Following their performance at the GRAMMY’s last week, Denver-based band The Lumineers sold over 66 thousand copies of their GRAMMY-nominated self-titled debut album to achieve Platinum sales status. Since its release last April by Dualtone, the album has sold over 1 million total records, and this week was #6 on the overall Billboard chart. The
‘Translators for our imploding society’ was how Artrocker described CiB’s debut ‘Give Me Walls’. Awarding it album of the month and later an Artrocker album of the year. Since it’s release our world has truly imploded and in many places exploded. All of which has provided much mood for thought for Cold in Berlin’s second LP
The four members of The Away Days, Oguzcan Ozen, Sezer Kic, Berk Tekelioglu and Burak Serter, met in college like most bands. Nothing unusual in that. However, hailing from Istanbul, a city without any real rock or indie scene to speak of, may have made things slightly harder for the indie upstarts. Despite this, in
Indie-Pop 4 piece San Cisco have announce a free download of their track ‘Metaphors’ live from their Facebook app page at here. The band are set to release their second UK single Wild Things through Columbia Records on February 18, 2013. The track is taken from their forthcoming self titled debut album, which is set for a UK release summer
Lewis Watson will release The Wild EP, his third of a series of EPs via Warner Music, on April 2, 2013. The London-based songwriter is known to create music that emanates warmth and optimism and has quickly gained a massive international fanbase with 40K+ fans on Twitter and Facebook. With his previous covers of Bon Iver and Bombay Bicycle Club receiving a
Philadelphia based rock quartet Bleeding Rainbow just released their third LP “Yeah Right” on Kanine Records. Bleeding Rainbow says their sounds was directly influenced by bands from their teenage-hood such as Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and Yo La Tengo to name a few. Mixing hints of Greg Sage’s anthemic, anxiety-ridden punk
Barsuk Records is excited to release Maps & Atlases’ new video for “Fever,” off their latest album Beware & Be Grateful. The clip, which further develops the story of an anonymous man introduced in their album trailer video, was directed by guitarist Erin Elders and produced by drummer Chris Hainey. Maps & Atlases, who just began a
The Grammy Awards in Los Angeles featured some of the best and biggest names in music. In addition to the cool collaborations and memorable performances, some of the bands we covered here came home victorious. Congratulations to former Artists of the Week Mumford & Sons and fun. along with Frank Ocean and on winning two
Savannah Stopover MusicOver 90 bands, most of which are en route to SXSW, will fill Savannah’s clubs and venues with the best up and coming acts. Bands have been hand-curated across multiple genres to represent an ideal microcosm of emerging excellence. Highlights include of Montreal, Chelsea Light Moving (featuring Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth), The
1st March 2013 sees the release of PYRAMIDS debut three track EP ‘Always Something’, which will be celebrated with their first gig – a headline performance at Hoxton’s Underbelly on the same date. Produced by Adam Noble (Muse, Placebo, Guillemots) and mastered by Dick Beetham, the man behind over 45 UK No.1 singles and alt-J,