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LCD Soundsystem have announced a huge one-off gig in Ireland for next summer.The band shared a poster on their Instagram announcing a show at Malahide Castle, just a few miles north of Dublin, on June 26. They will be topping a stacked bill which will also feature IDLES, Young Fathers and Shit Robot.Tickets will go on sale on Ticketmaster.ie on Friday (December 1) – buy yours here.LCD Soundsystem recently collaborated with the former for their recent single ‘Dancer’ and the two bands had played a number of dates together in the US earlier this year.Speaking to NME last month, Talbot explained how he approached Murphy and Whang to provide the vocals after an earlier version of the song featuring Bowen guitarist Lee Kiernan “couldn’t really cut it”.“If you don’t ask, you don’t get,” said Talbot.

IDLES have returned with new single ‘Dancer’ featuring James Murphy and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, as well as revealing details of fifth album ‘TANGK’. Check it out below, along with our interview with frontman Joe Talbot.The news comes after the band played a raucous secret show at London’s Village Underground last night (Tuesday October 17), where they performed under the name ‘TANGK’ to a mosh-ready sold out crowd and previewed new songs ‘Gratitude’ and ‘Dancer’ in a career-spanning set.Due for release on February 16 via Partisan Records, the 11-track ‘TANGK’ was produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), Kenny Beats (Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benee) and IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen.

Idles have shared the official video for their track ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ – watch below.The song appears on the Bristol punk band’s fourth studio album ‘Crawler’, which was released last November.Arriving today (August 4), the new visuals for the cut were directed by Charlotte Gosch and Idles guitarist Lee Kiernan.The clip follows a pair of kids who come across a bizarre, ritualistic gathering in the desert. We see a group of mysterious people donning masks and all-black costumes as they pass around pink rocks in a choreographed fashion.Towards the end, the children end up being surrounded by the figures while the unusual act continues to unfold around them.“The initial idea of the video was to try and visualise the monotony hell of having to work to survive and how the ‘machine’ eventually engulfs you and strips you of your freedoms,” Gosch and Kiernan explained in a joint statement.“But we wanted to achieve this in a metaphorical way that kept the meaning as open as possible.

IDLES are a band who know how to get a message across, and there was one clear message to O2 Victoria Warehouse in Old Trafford - love each other.

IDLES have shared the unsettling new video for their song ‘When The Lights Come On’ – you can check out the clip below.The song is taken from the Bristol band’s fourth album ‘Crawler’, which was released last month.Directed and edited by IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan and written by frontman Joe Talbot, the video for ‘When The Lights Come On’ stars Heavy Lungs’ George Garratt.Garratt is seen in the black-and-white clip riding a bicycle at night while wearing spike-pronged body armour and sunglasses – footage of which is interspersed with clips of him dancing topless in the street and falling over in slow motion.You can watch IDLES’ video for ‘When The Lights Come On’ below.“When the lights come on.

IDLES have shared the video for their abrasive new single ‘Car Crash’, the latest track to be taken from their upcoming album ‘CRAWLER’.The Bristol band will release their fourth album next week (November 12), just over a year since the release of its predecessor, 2020’s ‘Ultra Mono’.The ‘Car Crash’ video features clips of car crashes from old films, edited together as one. It was created by Matthew Cusick and edited by the band’s guitarist Lee Kiernan.

FIRST MOSH AFTER COVID, a new documentary tracking COVID-19‘s impact on the music industry.The film, which has been created by director Tom Dream, is about “the resilience of the DIY music industry in this country” and is expected to be released later this year.The new four-minute teaser trailer for the documentary features, among others, IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan, Wu-Lu, Che Lingo and more.

IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan has shed more light on the band’s progress on their next album in a new interview, saying they have “lots of ideas” for the follow-up to ‘Ultra Mono’ and that there are “30 songs on the table”.Earlier this week, frontman Joe Talbot revealed IDLES were already working on their next record, following the release of ‘Ultra Mono’ in September.In an interview at virtual guitar show Guitar.com Live, broadcast October 3, Kiernan also said that work had already begun on the new album.

LIFE drummer Stewart Baxter has launched a new mental health podcast called Keep Talking, with the first episode out now.New instalments will arrive weekly and will find the musician chatting to fellow artists about “life, art and everything in between”.