Amor de Días - Street of the Love of Days - debut album out June

Amor de Días (Spanish for 'love of days') is the name of the—until now—secret new group of Alasdair MacLean of the Clientele and Lupe Núñez-Fernández of Pipas. Street of the Love of Days, their debut album, will be released in the UK on 17 May as a digital download and 13 June on CD.

Finding common ground as painters as well as musicians, and having regularly appeared onstage together (often with Lupe reading the text of The Clientele's 'Losing Haringey') they decided to collaborate on a project of their own.

Wandering in Madrid, Alasdair noticed a street sign for Calle del Amor de Dios, which he mistakenly translated as "Street of the Love of Days". The name struck him as a great title, even after Lupe corrected him (he was actually on the Street of the Love of God).

At times spare and empty, at times rich with instrumental texture, at times jazz-tinged and hypnotic, Street of the Love of Days is of a quality to rival anything either Alasdair or Lupe has recorded before.

The band will be heading out for an extensive US tour with Damon and Naomi in the spring and will play some UK dates when they return in June including these:

Sat 8 June, Union Chapel, opening for Howe Gelb with A Band of Gypsies

http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/events.php?gig=8e298ae4-79f2-483d-af88-6cf5d19ef553

Sun 12 June @ The Lexington, London (afternoon album launch, free)

Fri 17 June @ Scandinavian Church, Liverpool

Sat 30 July, Indietracks, (near Derby)

http://www.indietracks.co.uk

Links:

http://www.amordedias.com/

Press photos/bios/media etc:

http://www.amordedias.com/press

COMET GAIN - new album out in May

Fearlessly passionate and fiercely intelligent, Comet Gain are back with their brand new album Howl of the Lonely Crowd to be released via Fortuna POP! on 16 May 2011, with production by Edwyn Collins and Ryan Jarman of The Cribs.

Led by songwriter David Feck, Comet Gain have released a string of critically acclaimed records on Kill Rock Stars, Track & Field and What’s Your Rupture? - albums such as Tigertown Pictures, Réalistes, City Fallen Leaves and 2008’s singles collection Broken Record Prayers establishing the band as one of the most fearlessly passionate and fiercely intelligent British bands around. The current line up comprises David Charlie Feck (vocals, guitar), ex-Huggy Bear bassist Jon Slade (guitar), Rachel Evans (vocals), Kay Ishikawa (bass), ex-Morrissey/The Meteors drummer Woodie Taylor (percussion), Anne Laure Guillain (keyboards), and Ben Phillipson of The Eighteenth Day Of May (guitar).

Unapologetically literate and emotional, Comet Gain seek out inspiration and ballast as much in the music of the girl-group era pop, heartfelt Americana, british post-punk, and 60s psych rock, as in the words of the known and forgotten beat poets, kitchen sink dramas, and new-wave French arthouse cinema. From The Modern Lovers, Felt, The Go-Betweens, Big Star, and the Byrds, to Kerouac, Shelagh Delaney, and Godard, the band are influenced by an incessant drive to “distill the spirit, and those moments of musical defiance” by “recalling old stories of friends, of being lonely, and what kept you sane; finding a common ground, taking a deep breath and then picking up our guitars and singing these songs.“

http://www.fortunapop.com

HELP STAMP OUT LONELINESS

Where It's At Is Where You Are and Papillons Noir are proud to present the heart-poundingly beautiful, eponymous debut LP from Manchester's sublime sextet Help Stamp Out Loneliness which came out this month.

With the glorious opening bars of 'Cottonopolis + Promises' (a bittersweet 'Dear John' letter to their surrogate city of Manchester) it becomes increasingly noticeable that HSOL aren't your standard indie-fare.

Fronted by the striking, Nico-esque singer D. Lucille against a glittering backdrop of transistor organs and jangle-pop guitars, their alluringly seductive songs shield lyrics that flicker between stories of rock-star stalkers (‘Record Shop’) and cringe-inducing alfresco sex (‘Biergarten’); to heartfelt paeans to the days of audio cassettes on ‘Cellophane’ and meditations on the domestic lives of Nico and John Cooper Clarke on the aforementioned ‘Cottonopolis + Promises’.

The first single to be taken from the album is the marvellously catchy ‘Record Shop’, a sinister chanson inspired by Sandra Bernhard’s character from Scorsese’s ‘King of Comedy’.

With a second session on Marc Riley's show on 6 music the day after release, the album received plaudits from The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, Artrocker and many others, including album of the week on Soundblab, a fantastic feature on God is in the TV and loads of other online coverage. Stay tuned for more dates and info!

http://www.wiaiwya.com

Crystal Stilts - new album and single

CRYSTAL STILTS
album - In Love With Oblivion - April
single - Through The Floor - March

UK DATES:
24/3 – Brighton – Audio
25/3 – Bristol – Start the Bus
26/3 – Manchester - Ruby Lounge
27/3 – Glasgow – Arches
28/3 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
29/3 – Birmingham – Bar Academy
30/3 – London – Cargo
(with Comet Gain + The Tamborines)

Crystal Stilts’ new album In Love with Oblivion will be released in the UK on 11 April 2011 on Fortuna POP!.

