Bands
Now Booking: Active Child
Pat Grossi will be in the UK supporting White Lies next year. Listen to the big hit 'I'm Your Church at Night' featuring a video that's narrative has love and bread (I'm won over at just the thought) and get down early to catch him at all these dates in February. Read on »
Breathe Out
We've been listening to little bits of Breathe Out (4 lads from London) here and there this year thanks to a regularly updated blog but none have struck us quite so much as 'Ride The Waves', part of a double A side released online' this October. Read on »
Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The One
Taking the breathy cuteness of the world's indie-est genre (only Stuart Murdoch worked the fragile boy thing more and that was blimmin' years ago) and a good dollop of synthy sauce they're writing songs that rollick along rather than flop in the corner like wet blankets.
Read on »Harrys Gym
Listen up Swedophiles, your favourite country is so over. Well, for the next 4 minutes at least because we're listening to Harrys Gym, one of Norway's best exports Read on »
Roman Photos - Decline
Maybe it's because I'm looking at a white city but this new track from Roman Photos has a beautiful wintery quality. We love the soft vocal like a great big cashmere jumper (in black, of course... this doesn't shed all that motorik bleakness). Read on »
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One Thing: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
We're kicking off a brand new series here at Neu!. Having spent the best part of the morning stumbling over names, we've finally settled on "One Thing", for that's what it is: a bunch of bands telling us the one thing they think everyone should know about them. A sort of mission statement, if you will.
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Beck’s Launch Green Box Project
The Green Box Project will help fund a total of 1,000 pieces of independent art.
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Air France: It Feels Good To Be Around You
You just swan off for three years, then you come marching back and expect us to take you back with open arms? Who do you think you are? Oh. Well. Go on then.
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Loney Dear: What Have I Become
Some days we feel that we could add 'Swedish' as a legitimate menu bar item on Neu and be done with it, but then with tracks as good as this offering from Loney Dear to catch up on, who could blame us.
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Field Day: Times & Planner
You'll catch us being more than a bit obsessed with the tombola in Victoria Park on Saturday, but otherwise we might be watching everyone from Wild Beasts through to Star Slinger and Electrelane.
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One Thing: Pure X
We're kicking off a brand new series here at Neu!. Having spent the best part of the morning stumbling over names, we've finally settled on "One Thing", for that's what it is: a bunch of bands telling us the one thing they think everyone should know about them. A sort of mission statement, if you will.
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MGMT Curate LateNightTales, Cover Bauhaus
Do you ever forget MGMT exist? We're hardly short of bands who sound More Than A Bit Like the unicorn licking duo, but seems there's activity in the offing with the band set to curate the latest LateNightTales compilation.
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Watch: Young Man Reveals Debut Details, New Video
Colin Caulfield will release the debut album for his new "concept project" Young Man this autumn; 'Ideas Of Distance' is due out on 27th September, via Frenchkiss Records.
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jj: We Can’t Stop (Feat. Ne-Yo)
As part of the Adult Swim Singles Program, Ne-Yo sent over a new, original song which was then sent on to jj to play with. The result is 'We Can't Stop' - which you can check out here.
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Music Math: Modeselekor + Thom Yorke = This (& Shipwreck)
German duo Modeselektor are lucky types. They don't get to boast just one Thom Yorke collaboration on their forthcoming album 'Monkeytown' - they get two.
