May 15th, 2020

Fontaines D.C. have covered The Jesus And Mary Chain‘s Darklands for Radio X’s ‘Phone Covers’ series.

Laura Marling has announced a ticketed, live streamed show from the Union Chapel in London next month.

Will Toledo has heard it all before about productivity, having released a vast amount of material as Car Seat Headrest before and after getting a label deal in 2015.

It’s a catalogue which only a few could say they’re completely familiar with, but if you like you can probably skip straight to Teens Of Denial, the album on which his complicated lo-fi rock finally broke out from its chatboard niche.

The naïve might’ve advised the Virginian to let the critical acclaim stick a little, but this being the 21st century, staying still is poison to many artists. Speaking about the thought process behind Making A Door Less Open, Toldeo revealed: ‘I didn’t have any concrete ideas, beyond something that did not sound like Teens of Denial.’

As if to emphasise the deliberate break with any usable past, in recent promotional work he’s been pictured wearing a gas mask. Odd enough, but this veiled character is also now officially an alter ego called Trait, the new identity conceived via the once jokey EDM side project 1 Trait Danger and now being used as the accelerant to hotwire a radical change in direction. If repetition was never going to be a thing, then Trait, the unreal boy, has gleefully broken the CSH mould.

Green Man has joined the long list of UK festivals which have been forced to cancel their plans for 2020.

Biffy Clyro‘s latest single Tiny Indoor Fireworks has been launched by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 – whose virtual Big Weekend UK 2020 they’ll be a part of between May 22nd-24th.

Charli XCX has released her in-isolation album ‘how i’m feeling now’ today – have a listen on New Music Friday.