies rocking out in what looks like an underground nuclear bunker in the Grand Canyon - what's not to like? Fanfare is Mr Wilson's follow-up to the mellow Laurel Canyon vibes of 2011's Gentle Spirit.

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18th Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Pearl Jam

Via @coslive. "It’s easy to picture Friday Night Lights hero Tim Riggins cruising around Dillon, TX with this one blaring from his truck."

Another single of the forthcoming Pearl Jam album Lightning Bolt. They're getting more and more like the 90s band people think they are.

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20th Sep 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Volcano Choir - Comrade

New one from Bon Iver's other project, album out in September

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16th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Goat - Dreambuilding

Managed to miss them at Glastonbury, but kept hearing good things about Swedish psych-freaks GOAT

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3rd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Kurt Vile - KV Crimes

Kurt Vile plays out his own version of Game Of Thrones in this video. Loving this album. 

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11th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead

Empty landscapes and lens flares? Yes, there's a new Boards Of Canada album out, and here's a video for one of the tracks.

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10th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Joe Goddard Ft. Mara Carlyle - She Burns

Can't think of many other songs that use the word "goose". Out on Greco-Roman later in the year.

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5th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Lightning Dust - Diamond

First video from the new Lightning Dust album Fantasy out June 25. MPfree here

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22nd May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Black Sabbath - Together Again

They're back (in black). "The whole thing's been memorable. I'll probably forget it next month..." Feat. Rick Rubin as rock's OG Ben Gunn.

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30th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Biting Elbows

Bit slow on the uptake with this fun, ultra-violent POV promo for Russian band Biting Elbows. #NSFW

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18th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Grim Towers - Reign Down / Lighting Dust - Diamond

Been hoping there would be some new Black Mountain Army activiity soon - and look - here's two side projects on the horizon... Grim Tower finds Stephen McBean on a freaky "New Acoustic Death Folk" trip in the snow with Imaad Wasif. Album Anarchic Breezes is out May 21. "Let the free ride the breeze"? Right on, snow bros. Meanwhile Black Mountain's mellower wing Lightning Dust (Amber Webber and Josh Wells) are heading into Fleetwood Mac territory with Diamond, the first one from their new album Fantasy - out June 25. Various pre-order download options available. Should just about tide us over while we wait for a new Stormy High to finish off the giant mecha-smackdown playlist.

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13th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Parquet Courts - Stoned And Starving

Big news at this year's SXSW by all accounts. Most of the tracks on Light Up Gold don't get past the 2 min mark, so this one's clearly their Sister Ray. File under Pavement/Sonic Youth/Etc

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12th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Chochukmo - Good Night

Some Cornelius/Aztec Camera/Phoenix/Primus nods from @Chochukmo - Hong Kong indie kids. New album A Tragedy Your Majesty out soon.

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11th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Epic, #NSFW video starring @LilyCole for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs track Sacrilege.

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27th Mar 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

First track from the new John Grant album; good beard, good songs, out Mar 11. Got to love the chorus for GMF: "I am the greatest motherfucker that you're ever going to meet" 

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4th Mar 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Steve Mason - Oh My Lord

New single from the ex-Beta Band/King Biscuit Time man. Album Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time out March 18

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1st Mar 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Atoms For Peace - Ingenue

Thom Y getting to do his bleepdance in a Gilbert & George style, directed by Garth Jennings

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28th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: St Vincent - Bad Girls

St Vincent covers a song from Bob's Burgers

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13th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Beck - Sound + Vision

Beck covers the Bowie track with a 157-piece orchestra

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11th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The Asphodells - Beglammered

Like the old-school stock footage feel to this video for Andrew Weatherall's new project

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8th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

My Bloody Valentine - MBV

First new MBV album for 22 years is actually out, complete with authentic 90s lowercase font. The site seemed to be pretty overloaded last night, but working now. If you want a taster, their YouTube page has streams of the whole lot.

The album is available in three formats:
180 gram vinyl + CD + digital download of your choice £18
CD + digital download of your choice £13
digital download of your choice £9

The digital download will be available in the following file types:
16bit 44.1 K WAV file (cd quality)
320kbps MP3
24bit 96 K WAV file

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3rd Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Animal Collective x @LindseyWixson x Gasper Noe x Paul Sharitz

Gaspar Noé has directed the latest Animal Collective promo, for the track 'Applesauce'. The video stars model Lindsey Wixson and is intended to be watched in the dark - primarily to make use of Paul Sharits' film-as-film classic N.O.T.H.I.N.G. Trippy.

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30th Jan 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: David Bowie - Where Are We Now?

Happy Birthday David Bowie... He's back, with a new single, album on the way. Really thought he'd retired for good. Vimeo needs a bit more data though...

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8th Jan 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet