Indie: Last News

Reverend & The Makers frontman Jon McClure is offering free virtual gigs to fans who will be alone on Christmas Day.The Sheffield musician announced the Zoom show on Twitter earlier this week (December 13) following the success of last year’s festive broadcast.“I don’t like the idea that people will be alone at this time of year,” McClure explained in the video. “Especially during a pandemic.”Fans can nominate themselves or someone else to be in the select online audience by replying to the post.

Best Coast have teamed up with The Linda Lindas on their new track ‘Leading’.The song will be a bonus track on the forthcoming deluxe release of Bethany Cosentino and co.’s 2020 album ‘Always Tomorrow’, which is out on January 7.The track, which you can listen to below, finds Cosentino grappling with reality as she sings: “I’m a believer in a healthy dose of pessimism/ ‘Cause expectations are just resentments waiting to happen/ But one can only take so much/ And I just think I’ve had enough.”‘Leading’ is just one of several new bonus tracks that feature on the expanded edition of the record along with ‘All Alone’, ‘Sweetness’ and ‘Birthday’ as well as a cover of Sheryl Crow’s ‘If It Makes You Happy’.“Not being able to tour and having an

Noel Gallagher has revealed that he has been approached about a musical on his life and Oasis.Speaking to comedian Matt Morgan on YouTube, Gallagher said that a musical solely about him had been suggested in the past.“The idea of a musical has been floated to me on more than one occasion,” he said. “Somebody had an idea of like a Noel Gallagher one called Everybody Is On The Run and then there was an idea for another Oasis one.”Oasis split in 2009 but discussions about a stage show based on Noel and Liam‘s rise to fame with Oasis have been in play for some time.Speaking to The Sun in 2019, Noel revealed: “The musical! People have been on to me about that for the last 10 years.

LCD Soundsystem have announced All My Friends, a sitcom based on the band that will air as part of their Holiday Special.Directed by Eric Wareheim (who also stars as LCD Soundsytem frontman James Murphy) All My Friends is a ’90s style sitcom that’ll star the likes of Macaulay Culkin, Aparna Nancherla, Jon Daly, Christine Ko and a puppet.“I’ve already conquered film, James has conquered music, but we have yet to conquer the sitcom—the HIGHEST form of art,” Wareheim said in a statement. “We’ve been working on this project for 15 years, and for this show we’re unveiling a uniquely emotional perspective of the sitcom universe for the holidays—provided by one of the greatest bands of all time and my dear friends, LCD Soundsystem.

Alt-J recently returned to the live stage for a special set – during the gig, they gave their new single ‘Get Better’ its live debut. Check it out below.Recorded at the Fender Artist Showroom in London, the performance was the first time Alt-J had performed in the capital since their 2018 gig at the Royal Albert Hall.During the set, Alt-J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton and Joe Newman performed ‘Get Better’ live for the first time.Check out footage below:The band released the track last month alongside news of a 2022 tour of the UK and Ireland.In a press release, Newman said of the track: “‘Get Better’ is the union of two songs.

Animal Collective have shared the latest single from their forthcoming ‘Time Skiffs’ album, a radiant tribute to the late, great Scott Walker, bluntly titled ‘Walker’.In an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, band member Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) said the new track was written around the time of Walker’s March 2019 passing.

Dirty Pretty Things have shared details of an anniversary gig at London’s Electric Ballroom next year.The one-off show on March 24, 2022 is being held to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the disbanded group’s debut album ‘Waterloo To Anywhere’ (2006), after plans to do so in 2020 were quashed by the COVID pandemic.Tickets for the gig go on general sale from 10am this Thursday (December 16) here.Dirty Pretty Things last released an album in 2008 with ‘Romance At Short Notice’, and also played their last live shows as a band that same year.

Sam Fender has revealed that he wants to get straight into working on his next album and that he hopes to head stateside to lay the tracks down.The singer-songwriter was speaking to NME after his second album, ‘Seventeen Going Under‘, was crowned Album Of The Year 2021 when he said that he will only take a small amount of time off at Christmas before going back into the studio.He explained that writing and recording music in itself is “chill time” for himself and his band, so once he’s had a bit of festive fun he’ll get back to the studio in the new year.“Honestly, I love it! Also, it’s better for my health,” he said of returning to the writing process.

BADBADNOTGOOD co-founder Matthew Tavares has spoken out about his departure from the band in 2019.Tavares, who played keyboard and guitar in the band, left BADBADNOTGOOD in October 2019 after he stopped touring with the group in 2017.Tavares has now spoken out on the reasons behind his departure in 2019, sharing his side of the story in a lengthy Instagram post on Friday (December 10).“I realise I’ve never really publicly talked about leaving BADBAD in anyway other than my post about it two years ago,” he began.

Coldplay pulled out of two performances over the weekend following positive COVID tests from members of their touring party.The band were due to play at the Capital Jingle Bell Ball in London on Saturday (December 11) and then appear on The Voice Of Germany last night (December 13).“We send our love to the individuals affected and wish them a swift recovery,” the band wrote in a statement posted to social media.“We’re so sorry to cancel at the last minute and apologise to everyone concerned,” the statement added.

being named as NME‘s Album Of The Year for ‘Seventeen Going Under‘, Sam Fender has now announced details of a huge London gig at Finsbury Park for summer 2022 – with some very special guests.To round off the huge success surrounding the North Shields’ singer-songwriter’s second album, Fender will be following in the footsteps of the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Queens Of The Stone Age, Pulp and Liam Gallagher by headlining Finsbury Park.The huge show on Friday July 15 will see him being joined by a hand-picked roster of Fontaines D.C., Declan McKenna, Beabadoobee and Goat Girl, with many more to be announced.“It’s the biggest gig we’ve put on so far – 45,000 tickets,” Fender told NME.

