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Spencer Krug will never get bored – readies another new project: Moonface
Spencer Krug has to be the hardest working man in music, full stop. Seemingly a man who gets bored easily, he’s readying a release from another sideproject, this time under the guise of Moonface . The EP will be called DREAMLAND: MARIMBA AND SHIT-DRUMS and will be released via ...
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Xiu Xiu to release new album
Kill Rock Stars have announced plans to release a new album by Xiu Xiu . It’s going to be called, the rather inspirational, Dear God, I Hate Myself and will see the light of day on the 15th February 2010. According to the press release in front of me, it’s a humanist and ...
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TLOBF Interview :: The Fiery Furnaces
It’s an historic weekend in the US Senate. The majority leader, Democrat Harry Reid from Nevada, garnered exactly the 60 votes he needed to get an official government debate on landmark health care reform legislation in motion, one of the most viciously and idiotically contested priorities ...
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Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
It seems like a long time since Biffy Clyro shook the airwaves with their debut studio album in 2002. Seven years and four more albums on, the hairy Scots still manage to conjure up excitement with their heavy melodic rock. With Garth Robinson at their side, the same producer who worked on ...
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[Stream] Malcolm Middleton: ‘Girl Pop Song EP’
Malcolm Middleton releases a brand new EP today, entitled the Girl Pop Song EP it (funnily enough) features Malcolm covering four of his favourite female fronted acts including The Saturdays and Girls Aloud. The EP is available on limited pink vinyl via Full Time Hobby (where you can also ...
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TLOBF Interview :: Sparky Deathcap
A singer-songwriter who makes his own illustrations is inevitably going to get compared with Jeffrey Lewis, and Sparky Deathcap is no different. The fact remains that the two makes massively different music about similar things. On new EP Tear Jerky , Sparky explores the break-up of a ...
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Shearwater to release new album in February 2010
Texas five-piece Shearwater will return next year with the new album The Golden Archipelego on 15th February (23rd in N. America). The new record is the third panel of a triptych that includes 2006’s Palo Santo and 2008’s acclaimed Rook . Further details and a free MP3 to ...
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The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms / The Good Earth
The Feelies were a bunch of geeky minimalists who are perhaps best known to at least this posterity from the fact that their debut record, Crazy Rhythms sneaked a place on Pitchfork’s best albums list of the 1980s. For my money though, like fuck it should have done – the album ...
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The Rest – Everyone All At Once
The Rest are Hamilton, Ontario born and bred. Of course they are. That sleepy nation of Canada is home to many of modern alternative music’s great heroes, and here’s one more to warm your cockles. So it’s cold and sparse in Canada, right? Yes. But at the same time it is irrevocably ...
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[Download] Lykke Li: ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’
Swedish pop princess Lykke Li has made her achingly beautiful cover of the classic ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ available as a free download via her official website. Originally recorded by The Shirelles and released in 1960 has been covered by dozens of artists including ...
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Gold Panda, Nightwaves and Max Tundra remix Noah and The Whale
Something for the weekend? Nightwaves , Max Tundra and TLOBF fave Gold Panda have all given Noah and The Whale’s ‘Love Of An Orchestra’ the remix treatment. Download all three remixes (plus artwork) using the links below. Gold Panda Nightwaves Max Tundra  ...
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Gold Panda, Nightwaves and Max Tundra remix Noah and The Whale. Download inside…
Something for the weekend? Nightwaves , Max Tundra and TLOBF fave Gold Panda have all given Noah and The Whale’s ‘Love Of An Orchestra’ the remix treatment. Download all three remixes (plus artwork) using the links below. Gold Panda Nightwaves Max Tundra  ...
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Wintersleep announce side-project: Postdata. Album due February 2010.
Wintersleep. Paul Murphy pictured centre. News reaches us that Wintersleep front-man Paul Murphy is due to release a collection of solo material under the pseudonym Postdata . An entirely stripped back affair, the self-titled album will be released via One Four Seven Records on February 1st ...
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[Download] Lawrence Arabia: ‘Beautiful Young Crew’
Well, this is the way to spend a Friday afternoon… We’ve got the latest single from Bella Union darlings Lawrence Arabia for you to download… for FREE! Lawrence Arabia is the pseudonym of James Milne, born 1981 in Christchurch, New Zealand. James has already established ...
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[Competition] Win a copy of Lisa Hannigan’s album!
Lisa Hannigan’ s debut album, Sea Sew , has seen universal critical acclaim and got her a nomination in this year’s Mercury Music Prize. With her set to play a special evening at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday night, we’ve been give 5 copies of her album to give away ...
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The Moi Non Plus – The Moi Non Plus
The Moi Non Plus , a Guitar/Drums duo from Amsterdam, certainly do know how make a lot of noise. There is good noise, and bad noise however, you can’t just turn up your amps, thrash about on the drums and expect it to be called genius. In the way of many duos, such as the ever-mentioned ...
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The Young Republic – Balletesque
One of my biggest regrets is that I took up a woodwind instead of stringed instrument. At the time, of course, the demure, ‘put your lips together and blow’ flute seemed like the right choice, but years later I always wish I’d make my parents stick it out and listen to the sound of a ...
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The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
The Flaming Lips pretty much reached their ultimate sticking-place, artistically, with The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots : two records of rubbery, crooning, mostly yellow-streaked pop music, with a good few weird divergences (more so on Yoshimi than on the ...
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On Song :: The Miserable Rich
The Miserable Rich released their latest EP Covers this week via the excellent Humble Soul label. The five piece, featuring members of The Leisure Society and Shoreline recently answered are probing questions about what’s causing their ears to prick up at the moment. One of the most ...
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Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder
This unholy coming together was rumoured for nearly three years on various forums and metal sites: the union as Shrinebuilder of four hugely influential scene overlords – Scott ‘Wino’ Wienrich (The Obsessed, St. Vitus amongst about nine others), Al Cisneros (Sleep, OM), Scott Kelly ...
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