After going from bookies favourites to being pushed aside by Paul Weller in the odds race The xx have tonight (September 7th) taken home the Mercury Prize for their debut album xx. Released over a year ago now the album became a sleeper hit and took a while to break into the mainstream but once [...]
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Although I’m sure anyone who wanted to listen to The Suburbs already has you can now stream the album in it’s entirety thanks to NPR. The Suburbs, which seems to have seen a flurry of generally positive reviews so far, is quite possibly the most anticipated album of the year thanks to the band’s already [...]
So, as I’m sure many of you have already heard, this years Mercury Prize nominees have now been announced. After the shock win by Speech Debelle last year it’ll be interesting to see who the panel of critics decide upon from this years collection of albums, which are; Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions Corinne Bailey [...]
The first acts for this years Tramlines Festival in Sheffield, which will be taking place between Friday 23rd and Sunday 25th of July, have recently been announced. Headliners for the multi-venue event will so far include the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, Mystery Jets, Simian Mobile Disco (DJ set), Future of the Left, Blood [...]
After all the controversy surrounding the ‘Born Free’ video M.I.A is back with another teaser as well as fresh details on her upcoming new album. Now officially titled as ‘/\/\/\Y/\’ (MAYA) the album has been pushed back a couple of weeks and will now be released July 13th (most likely 12th here in the UK). [...]
So after my article looking for some more contributors here at Indiescreet it gives me great pleasure to fully introduce the great new contributors we have on board. First up we have Philadephia based photographer and interviewer Taylor Farnsworth who has been sharing some great articles with us for a few months now. Check out [...]