The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess and former New Order member Peter Hook have spoken out about venues that take an unfair cut of merch sales, with Burgess saying “​​the whole system needs addressing”.On Thursday (December 9), Burgess took to Twitter to pay “big respect to those venues that don’t take a percentage of a band’s merch sales”.“This isn’t about The Charlatans,” he explained. “It’s about those bands who need merch income to survive.

Jean Dawson has shared a new striking new track titled ‘MENTHOL*’, for which he teamed up with modern-day indie icon Mac DeMarco.The track opens with a grungy, fuzzed-out chord progression evocative of ‘Bleach’-era Nirvana, before a digitised drum beat and layer-stacked vocal melody whips listeners down an entirely different path.

Team Me have locked in a release date for their first album in seven years, ‘Something In The Making’, celebrating the occasion with a slinky new single titled ‘Just Another Sleepless Night In The Dark’.It’s a cruisy synthpop tune that leans heavily on the ‘synth’ element – in fact, the song stands out in Team Me’s catalogue for its complete lack of analogue instrumentation.

Bright Eyes have announced that they’ll be heading out on the road for a run of US shows next year.The band – comprised of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcot – will hit the road for a 13-date tour throughout the midwest, southeast, and east coast, starting in Minnesota on March 23 and ending in Virginia on April 10.Bright Eyes have partnered with Plus1, a nonprofit organisation that helps to unlock funding and building visibility for high-impact social and environmental justice initiatives, to give $1 from every ticket sold on the tour to the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles.Tickets go on sale tomorrow (December 10) from 10am local time – you can get them on the band’s official website.We are pleased to announce a new string of

Damon Albarn has revealed that he once considered pursuing a political career but was put off after a meeting with Tony Blair.The Blur and Gorillaz frontman recalled a conversation he had with the politician – which took place “before he became Prime Minister” in 1997 – and it left him “terrified”.“Politics is such a murky business. I would be lying if I said I hadn’t considered it when I was younger,” he told the Metro newspaper’s Guilty Pleasures column (via Contact Music).“I even went and had a strategic meeting with Tony Blair before he became Prime Minister, but that terrified me so much.

Damon Albarn showcased a host of new tracks from his solo album alongside Blur classics in Coventry last night (December 7) during his UK tour.The frontman performed a selection of cuts from ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’ at the HMV Empire including the title track, ‘The Cormorant’ and ‘Royal Morning Blue’, footage of which you can view below.He then went on to play a host of Blur classics such as ‘Beetlebum’, ‘For Tomorrow’, ‘Tender’ and ‘Girls & Boys’ before wrapping up with ‘The Universal’.

Modest Mouse have shared details of new 2022 tour dates, taking place across the US and Europe – see the full schedule below.The shows, which come on the back of the band’s recent album ‘The Golden Casket’, which came out earlier this year, begin in the United States in April and feature a slot at next year’s Just Like Heaven festival in California, headlining alongside Interpol, The Shins and M.I.A.After the mix of headline shows and festival dates in the States, the band will then head to Europe next July for two festival shows in Stockholm and at Madrid’s Mad Cool.See Modest Mouse’s new 2022 tour dates below:APRIL 202218 – Baltimore, Rams Head Live19 – Charlottesville, Ting Pavilion20 – Charlotte, Charlotte Metro Credit Union

SOPHIE‘s debut EP ‘Nothing More To Say’ is to receive a vinyl reissue, eight years after it was originally released.‘Nothing More To Say’ was first released by the Scottish indie label Huntleys + Palmers in 2013. Since the producer’s death earlier this year, prices for re-sold vinyl editions had skyrocketed.According to DJ Mag, label boss Andrew Thomson decided it was important to make more affordable copies available due to rising prices.

Superchunk are back with a new single called ‘Endless Summer’ featuring Teenage Fanclub – you can listen to it below.The track is the first preview of the American indie band’s upcoming new album, ‘Wild Loneliness’, which is their first since 2018’s ‘What A Time To Be Alive’.Set to be released next year on February 25, it’s a guest-heavy LP that features the likes of Sharon Van Etten, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Wye Oak’s Andy Stack, Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, Owen Pallett, Kelly Pratt, and Franklin Bruno.The band’s new single ‘Endless Summer’ was written on New Year’s Day 2020 and sees Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub provide harmonies.Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan said of the track: “‘Endless Summer’ was written on

Mitski has shared a new single called ‘Heat Lightning’ – listen below.The song will appear on the US singer-songwriter’s sixth album ‘Laurel Hell’, which is set to arrive on February 4 via Dead Oceans.“I needed songs that could help me forgive both others and myself…I needed to create this space mostly for myself where I sat in that grey area,” Mitski explained of ‘Heat Lightning’, a cut that started out on the piano.However, the single eventually transformed into a hypnotic R&B-influenced number that is an ode to insomnia and the “sleeping eyelid of the sky”.“And there’s nothing I can do/ Not much I can change/ Can I give it up to you/ Would that be okay?/ There’s nothing I can do/ Not much I can change/ I give it up to you/ I surrender,”