Shrag - Rabbit Kids - Promo Video

Shrag's brand new album Life! Death! Prizes! is out on 4 October. Here's their brand new video for the radio hit "Rabbit Kids". Also keep your eyes peeled for their Album of the Month review in the next issue of Artrocker!

Bearsuit - new single, new line-up, new sound!

bearsuit
please don't take him back
7" and download single
Fortuna Pop!
25 October 2010

Fresh from a line-up change and an invigorated sound, BEARSUIT are back with a brand new single. Please Don’t Take Him Back is the debut single from their forthcoming new album The Phantom Forest, which will be released on Fortuna Pop! on 25 October. To celebrate the band will be playing a few live dates:

October
Sat 9 – Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes – LONDON
Sat 16 – Take 5 – NORWICH
Weds 20 – Buffalo Bar – LONDON
Fri 22 – Big Blue Coffee Company – DERBY
Sat 23 (day) – Edinburgh Pop Fest, The GRV – EDINBURGH
Sat 23 – Newcastle Arts Centre – NEWCASTLE
Weds 27 – The Basement – CHELMSFORD
Fri 29 – The Red House – SHEFFIELD
Sat 30 – Night and Day Cafe – MANCHESTER
Sun 31 – Buffalo Bar – CARDIFF

http://www.bearsuit.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/bearsuit

Vatican Cellars - MP3 from forthcoming debut album

for September you lucky lucky people can download the first single from the VATICAN CELLARS' debut album - BITTER PLANS

www.wiaiwya.com

BITTER PLANS will appeal to fans of TIM HARDIN, the LILAC TIME and NICK DRAKE; a georgeous lament to loss and its accompanying guilt. It's an English gent's soul music, an angry acoustic politely strummed, and a cello part to break you heart... Utterly beautiful...

it's coupled with a cover of VAN HALEN's RUNNIN' WITH THE DEVIL... it's cockrockchamberpop... oh, yes... i said COCKROCKCHAMBERPOP... it's the new thing, and all the kids are doing it...

http://www.myspace.com/thevaticancellars

The Piney Gir Country Roadshow - Jesus Wept - 18 October

Just to let you know that I'm going to be helping out with the new release from The Piney Gir Country Roadshow, Jesus Wept, on Damaged Goods. The release date has been put back to 18 October 2010, so let me know if you'd like a copy of the album or if you're able to review or cover in any way. Piney and the gang will be playing some London gigs soon, so let me know if you'd like to come along or are able to write about 'em here:

7th Sept The Lexington, London
3rd Oct 100 Club, London (with Fabienne Delsol)

The queen of country/indie, Piney Gir lasso's in her Country Roadshow to create a fabulously luscious sound with nods to Emmy Lou Harris, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton.

More info here;
http://www.pineygir.com/

SHRAG - "Tights in August" for August

Have a listen to this sneaky-peak of the brand new material from Brighton/London indie pop band SHRAG. Their new album "Life! Death! Prizes!" is due for release in October.

"Tights In August" is their first 'single' available as a free download throughout the month of August from their label's website here: http://www.wiaiwya.com/

Direct link here

The single 'sleeve' is a delightful re-hash of the old Mary Quant tights packages.

Here's their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/shrag

The Holidays - Golden Sky 7"

The Passport Label - 7”/download
23 August 2010

The Passport Label is thrilled to be teaming up with Sydney band, The Holidays, for its latest 7" release in 23 August.

Having emerged from their Sydney studio just in time for the British summer, The Holidays present Golden Sky - a sun-drenched tune that channels warm nights and cloudless skies. The song blends wild percussion, sing-a-long chant choruses, falsetto vocals and squawking guitars into an action-packed, yet equally sublime journey.

B-side “Heavy Feathers” complements the lead track perfectly. A little more downbeat than the elation of “Golden Sky”, “Heavy Feathers” is a dreamy, hazy come-down evoking the relaxed atmosphere of The Caribbean.
The Golden Sky single consolidates The Holidays' foray into an exciting new direction that genuinely stakes their claim as one of the most exciting new bands in the Australia. Remixes of their track “Moonlight Hours” by Modular new kids on the block Jonathon Boulet and The Swiss have also attracted generous lashings of hyperbole in the blogoshere. The latter recently appeared on an exclusive NME download Mixtape complied by UK disco/electro wunder-kid Grum, and made much-loved Belgian remixers Aeroplane’s February Chart podcast.

Golden Sky will sit comfortably on The Holidays’ forthcoming debut album, which is nearing completion and has been self-produced by the band and mixed by Tony Espie (Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy, Avalanches). The album is shaping up to be a thrilling musical ride traversing a myriad of influences and genres that ultimately will see light of day as a groove-based record full of summer vibes, elec-tropical dance floor anthems and mellow, breezy melodies.


http://www.myspace.com/theholidays

WRECKLESS ERIC & AMY RIGBY

WRECKLESS ERIC & AMY RIGBY

Two-Way Family Favourites

30 August 2010 – Southern Domestic Recordings


Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby are a two-piece rock and roll group who have individually been making distinctive and original music for decades: he a British iconoclast and wild-card survivor of the early Stiff Records, she as a long-standing heroine of the New York pop scene. Their 2008 debut album Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby and their live show have enjoyed rapturous critical acclaim in the US, UK & Europe. Now they're back with Two-Way Family Favourites, a shimmering collection of songs written by other artists - to be released 30 August 2010 on their own Southern Domestic Recordings label and supported with a UK tour.

"When we started playing together, we hoped to get work as a covers band playing in bars in France – but when people heard our version of playing covers they were confused. So we knew we were on to something."

Wreckless Eric recorded the legendary single “Whole Wide World” back in 1977. Since then he has made countless albums in different guises, moving between bubblegum, pop, grunge, psychedelia and techno, but always remaining true to the DIY spirit of his early days on Stiff.

Amy Rigby started a country band in eighties New York City, went on to form girl group The Shams, and began her solo career in 1996 with the US hit album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. Her five solo albums embrace pop, country, folk-rock, psychedelia and the indefinable.

With Two-Way Family Favourites the duo continue to develop their warped, harmony-rich sound. There are no other musicians involved – Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby accompany themselves with electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, keyboards and percussion.



"... their loopy, layered approach, keenly turning conventional boy/girl pop-group convention on ear, sinks in deep." UNCUT

"The static-riddled spiritedness highlights their individual quirks as well as the easy chemistry between the pair." Pitchfork



UK Tour Dates (more dates to be announced probably)

Friday 20 Aug Bedford Rhythm Festival

Saturday 21 Aug Coventry Taylor John's House
Friday 10 Sept Nottingham Rescue Rooms

Friday 17 Sept Glasgow Stereo

Saturday 18 Sept Hyde, Cheshire The Verge

Friday 24 Sept London The Lexington

Saturday 25 Sept Bury Lancs The Met

Tuesday 28 Sept Winchester The Railway



http://www.myspace.com/wrecklessericamyrigby


http://www.amyrigby.com/wrecklessericamyrigby.html