Primavera 2014 Line-Up

 The Primavera Sound 2014 Line-Up was announced tonight, and my god is it good.  I won’t lie, I would have thought that Outkast would have been playing it considering that they’re doing 40 festivals and this one just seems to cry out for an act like them, but I’m very happy with what’s left.  I also expected Beck to possibly be there, but again, the rest of the acts make up for it.

The Hold Steady to Release First Album In 4 Years

The Hold Steady have announced that they will be following up the excellent 2010 album Heaven is Whenever with a new LP titled Teeth Dreams, which is due for release on March 25th.

Wild Beasts Release New Track & Announce New Album + Tour

Last night, Wild Beasts released the first single to be taken from their new LP Present Tense, which was announced this morning.  You’ll find the video for ‘Wanderlust’ at the bottom of this post.  Off first impressions, it’s great and has got me pretty excited for the release of the new album, which is due on the 24th of February.

Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) Loses Everything in Apartment Fire

Dev Hynes, currently of Blood Orange, previously of Test-Icicles and Lightspeed Champion, lost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his New York apartment last night.  In the blaze he lost music that he was working on, his clothes, sentimental items and even his new pet dog ‘Cupid’.

Tweeting earlier today, Dev said “Last night, the unthinkable happened. My entire apt burnt down while I was out. I’ve lost everything I own, including scores, hard drives.. clothes, sentimental items. Everything from my life is gone.  My dog died in the fire. I will love you forever Cupid. I miss you.”

I wouldn’t normally post about news outside of music and I was never really a fan of Dev during his Test-Icicles and early Lightspeed Champion days, but this is a pretty awful thing to happen to someone.  If you’d like to help out, his girlfriend’s mother has set up a page that you can donate to – here.

The Dead Weather release first new music in 3 years

Due to it being the Christmas season, new posts may be coming a little slower than usual, considering that I have no gigs and no new album releases to write about.

However there was a little bit of news over the weekend.  One of Jack White’s many musical outlets ‘The Dead Weather’ released their first new music since 2010, which was the year they released the excellent album ‘Sea of Cowards’.  The two tracks released (which can be found at the bottom of the post) are ‘Open Up (That’s Enough)’ and ‘Rough Detective’.

Timber Timbre to release ‘Hot Dreams’ on April 1st

Waking up to see that Timber Timbre have announced a new album ‘Hot Dreams’, that will released on April 1st next year, pleased me greatly this morning.  It’s a follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Creep on Creepin’ On’ that was released back in 2011 and was easily one of my favourites of that year.

New St Vincent album to be released in February

I’ve seen the good news this morning that St Vincent is set to release her self titled new album on February 24th of next year.  The release will be her fourth and will follow on from ‘Strange Mercy’ which was released in 2011.

The Walkmen go on Indefinite Hiatus

I’ve just read about one of my favourite live acts, The Walkmen, going on an Indefinite Hiatus and I must admit that I’m pretty sad about it!

Bassist Peter Bauer was quoted as saying:

“We really just have no idea. I don’t think any of us wanted to write another Walkmen record. Maybe that will change down the line, maybe it won’t, maybe we’ll play shows. I think it’s weird to make a hubbub about something if there’s nothing to really make a hubbub about. At the same time, I don’t think we’ve been a gang properly for a long time, so there’s not much to break up, I guess.”