July 28th, 2010

She Fell In Love With Silence is the second single to be taken from self-titled debut album from LOSTBOY! A.K.A JIM KERR, the musical alter-ego of the legendary Simple Minds singer/songwriter. It is released in the UK & Ireland as a digital download on 15th August 2010 on earMUSIC, the international pop rock label of Edel, distributed by Absolute via Universal.

The Jim Jones Revue tearing it up in New York City !

Crammed in to a hot and sweaty mess of a room in the basement of NYC’s Webster Hall, our friends at Baeble Music taped Tokio Police Club whirling through songs new and old before a happy gathering of friends and fans. It’s as endearing and youthful of a performance as we’ve seen from these baby faced Canucks…one that lets you know Tokyo Police Club have arrived on the door step of bigger and better things. Would you expect anything less from the champs? Watch the exclusive performance, as well as Baeble’s interview with the band.

Watertower Music is excited to announce the August 24 release of the soundtrack to the upcoming film “Going The Distance” on CD and digital formats. The soundtrack features new music from The Boxer Rebellion and The Airborne Toxic Event, and also boasts a great mix of indie-rock tastemakers such as Cat Power, Band of Skulls, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Passion Pit, intermingled with music from The Cure, The Pretenders and The Replacements, among others.

We are less than two months away from Manic Street Preachers’ next album – what will be their 10th full-length studio release. Postcards From a Young Man will hit the shelves on September 20, and the first taster, It’s Not War – Just the End of Love (due for release a week earlier), has already got the tails of devoted fans wagging in anticipation.

Small But Massive…

Read it again. That’s Glasgowbury. Not to be confused with Michael Eavis’ Worthy Farm extravaganza – this is Glasgowbury, and it’s got nothing to do with anything in Scotland. Glasgowbury is Northern Ireland’s premier independent festival which showcases almost universally home-grown talent.

As the brainchild of Irish singer-songwriter Paddy Glasgow (now the name makes sense!) the non-profit event has gone from strength to strength. Starting in his back garden with a hundred people in attendance, this year it shouted “Happy tenth birthday!” from the top of the Sperrin mountains to thousands of music lovers.

Our latest Soundbites sees Carl Barat discussing the secrets behind The Libertines reconciliation, yet more Neil Young albums are set to be unleashed, one of this year’s Mercury Prize hopefuls talk of their nomination, while U2 sort out one of those pesky, interfering football teams. We also look at an unlikely online director for Arcade Fire, another UK festival confirms it’s line-up and there’s news of a new home for next year’s Brit Awards.