Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have revealed details of their new album, Mettavolution, released by Rubyworks / BMG on 26 April, and a full European tour that includes dates at Dublin Olympia Theatre and London Roundhouse.
LA-born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist shey baba has announced the details of his masterful debut album ‘Requiem’, which will be released May 10th on Virgin EMI.
“It turns out with a tour the size of Ed’s you get a lot of days off, so I used that time on the road to rehearse new songs with the band, get in some studios and see what happened. As a result, parts of this album were recorded in Slane, South Shields, Berlin and the amazing La Frette Studios just outside Paris where Nick Cave and Arctic Monkeys have recorded.”
“‘My Songs’ is my life in songs. Some of them reconstructed, some of them refitted, some of them reframed, but all of them with a contemporary focus.”
Following the announcement of their long-awaited third album, “The Ceiling”, Birmingham dream-pop trio JAWS have shared a new single from the record entitled “Do You Remember”.
“What happens when Tunde and I get in the studio is, we just drift off – we don’t ever row!” says Paul. “There’s no shouting or throwing things. In fact we only ever had one argument – but it lasted 20 years!”
“I chose the music that I thought would lend itself to solo piano, they were not chosen as part of a greatest hits exercise. I learnt a lot about the songs.”
“We did a gig in Hong Kong, in a big family restaurant and about 500 kids from the suburbs of Hong Kong went absolutely insane and just tore up this restaurant.”
MARINA is an award-winning, platinum-selling artist. Revered since her breakthrough in 2009, she has released three UK Top 10 albums including Gold certified ‘The Family Jewels’ (2010) and ‘Electra Heart’ (2012) which debuted at Number 1 on the UK’s Official Charts.
“Palace are one of those great bands who slot into your life like a perfectly fitted puzzle piece… This is good music: free from any constraints, hype, trendiness’ – Noisey