Labels
The Young and Lost Club
To us boarding school seems like a place for cold showers, miserable matrons and something called 'prep'. It's Enid Blyton or boy wizards. Not so for Nadia Dahlawi and Sara Jade, otherwise known as The Young and Lost Club. Read on »
Paradise Vendors: Compilation Preorder
Paradise Vendors and Italian Beach babes have announced details of their compilation featuring UK bands who play music fast, loud and well. Go and buy it for only £8. Read on »
Split Tapes
In the first four months of 2009 Tape manufacturer TDK sold one million tapes and people started talking about a 'tape resurgence'. Stuff that, says Emilie Joy, we're just looking forward to the music. In 2010 Split Tapes will release songs by Rapid Youth, Bipolar Bear, Pink Priest and many more. Read on »
Princeton Boy: Jodie & Victor
In another of our label profiles Emilie Joy talks to Jodie&Victor. Jodie is a dude, runs the label on his own and managed to pick a winner first time. Princeton's 'Calypso Gold' is out this week. If you haven't heard them you could do worse than escape the cold, take an old fashioned chance and get one for yourself. Read on »
Just For The Hell of It
Doing nothing to reverse the stereotype that everybody in Portland is in a band, has as at least one side-project and a label or some kind of boutique clothing line is Hendrik DeHerder, the man running Just for The Hell of It Records. 'Yeah I also play in the band Little Claw and have toured/ recorded with the band Tyvek he admits. 'But I'm originally from Detroit....' 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.