Crystal Stilts burst out of Brooklyn's storied post-punk indie scene in 2008 with a string of releases that culminated in their fantastic debut album Alight Of Night. Deftly combining the spooked 60s Texas psych of 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola, the gothic blues/punk howl of Gun Club, the dark, experimental DIYism of early Flying Nun/Xpressway groups and a dash of classic 60s pop by way of early Mary Chain b-sides, Alight Of Night won universal accolades and established the band as first-class purveyors of haunting, atmospheric post-punk pop. In Love With Oblivion sets the bar even higher as they reach dizzying, fuzzy heights as first class purveyors of haunting, atmospheric post-punk pop.

The Primitives - Rattle My Cage

http://the-primitives.co.uk/
http://www.fortunapop.co.uk

With their first new recordings since 1992, The Primitives are back with a fantastic new record, the Never Kill A Secret EP to be released on Fortuna POP! in March 2011. With a new lease of life after successfully touring the UK in 2010, the band decided to write and record some new material. The four tracks on the new EP include the fuzzified girlpop stomper of the lead track “Rattle My Cage” and the cute little Velvets-y heart-melter “Never Kill A Secret”, along with two covers, Suzi Jane Hokom’s Lee Hazlewood-penned “Need All the Help I can Get” and Toni Basil’s Northern Soul classic “Breakaway”. March also sees the band embark on a full UK tour.

TOUR DATES:
Wed 16 Mar – UK – Southampton – Joiners Arms
Thu 17 Mar – UK – Cambridge – Haymakers
Fri 18 Mar – UK – Bristol – Start the Bus
Sat 19 Mar – UK – York – Fibbers
Sun 20 Mar – UK – Glasgow – The Arches
Mon 21 Mar – UK – Manchester – Moho
Wed 23 Mar – UK – Birmingham – Academy
Thu 24 Mar – UK – London – Garage

Piney Gir Country Roadshow 'Lucky Me' Official Promo Video

Valentines Day saw the release of the second single "Lucky Me" from The Piney Gir Country Roadshow's latest album Jesus Wept plus it’s backed (in a digital way…you see) with an exclusive UK release of Piney’s desert-rock reworking of the Billy Idol classic "White Wedding" and the original demo version of "Lucky Me" recorded live at Truck Studios with an unlikely band of merry pranksters.

The lovely new video for "Lucky Me" is now available. Country Roadshow guitarist Garo Nahoulakian made the puppets, Jeremy Fowler filmed/edited the video, Jiro Nahoulakian, Garo and Piney were the puppeteers.

The Piney Gir Country Roadshow headline the Country Girl All-Dayer at the Lexington in London on 20th March.

• Sunday, March 20 Country Girl All-Dayer - The Piney Gir Country Roadshow, The Cedars, Adeline Vesta, The Werewandas, Eliza Newman 5pm £7, adv £5

  An all-dayer featuring dulcet-toned Kansas vocalist Piney Gir and her Country Roadshow.
  Support from the UK based Alt-Americana quartet, The Cedars with soaring vocals, infectious rhythms and blasts of slide guitar and banjo. Plying tales of lost love, revenge and rural homicide, The Cedars manage to straddle the divide between the dancehalls of the 20's and 30's and what's going on in the scene right now.
  Adeline Vesta play folk-rock, indie and alt-country with Sarah from The Research and Go Team! percussionist Chi
  The Werewandas play harmonious country-billy indie-garage foot-tapping stompers.
  Eliza Newman is an Icelandic violinist, ukelele and piano player, and is also a trained opera singer (formerly of Bellatrix) who'll play some ukulele accompanied quirky folk-pop.
  plus DJing from Radio 6/ The Other Woman's Ruth Barnes plus Amy Ashworth and Amanda.

BEARSUIT - WHEN WILL I BE QUEEN (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

As Royal wedding fever grips the nation, dance-punk five-piece Bearsuit releases their new single When Will I Be Queen? on February 28. But an ode for Kate Middleton this ain’t. Unless you’d find “no more waity” boozing it up with broken heels and smudged mascara to a Tech Noir soundtrack of filthy bass, killer beats, schizophrenic vocals and sinister synths on her hen night.

he new single comes ahead of the band’s eagerly anticipated album The Phantom Forest on March 14 on Fortuna POP! The 12-track long-player heralds a fierce new sound for the band, who have swapped violins, flutes and horns for dirty synths, urgent guitars and infectious beats in the light of a dramatic line-up change. With a sprinkling of sonic dust from big-time producer Gareth Parton (The Go Team, Breeders, Foals) the band have created a perfectly off-the-wall pop masterpiece.

The band are heading to SXSW later this month and have been raising funds via the website http://www.wefund.co.uk/project/bearsuit-sxsw. For £1000 they'll even change their band name, to the name of their sponsor for a month.

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