Weekly new roundup - 12/08/13 ft. No Age, Hey!Rabbit, Drenge, M83, Best Friends, 65daysofstatic and more!

No Age's full upcoming record, 'An Object' to stream below. Need we add more?

We did indeed mention Drenge's newest song, 'Face Like a Skull' two weeks back. They've only gone and made a video for it!

Art is Hard, another one of our fave DIY labels are releasing the new double A side single from Best Friends, on 23 September, entitled 'Happy Anniversary/Nosebleeds. Listen to the first half below.


M83 have revealed a brand new video for 'Claudia Lewis' taken from their double album 'Hurry Up We're Dreaming'. Directed by Bruce Dallas-Howard, this is a sci-fi/high school themed blue haired slab off visual candy.

You may or not know, but 7th September will be the first-ever Cassette Store Day. The event has been described as “a celebration of a physical product that is accessible, fun, cheap and still going strong in the turbulent current musical climate”. The release list is looking stellar, with some fuzzy goodness from At The Drive-In, Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu, Fear Of Men, Playlounge and loads more. Get your pencils ready! Full release list HERE

Lo-fi wrestling obsessed couple, Hey!Rabbit have a new recording and it sounds spliffing.

White Denim have revealed details of their upcoming album, Corsicana Lemonade. To be released on 28 October, you can listen to ‘Pretty Green’ – the first track to be previewed below.

65daysofstatic have let loose several teasers revealing details on their forthcoming new album and our sources can now confirm that the album will be titled ‘Wild Light’ and is going to be released on the 16th September 2013. Teaser trailer goodness -

No One Knows What is Happening from 65daysofstatic on Vimeo.

Weekly news roundup ft. Girls Names, Factory Floor, Drenge, POND, Fuck Buttons, Octopuses

Belfast four-piece Girls Names have released in collaboration with Factory Floor, who has remixed album track 'Projektions', adding FF's characteristic dance floor focus to Girls Names' motorik groove.


The track is taken from forthcoming EP, The Next Life,  a collection of remixes that will be released later this year on Tough Love (Europe) and Girls Names will also be playing a host of European festival dates, as below. More tour dates to be added soon.
August
4th - Castlepalooza, Tullamore -
16th - Soundrive Festival, Gdansk

17th - Green Man Festival, Glanusk, Wales

September

13th - Debaser, Stockholm

14th - Phonofestival, Bergen

27th - The MAC, Belfast

28th - Pacrock Festival, Brussels

With their much anticipated eponymous debut LP hurtling our way all too soon, the brothers Eoin and Rory Loveless, aka Drenge, are now pulling out yet another rock-hard diamond in the rough from their formidable arsenal. Their new single "Face Like a Skull" is out on 26th August. Listen below!

Sarcastic is the debut single from brand new indie pop outfit, Octopuses. Formed by guitarist Adam Bell and multi-instrumentalist Alan Grice of similarly C86-indebted Brighton darlings Foxes!, the single is released through their own Big Salad Records.

'Hobo Rocket' is the fifth LP from Perth, Australia based five-piece Pond. The band set out to make a record that captures a portion of rock music's great, decadent history through a personal lens. Known for their brutally raucous live shows, Pond have captured that intensity on record, cramming as much loose, live emotion into a 40 minute album as possible. 'Hobo Rocket' will be out August 2nd (AUS), August 5th (UK/EU), August 6th (USA). The record is available to listen to in full HERE

Fuck Buttons cracked the UK top 40 album chart! That's amazing news for UK music and for the Fbuttons themselves! We're dead chuffed for them.

#ff ft. Drenge, The Quietus, Cornelius & Vine

Remember when people actually wrote great music based features. Well, The Quietus still do, whilst simultaneously keeping you aflout of all the best music news. Be sure to follow and start discovering why music journalism is as relevant as ever.

We love Cornelius, and whilst he rarely says anything of note on his Facebook, he is a source of goodness on Twitter. Today he's telling us about the new Ghost in a Shell movie soundtrack. Awesome.

"A punky blues-rock duo from the Peak District obsessed with Danish avant-garde cinema". This brotherly twosome make quite a fantastic noise, and if they're not updating you with musical news, they'll be telling you about a cool bus they saw.

Well, we're Vine purists. We've been loving the Twitter spawned app, and we think everyone should be on it. For us, the creativity and ease of use afforded to owners with six seconds is quite unique. Today they've introduced a ghosting feature. Nice.