New music on the way from AlunaGeorge

ALUNAGEORGE will release their much-anticipated debut album Body Music on July 29th.

Ahead of the launch, the duo has unveiled Bad Idea, the b-side to their new You Know You Like It EP.

And the band - Londoners Aluna Francis and George Reid - are also taking their brand of futuristic RnB on the road with dates across the UK in October and Europe in November.

For more details on the tours visit www.alunageorge.com and check out Bad Idea below.

Debut album details from AlunaGeorge

ALUNAGEORGE have announced details of their eagerly awaited debut album Body Music, out on Island Records on July 29th.

It has been a year since the group - Aluna Francis and producer George Reid - released DIY, which clocked up more than 2million views online.

Since then they've been crowned the most blogged artist of 2012, they sold out a European tour, performed at Moschino’s catwalk show during London Fashion Week and made the top three for both last year’s prestigious BRITS Critics Choice Award and the BBCs Sound of 2013.

Aluna has also collaborated with Disclosure on their UK number two hit White Noise.
 
Body Music drops alongside a new ‘You Know You Like It’ EP on July 28th which includes the refreshed single and the B-side, Bad Idea. The pair are also putting the finishing touches to a brand new video which drops in the coming weeks.

You can listen to You Know You Like It from Body Music below.

New additions to Reading and Leeds

A HOST of new acts have been added to the bill for this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals.

Ragga metallers Skindred, Lower Than Atlantis, We Are The In Crowd and Bury Tomorrow all join the line-ups for the Main Stage.

Frightened  Rabbit, FIDLAR, Kodaline, Tribes and AlunaGeorge have meanwhile been added to play the NME/Radio 1 stage.

As well as a host of new artists on the Radio 1 dance stage, details of the New Rock Stage have been announced with Enter Shikari unveiling their alter-ego Shikari Sound System. Funeral For A Friend and Gallows will also play the stage.

Other artists added to the bill across the weekend include Fenech-Soler, Alkaline Trio, King Prawn, And So I Watch You From Afar, Chvrches, British Sea Power, Tim Burgess, Spector, The Jim Jones Review, and loads more.

The festival, which runs across the two sites from 23rd to 25th August is headlined by Green Day, Eminem and Biffy Clyro, with System of a Down, Chase and Status, Nine Inch Nails, Fall Out Boy, Foals and Deftones also due to play.

For a full line up and ticketing details, visit www.readingfestival.com or www.leedsfestival.com

New track from AlunaGeorge out soon

ALUNAGEORGE have rapidly established themselves as one of the UK’s brightest prospects, and their latest offering will arrive in the form of ‘Attracting Flies’ released on March 10th via Island Records.
 
Amid a flurry of hyped shows and putting the finishing touches to their highly anticipated debut album Body Music, due on July 1st, the duo have been picking up fans left, right and centre. 

Alongside their own incredible achievements AlunaGeorge’s recent collaboration with Disclosure on ‘White Noise’ quickly racked up over a million plays online and reached number two in the UK charts. 

Aluna will perform the song live for the first time with Disclosure at their sold out warehouse party in London on March 8th.
 
Also nominated for the prestigious BRITs Critic’s Choice Award, another accolade to add to their number two spot in BBC’s Sound of 2013 poll, and their achievement of being the UK’s most blogged about artist at the close of 2012. 

AlunaGeorge recently played yet another sold out show, at London’s XOYO, and only a handful of tickets to their biggest London headline show to date, at Electric Brixton on June 20th remain.

'Attracting Flies' recently got its first play as Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Record',and the track is now available on the band's Soundcloud- soundcloud.com/alunageorge
 
Esteemed director Emil Nava provides the music video taking us through an urban fairytale, remixers include Billboard Hot 100 viral sensation Baauer, LuckyMe’s S-Type and more.

For more information visit alunageorge.com, facebook.com/alunageorge or twitter.com/alunageorge