Arctic Monkeys join R&L bill

ARCTIC Monkeys have joined Blink-182 as headliners of this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals in August.

The performance will be a festival exclusive for England and Wales from Sheffield's finest.

The R&L organisers have also added a load more names to the bill with the Courteeners, The 1975, You Me At Six and SBTRKT.

Also playing over the August bank holiday weekend will be Warpaint, Netsky, Annie Mac, Royal Blood, Hozier, Architects, Issues, Pusha T and Krept & Konan.

Architects vocalist Sam Carter said: "Reading Festival was a huge part of our musical upbringing and it was the first festival that any of  us attended.

"It’s an honour to be part of such a huge and prestigious festival - August can’t come soon enough!"

For more information - including ticketing details - visit readingfestival.com or leedsfestival.com

Disclosure disclose details of debut

AFTER storming the UK charts with latest single ‘White Noise' - featuring AlunaGeorge’ – Disclosure have announced details of their forthcoming debut album.

Settle will be released on June 3rd via PMR records, which is also home to Jessie Ware and Julio Bashmore.
 
Leading the charge into the album is the single ‘You & Me’ featuring Eliza Doolittle. It will receive its unveiling to the world on Friday night on Annie Mac's Radio 1 show and will be available to buy on iTunes from April 28th.
 Pre order the forthcoming album exclusively from www.disclosureofficial.com

New tracks on Jessie Ware re-release

AFTER a sparkling year, Jessie Ware is to re-release debut album Devotion with four bonus tracks.

Out on April 15, it includes two previously unheard cut including Imagine It Was Us, which was premiered on Annie Mac's Radio 1 show in the UK last week.

Teaming up again with album collaborator Julio Bashmore, Imagine It Was Us has one eye firmly on the dancefloor while retaining the sultry soulfulness that Jessie’s voice has garnered so much praise for.

Devotion entered straight in to the Top 5 upon release in August of last year, and has since gone on to be shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, as well as settling comfortably in to the upper ends of many ‘Albums of the Year’ lists in December. 

Jessie also picked up nominations at this year’s Brit Awards, getting the nod for both ‘British Breakthrough Act’ and ‘British Female Solo Artist’. She is approaching the end of a sold-out UK tour, and will be embarking on a string of dates in Europe and the US in the coming months.

You can listen to the track Imagine It Was Us below:

LULS release flipside to single

HOTLY-tipped London trio LULS have unveiled a new single flipside to their track Never Let It Go.

Sympathy Or Love is  a spirited ballad showcasing a softer aspect of the band's sound while retaining their signature knack for a soaring, anthemic chorus and enveloping wall of dynamics. 

LULS introduced themselves at the end of last year with the art-rock anthemics of debut single ‘Swing Low/Young’.

 
Following an end of year that saw them tour support Crystal Castles on their UK tour, play a sold out New Year's eve show at Koko alongside Peace and win the endorsement of Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Mary-Anne Hobbs and John Kennedy among others on radio, LULS now enter 2013 full steam ahead with a new double A side single. 

The band has also announced a UK tour, including a number of dates supporting Theme Park. The full tour is

04.03  London               Shacklewell Arms (free entry)
06.03  Nottingham        Spanky Van Dyke's
07.03  Leeds                  A Nation Of Shopkeepers
08.03  Sheffield             Bowery
09.03  Cambridge         Portland Arms
11.03  Bristol                  Louisiana (supporting Theme Park)
12.03  Southampton     Joiners (supporting Theme Park)
13.03  Brighton              The Haunt (supporting Theme Park)
14.03  London               Heaven (supporting Theme Park)
15.03  Manchester        Ruby Lounge (supporting Theme Park)
16.03  Newcastle           The Cluny (supporting Theme Park)

You can hear the new track below or to find out more about the band, visit lulsofficial.tumblr.com soundcloud.com/LULSofficial or facebook.com/LULSofficial

London Grammar to release debut EP

LONDON Grammar will release their debut EP ‘Metal & Dust’ on February 25th through their own imprint label, which takes the same name as the EP.

The band are Hannah Reid, Dot Major and Dan Rothman, who formed while at university together. After being holed up in the studio for most of 2012 working on their debut album, the band dropped their first offering ‘Hey Now’ on their Soundcloud in December receiving over 260,000 plays to date.    

The song garnered up a huge word-of-mouth buzz online and strong support at radio with plays from the likes of Zane Lowe, Phil Taggart & Alice Levin, Huw Stephens, Rob Da Bank, Giles Peterson and Annie Mac to name a few.

The forthcoming EP, features four tracks ‘Metal & Dust’, Hey Now’, ‘Darling Are You Gonna Leave Me’ and ‘Hey Now’ (Dot Major remix) and is the first official release from the London trio.  

‘Metal & Dust’ received its first play last night on Radio 1 as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record’.

London Grammar will be performing a sold out headline London show at Electrowerkz on March 27th.

Pre-order Metal & Dust 7” from London Grammar

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